The MayWorks 2026 Festival Calendar booklet and poster will be out soon. Here is a list of events for this year’s festival. Click to see details.

28 April: National Day of Mourning
Gather at 11:00 am at the Union Centre (275 Broadway Ave.) 
Ceremony at the Workers Memorial (Memorial Park) at Noon

Check out the Strike! Mural at Broadway and Garry

1 May: International Workers Day Rally and March 
Gather 5:30 pm at City Hall (510 Main St.) and March to Old Market Square

* Viewable during the festival: BANGON! EP1- "Strum For The Struggle"
Via link 

5 May: 6Th Annual MMIWG2(S)+ Walk for Justice
5:30 pm at Oodena Circle (The Forks Market)

8 May: May Day to Mother's Day - Working Moms in Manitoba
8:00 - 9:00 am Listen to Dialogues: Gravel Roads to City Lights live at CKUW 95.5 FM or at ckuw.ca

9 May: Winnipeg Mandolin Orchestra: Across Time and Cultures
7:30 at the Ukrainian Labour Temple (591 Pritchard Ave.)

22 May: Follow the Money on Food Cost Inflation
8:00 - 9:00 am Listen to Dialogues: Gravel Roads to City Lights live at CKUW 95.5 FM or at ckuw.ca

22 May, 7:00 pm: “Earth’s Greatest Enemy” screening and conversation with filmmaker Abby Martin
7:00 pm at Dave Barber Cinematheque (100 Arthur St.) 

23 May: Let Cuba Live! with guest speaker Isaac Saney
7:00 pm at the Ukrainian Labour Temple (591 Pritchard Ave.)

24 May: A Heritage of Relentless Struggle: The Radical Jewish Tradition with speaker Janey Stone
2:00 - 3:30 pm at the Union Centre (7th Floor, 275 Broadway Ave.)

Check out the Strike! Mural at Broadway and Garry

30 May: 3rd Annual North End Neighbours Culture Fest
12:00 - 4:00 pm at the Ukrainian Labour Temple (591 Pritchard Ave.)

30 & 31 May: Workers of the World Unite: Tours of the Historic Ukrainian Labour Temple part of Doors Open 
11:00 - 4:00 pm at the Ukrainian Labour Temple (591 Pritchard Ave.)

30 & 31 May: Ivan Franko Museum Tours
Noon - 4:00 pm at the Ukrainian Labour Temple (591 Pritchard Ave.)

31 May: Celtic Session at the Barn Hammer 
2:30 – 5:30 at Barn Hammer Brewing Company (595 Wall St.)

7 June: “Confronting the Resurgent Right” – Editor Miriam Edelson – book launch
Doors open at 4:30 pm, launch begins at 5:00 at Whodunit Books (163 Lilac St.)

MAYWORKS 2025: Celebrating Labour and the Arts

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April 24 - 7pm
Warsaw Ghetto Memorial & Candle Lighting in Memory of the Six Million
Remarks, conversation and songs 
Ukrainian Labour Temple - 591 Pritchard Ave. (at McGregor)

April 28 - 11:30pm
National Day of Mourning 
SAFE Workers of Tomorrow Leaders' Walk & Day of Mourning Ceremony
Union Centre - 275 Broadway Ave. to Memorial Park

May 1 - 5:30pm
International Workers' Day: Rally and March
For workers' rights!  For sovereignty!  For Palestine!
Gather at City Hall - 510 Main St.

May 3 - 7pm
Red Flags: A Reckoning with Communism for the Future of the Left by David Camfield 
Book launch featuring special guests: Tami Gadir & Andrew Loewen
McNally Robinson Booksellers Atrium - Grant Park Mall
And livestreamed on YouTube

May 4 - 10:30am
Jews and Gentiles in Film and Literature
Last lecture of a series: based on the 2013 Polish movie Ida
To register for this Zoom event, etransfer $25 to hdshorr@shaw.ca
For more information: ujpowinnipeg.com

May 10 - 7:30pm
Winnipeg Mandolin Orchestra Annual Concert
Tickets: $20 from Eventbrite, $25 at the door
Ukrainian Labour Temple - 591 Pritchard Ave. (at McGregor)

May 17 - Noon
77th Nakba Commemoration and March
Legislative Building - 450 Broadway Ave.

