Mayworks Festival: Sambizanga (1972) + L'Mina (2025) Screening

L'Mina (2025), A film by , presented as part of Every Worker Has Equal Labour Rights. Jerada is a mining town in Morocco where coal extraction, although officially halted in 2001, continues informally to this day. L’Mina recreates the current work in informal mining pits using a set design created in collaboration with the town’s residents, who perform in their own roles.

Sambizanga (1972), A film by Sarah Maldoro, presented with U of T Community Engaged Learning Program (New College) the Centre for Caribbean Studies, and the Caribbean Solidarity Network. A poignant and revolutionary feat of political cinema, Sambizanga tells the story of the rise of Angola’s independence movement, featuring nonprofessional actors who were behind the anticolonial resistance themselves. The film traces the spark of the country’s uprising as a young woman searches for her husband who has just been arrested by Portuguese authorities. What follows is her journey from the outskirts of Luanda toward the city’s center, unfolding a compassionate and loving chronicle of the role and resilience of women in the global struggle for liberation.

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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. .

The Caribbean Solidarity Network (CSN) is an organization committed to the principles of Caribbean Liberation and Unity across the region as well as throughout the Diaspora. CSN’s platform is one rooted in a feminist, anti-imperialist, anti-colonial struggle. The history of the Caribbean peoples has always been one of freedom and self-determination. CSN offers space for the Caribbean community and invested allies to foment ideas and build collective knowledge and understanding about present and local circumstances. Learn More.

The University of Toronto New College's Community Engaged Learning is a placement-based program for students to work in social service or community sector.

Caribbean Studies at the University of Toronto is an interdisciplinary program engaging Caribbean history and society, politics and economic development, literature and thought.

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