Welcome to MayWorks Festival of Labour and the Arts 2017.
This is the 23rd year for MayWorks. The Festival’s first year was 1994 – the 75th Anniversary of the Winnipeg General Strike. It was those anniversary celebrations that prompted a number of trade union activists to launch the MayWorks Festival as a celebration of working class struggles.

MayWorks offers a mix of events and something of interest to everyone. We have some events that are part of the calendar every year that honour the history of the Strike or unique cultural gems such as the Winnipeg Mandolin Orchestra. This year, MayWorks looks at the effects globalization: “the Good, the Bad and the Ugly”.

Events in Britain (the vote to leave the European Union) and the United States (the election of Donald Trump as President) have been part of a mass response to globalization and its effects on working people.

In this year’s Festival, we examine the struggles of working people to maintain hard fought victories and forestall defeats in the face of corporate and government push for austerity, as well as ownership and control of all the supplies of food, water, energy and production. On this note the Festival will feature some events dealing specifically with the features of globalization.

Whatever your interest we invite you to come and participate in the events that are part of this year’s MayWorks Festival of Labour and the Arts.

Glenn Michalchuk,
President
MayWorks Festival of Labour and the Arts

Joing us for the final event of MayWorks 2016…
SUNDAY, MAY 29 • 2PM
ASSOCIATION OF UNITED UKRAINIAN CANADIANS SPRING CONCERT
Ukrainian Labour Temple – AUUC Winnipegi
(Admission by donation)

The annual Spring Concert will be part of the Ukrainian Labour Temple’s participation in Doors Open. Featuring performances by: the Winnipeg Festival Choir, Winnipeg Mandolin Orchestra, AUUC dance groups, Yunist Ensemble and the School of Folk Dance.

See you there!

MAY 12-14 • 7:30PM
SALT OF THE EARTH – a play by Theatre Anywhere Productions
Rory Runnells Studio: 504-100 Arthur Street (Artspace)

One person play about William Henry Cliffe, a child labourer who left England for Winnipeg in 1911 to escape the class system. This production is a remounting of the Winnipeg Fringe Festival play written and performed by Kevin Longfield about his grandfather who was a child labourer in the Cheshire salt mines before apprenticing as a blacksmith and emigrating to Canada in 1911.

Join MayWorks for an evening of Polish Poetry
Tomorrow – Tuesday May 3 @ 7:30 pm, McNally Robinson (travel alcove)

Selections from a central European poetry read in Polish by writer Margaret Kellermann McCulloch and in English by singer Liliana Romanowski. An introduction, and selected poetry by Ron Romanowski (author of A Reader’s Guide to the Unnameable).
Refreshments will be served. Free to all!

Join us in this years MayWorks May Day March –
“Protect the Human and Natural Environments”

Come down and meet with fellow supporters to engage the discussion around this years theme – environmental stewardship and the labour movement.

Meet 12:30 @ City Hall
Including presentation of the Bruce MacKay Solidarity Award