May Day Mayworks Festival Launch

Opening with a musical performance by Parallel Play Collective. Their music is a call to action and solidarity, drawing inspiration from the revolutionary struggles of the Filipino people. Parallel Play’s performances aim to create spaces for reflection, engagement, and mobilization, bridging culture and politics to inspire change within the Filipino diaspora and beyond.

This will follow a panel discussion on raw materials, goods, capital, and workers themselves are part of a network of global supply chains where each link is integral to the system of wealth distribution shaping our living and working conditions. This panel discussion invites labour activists and organizers to address the movement of financial assets, cargo and labour, and the power we have to disrupt those supply chains. Speakers include Jody Chan (No Arms in the Arts), Mostafa Heneway (Immigrant Rights Network) and others to be announced, moderated by Moe Alqasem (Labour for Palestine)

A collaboration between Dana Prieto and Safaa Alnabelseya, And For You, Flours and Flowers, takes shape through the sharing of edible confections through the evening. The work brings into proximity distinct political and culinary histories, tracing how food can reorganize time, intimacy, and discourse, while enacting forms of relation grounded in mutuality rather than transactional individualism.

Light dinner will be served, catered by Lebanese Garden.

This venue is wheelchair accessible and has gender neutral, wheelchair accessible washrooms. For requests, please email [email protected]

Mayworks Festival is a community-based festival which annually presents new works by a diverse and broad range of artists, who are both workers and activists. The programming presents bold, insightful, responses to pressing issues at the intersection of art, social justice and labour. .

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