Join the Manitoba-Cuba Solidarity Committee for an evening celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution. The evening will feature a panel discussion examining Cuba’s achievements and the challenges it is facing. Also featured will be Cuban poetry from the five decades.

1L04 Lockhart Hall, University of Winnipeg

7:00 p.m.

For further information, call Diane at 783-9380. Admission by contribution; proceeds will go to support the Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba this July.

Hear the Maria Dunn interview on CJOB from Saturday, April 18 at www.cjob.com
Go to the “audio vault” and enter April 18, 6:45 a.m.

The video ballad “GWG: Piece by Piece” is a 60-minute musical multimedia piece depicting the experiences of immigrant women who worked in Edmonton’s GWG clothing factory over its 93 year history.

The plant, founded in 1911 and closed in 2004, was a microcosm of the immigration patterns in the city. Traditionally, it was a female-dominated workplace; in the post WWII period, many immigrant women worked at GWG because it did not require a strong knowledge of English.

The story will ring true with those in Winnipeg which also was once home to a GWG plant.

Some stories of pioneer women are available, but very little has been produced by or about women who worked in factories such as the GWG garment manufacturing plant.

With songs written by songwriter Maria Dunn, audiovisual materials filmed and edited by Don Bouzek of Edmonton’s Ground Zero Productions and research interviews and archival materials provided by historian Catherine C. Cole, the performance will feature video footage of women who worked at GWG interwoven with songs inspired by their stories.

Maria Dunn will be joined by Shannon Johnson on violin and Sharmila Mathur on sitar.

The Park Theatre, 698 Osborne
Doors: 1:30 p.m. | Show: 2:00 p.m.
Tickets: $10 available at the Workers Organizing Resource Centre, 280 Smith St., 947-2220; the Park Theatre 478-7275 and the Mondragon Bookstore, 91 Albert.

aceartinc., 290 McDermot Avenue

The University of Winnipeg’s Art History Student’s Association is currently organizing its third annual art exhibition, Bringing Home the Bacon. This year, our theme addresses the relationship between art and labour in Manitoba to commemorate the 90th Anniversary of the Winnipeg General Strike. Working in collaboration with local emerging and established artists, the exhibition’s contemporary curatorial approach is structured to highlight the importance of past labour struggles and their influence on present-day artistic practice.

Bringing Home the Bacon includes artwork by Steve Gouthro, Petra Reynolds, Crys Cole, Robert Kell, Paul Butler, Patrick Dunford, Barb Hunt, Cherie Moses, Colleen Finlayson, Noam Gonick, Rick Fisher, and Don Rice. Featuring painting, mixed-media collage, video, and sound installation, the works in this exhibition provide unique insights into the development of labour practices within Manitoba.

During the course of the exhibition, a panel discussion will be held at aceartinc., in which a number of local artists, scholars, writers, and politicians will speak to the significance of labour in Manitoba. This discussion is aimed to identify the significance of Bringing Home the Bacon in relation to the historical events of the 1919 General Strike, the development of labour laws and workers unions, the state of Manitoba’s current economic climate, and the role of Canada’s Contemporary arts community within this socio-economic context. Confirmation of the event’s date and the names of panel discussion speakers are pending.

Members of the AHSA are organizing this exhibition in order to participate in and contribute to the commemorative event of the Winnipeg General Strike. We consider it of the utmost importance that the views and opinions of Manitoba artists in relation to various labour issues are expressed. We hope you will join us in our celebration of this event.

For more information, Email: uwahsa@gmail.com

Come celebrate International Working Class Day. This year’s themes are “Organize the Unorganized” and “A Living Wage for All” both of which were raised by the Strike Committee in 1919 and remain pressing concerns for today’s activists.

Join the annual Winnipeg Labour Council march in celebration of May Day. This year will also mark the 90th Anniversary of the Winnipeg General Strike. In recognition of this the march will go past many of the sites that are part of that history.

The march will start in Point Douglas, one of Winnipeg’s oldest communities, opposite what was the Vulcan Iron Works in 1919. It will then go past Victoria Park; the site of the original Labour Temple; Hell’s Alley and the site were Mike Sokolowski was shot and killed in the charge of the NWMP.

With Ken Georgetti, President of the Canadian Labour Congress and others.

Assemble 6:00 p.m. Joe Zuken Memorial Park corner of Sutherland and Maple

May Day March route

Please join the Manitoba Federation of Labour and the Winnipeg Labour Choir for a memorial service and candlelight vigil to remember our fallen sisters and brothers.

Room 2C Union Centre, 275 Broadway Ave