Radical Art Exhibit

Posted April 2nd, 2008

Featuring works by many local artists at various venues including the A-Zone at 91 Albert St and the Platform Gallery Lobby in Artspace at 100 Arthur St.

Various Venues
Free – Guided tour details to be announced

Celebrating The May Days of ‘68

Posted April 2nd, 2008

Presentations by members of the New Socialists, Winnipeg Group, and the I.W.W. Winnipeg Branch with feature film to follow.

Rudolf Rocker Cultural Centre, 91 Albert St
8:00 p.m. | Free, donations for the venue gratefully accepted

May Rights!

Posted April 2nd, 2008

A 2008 Mayworks Labour and the Arts Festival Literary Event. Poetry of mythology and revolution by Ron Romanowski, author of Sweet Talking and The Great Buffalo Republic. Songs from the Civil Rights Movement by Liliana Romanowski.

McNally Robinson Grant Park, Travel Alcove at 7:00 p.m. | FREE
For more information contact Ron at 667-6802

Canadian Anarchist History

Posted April 2nd, 2008

Presentations by Paul Burrows and Travis Tomchuk on Canadian anarchist history. Discussion to follow.

Mondragon, 91 Albert St
6:00 p.m. | FREE

RENEGADES: Canadians in the Spanish Civil War by Michael Petrou

Posted April 2nd, 2008

This book by Michael Petrou, an historian and foreign correspondent at Maclean’s magazine, tells the story of the almost 1,700 Canadians who defied Canadian law and volunteered to fight fascism in Spain between 1936 and 1939. Petrou draws on recently declassified documents from the archives of the Communist International, interviews with all surviving Canadian veterans, and visits to the Spanish battlefields and villages where they fought, lived and died. Many of the volunteers were from Manitoba, including more than 150 from Winnipeg. Renegades is published by University of British Columbia Press, in association with the Canadian War Museum. This event is part of the THIN AIR Signature Series collaboration between the Winnipeg International Writers Festival and McNally Robinson.

McNally Robinson Grant Park
7:00 p.m. | Admission: Free