May 17 - 7pm
A Celebration of Cuba's Achievements in Workers' Rights and in the Arts
Performances, music and displays
Ukrainian Labour Temple - 591 Pritchard Ave. (at McGregor)

May 20 - 7pm
Invisible Doctrine - Watch Party
Film watch party and discussion.
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/dmG4rAu0RhCq2toaXfAldw 

May 24 - 1pm
Wages for Schoolwork by Shiv Raveendrabose 
Book launch of the latest addition to the Semaphore Series.
ARP Books Office - 205-70 Arthur St.

May 24 - Noon to 4pm
"North End Neighbours" Culture Fest 2025
Multicultural entertainment, food and displays.
Ukrainian Labour Temple - 591 Pritchard Ave. (at McGregor)

May 24 & 25 - Noon to 4pm
Historic Ukrainian Labour Temple - A Look Inside
Part of Doors Open - Celebrating the stories our buildings tell
Ukrainian Labour Temple - 591 Pritchard Ave.

May 25 - 2pm
Uphill on the Hill and From Gaza to Cuba
Screening of Cuban documentary and Short film
West End Commons - 641 St. Matthews Ave. (entrance on McGee St.)

May 30 - 7pm
Gas Lit Nation - Media & Democracy for Peace Workshop
Follow-up to the Watch Party of The Invisible Doctrine
Register at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HLDJMZQ

May 31 - 6pm & 8:30pm
Dance Down Tha Wall 20th Anniversary Dinner & Dance Party for Palestine
Featuring DJ Hunnicutt (& others)
An evening of dinner and #DDTW20 'Get Down for Gaza' dancing!
Ukrainian Labour Temple - 591 Pritchard Ave. (at McGregor)

MAYWORKS 2024

April 26 - 11:00 am
National Day of Mourning
SAFE Workers of Tomorrow – Leaders’ Walk & Day of Mourning Ceremony
Gather at Union Centre (Broadway at Smith Street) to Memorial Park 

May 1 - 5:30 pm
International Workers' Day
May Day Rally and March
Workers Stand With Palestine
City Hall

May 4 - 12:00 noon
Workers Unite for Palestine!  Solidarity not Silence
Rally and March
City Hall 

May 4 - 2:00 pm
105 And Rising: Poetry Reading by Ron Romanowski
Henderson Branch Library 

May 7 - 7:00 pm
Warsaw Ghetto Memorial: Looking at Resistance Through the Lens of Family History
Songs of the Ghettos and Partisans 
With guest speaker Cecil Rosner
Ukrainian Labour Temple 

May 8 - 7:00 pm
Organizing for Just Transition
Featuring Kevin MacKay 
Zoom

May 11 - 7:30 pm
Winnipeg Mandolin Orchestra 
Special Guest, French Canadian singer/accordionist Anne-Marie Williot
Ukrainian Labour Temple  

May 18 - 6:00 - 7:30 pm
On to Ottawa Peace Caravan
CUPE Training Centre, 7th Floor Union Centre

May 19 - 2:00 – 5:00 pm
Strawberry and Chocolate/Fresa y chocolate 
West End Commons 

May 25 & May 26 - 12:00 noon – 5:00 pm
Doors Open at The Labour Temple
Ukrainian Labour Temple 

May 25 & May 26 - 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Ivan Franko Museum Tours
Inside the Ukrainian Labour Temple 

May 25 - 12:00 noon - 5:00 pm
North End Neighbours Culture Fest
Ukrainian Labour Temple 

May 26 - 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Rally Against the U.S. Blockade of Cuba
River & Osborne