Mayworks Festival: Healthcare As A Workers Right

Join us for live performance and dialogue capturing responses to the alienating and increasingly inaccessible healthcare system in Ontario. Together, we will reflect on organizing tactics and celebrate community led supports. Dinner provided.

Panel discussion
Discussing the impacts of the privatization of health care on different communities, Emma Steen, the curator of is joined by Naujawan Support Network and Toronto Indigenous Harm Reduction. 

Live Shadow Puppetry and Song
Singer-songwriter and folk musician Jesse Corrigan will perform a selection of labour songs and workers songs by Scottish musician Dick Gaughan to accompany a live shadow puppetry performance by Kristine White, an excerpt from her Mayworks Festival creation,

Catering by Masterchefman.

Accessibility: ASL Provided. Masks are required. This venue is wheelchair accessible and has gender neutral, wheelchair accessible washrooms. For any questions around accessibility, please email [email protected]

annually presents new works by a diverse range of artists, who are both workers and activists. We prioritize the participation of artists and audiences from communities facing systemic discrimination. Our programming offers bold, insightful, responses to pressing issues at the intersection of art, social justice and labour. We are actively engaged in a social dialogue that challenges the logics of capitalism, and seeks to reimagine and represent a just future.

Host or Publisher Mayworks Festival of Working People and the Arts