Labour Day at WAHC: Labour Poetry Workshop with Farah Ghafoor

Name: Labour Day at WAHC: Labour Poetry Workshop with Farah Ghafoor
Start: 2025-08-28T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-08-28T21:00:00-04:00
Location: 51 Stuart Street, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Ontario L8L 1B5

Schedule

Thu Aug 28 2025 at 06:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

51 Stuart Street, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Ontario L8L 1B5 | Hamilton, ON

On August 28, award-winning poet Farah Ghafoor will be hosting a workshop at the Workers Arts & Heritage Centre as part of 2025 Labour Day programming.
Ghafoor, whose own work explores the idea of value at the intersection of capitalism, colonialism, and climate change, invites participants to consider the history and potential of labour poetry in the 21st century.
This workshop will offer a mix of close readings and creative prompts. Allowing participants the opportunity to write and share their own work. This event is free and open to all but registration is encouraged!
Based in Tkaranto (Toronto), Farah Ghafoor the author of Shadow Price (House of Anansi, 2025). Selections of her debut won the E.J. Pratt Medal and Prize in Poetry, and were finalists for the CBC Poetry Prize and the Far Horizons Award. Her work appears in magazines such as The Walrus, Brick Magazine, and The Fiddlehead, art exhibitions like Who’s Afraid of Labour Justice? and FACE/WASTE, as well as anthologies and post-secondary course curricula.