Title: Winnipeg Worker Co-op Video Series Premiere

Location: Park Theatre, 698 Osborne Street

$10 tickets available at Mondragon, Organic Planet and cvwc@rocketmail.com

Host Organization: Co-op Ventures Worker Co-op

Financial support provided by Assiniboine Credit Union

The Winnipeg Worker Co-op Video Series features seven co-ops, their members and their reasons for choosing this model to explore and promote workplace democracy.

What are the joys and challenges of being a worker/owner? How were they let down by traditional workplace structures? How can this alternative business ownership model change the world? Videos include Organic Planet, Natural Cycle Courier, Mondragon, ANAK, Ram Wools, Urban Eatin’ and Enviro-Safe Cleaning.The evening will also feature performances by longtime folksinger Bobby Stahr and other local musicians.

Location: Ukrainian Labour Temple, Pritchard and McGregor

$35/person or $20/student. Table prices available by request.

Contact Sandra Gessler (770-9298), or Glenn Michalchuk (479-7026)

Mondragon (91 Albert) or the Social Planning Council at 207 Donald

Host Organization: Friends of Victoria Park

This 1900 style cabaret reminiscent of the Winnipeg General Strike era will feature a buffet supper and entertainment by magician Joe Kaufert and The Lindsay White Band. The evening will also feature an update on the progress to create a heritage site. Student projects from the Faculty of Architecture exploring what a heritage site might look like will also be on display. This exciting event is part of building a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Strike in 2019. Proceeds go to establishing a heritage site to commemorate the Strike, its importance, the early laborers and the park where they rallied.

Title: PINK RIBBONS INC.

Location: Cinematheque, Artspace Building

Host Organization: Cinematheque

Breast cancer has become the poster child of cause-related marketing campaigns. Countless people walk, run and shop for the cure. Each year, millions of dollars are raised in the name of breast cancer, but where does this money go and what does it actually achieve? Directed by Léa Pool and produced by Ravida Din, Pink Ribbons, Inc. is a feature documentary that shows how the devastating reality of breast cancer, which marketing experts have labeled a “dream cause,” has become obfuscated by a shiny, pink story of success.

Title: Mayworks Picnic for inner city youth

Location: Freight House Park

FREE event, Host Organization: Winnipeg Labour Council (942-0522 or wpglbr@mts.net)

Come join the Winnipeg Labour Council celebrate May at Freight House Park for a free picnic. All children who attend will be given a draw ticket for a chance to win a new bike.

Title: “MIKE’S BLOODY SATURDAY” General Strike Documentary Film

Location: Cinematheque, 100 Arthur Street

FREE EVENT, Hosted by: Danny Schur

Join award-winning playwright Danny Schur (the musical Srike@) for the screening of his documentary film “Mike’s Bloody Saturday” a film about the Winnipeg General Strike at Cinematheque.

Title: “MIKE’S BLOODY SATURDAY” Walking Tour

Location: City Hall Courtyard, 510 Main StreetFREE EVENT. Registration is mandatory by calling 227-1167. Hosted by: Danny Schur

Join award-winning playwright Danny Schur (the musical Strike!) as he leads you on a walking tour that examines the contradictory evidence surrounding the death of Ukrainian immigrant Mike Sokolowski on Bloody Saturday during the Winnipeg General Strike.

Title: All or Nothing a play by Bruce Sarbit

Location: Rudolf Rocker Cultural Centre. 91 Albert Street.

$12 at the door or in advance (204) 867-3908,

Host Organization: Root Sky Productions

Description: All or Nothing dramatizes the last days of Spanish philosopher, novelist, and poet Miguel de Unamuno during the period of his house arrest in Salamanca in 1936 under the fascist Franco regime. A Winnipeg Fringe Festival hit in 20ll. Remounted with Harry Nelken as Unamuno.

Host Organization: Root Sky Productions

The moving story of a fiercely independent young woman standing up for what she believes in: women’s rights and an end to war. Adapted from the 1919 autobiographical novel Aleta Dey by Manitoba writer and activist Francis Marion Beynon. Featuring Tracy Penner.