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This year’s Mayworks Festival of Working People & the Arts is packed with events to fuel you up with energy, connection, and critical reflections that will help carve a path toward a better world!
The festival kicks off on May Day with the hosts of Sandy & Nora Talk Politics recording their top charting podcast before a live audience. They will be accompanied by live music performed by Palestinian-Canadian pianist John Kameel Farah.
Hot on the heels of the festival opener is an all-star hip hop concert featuring Wiki, an icon of New York’s City’s rap underground. He’ll be sharing the stage with Brooklyn’s Lord Unknown and local legends DJ Uncle Fester and Tachichi.
We’re partnering with the Atlantic International Film Festival for a one-night only screening of “Union” – the Sundance winner that documents the first successful union drive at a US-based Amazon facility.
XOSECRET presents a VR experience that takes participants through a cautionary fable that imagines Nova Scotia surrounded by rising seas resulting from climate change.
Noella Murphy‘s solo play “Flower Bed” uses humour and puppets to tell an autobiographical account of how it feels to be taken out of the “productive workforce” as a result of chronic illness. Meanwhile, Sara Coffin‘s movement choreography “Archive of Loneliness” is set to voice-messages left by a long-term care resident isolated during COVID-19.
Mayworks is no stranger to diversity with a film program composed entirely of shorts by Indigenous women in addition to a showcase of Black animators presented in partnership with AFX. In collaboration with Live Art Dance, Mayworks also zooms out for a wider look at human relations with “Altération” presented by Kira Arts.
Finally, Mayworks reprises its popular Working Class Heritage Tours of downtown Halifax, which this year will be made all the more visible by an accompanying quilted banner crafted by artists Sarah Mosher and Hannah Genosko.
The world may look bleak, but there’s no shortage of hope in the many ways we can come together and express ourselves creatively. May Day both celebrates and invokes the coming of a new dawn toward the world we desperately need.
Happy May Day!
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