Mayworks Festival: True North (2025) Screening + Q&A

In 1969, at Montreal’s Concordia University, a student uprising marks itself in the Black liberation movement and sheds light on the often-overlooked history of anti-Black racism in Canada. True North tells this story of systemic discrimination through archival footage and intimate interviews from former student protestors as well as the West Indians who migrated north seeking opportunity and refuge. This film is a testament to the courage and need for collectivist power.

The film will followed by a conversation with, Michèle Stephenson, the filmmaker where she will speak to her artistic practice as a Black liberation project of which True North is a crucial contribution, and elaborate on the role of narratives in our collective work towards liberation.

Presented with U of T Community Engaged Learning Program (New College) the Centre for Caribbean Studies, and the Caribbean Solidarity Network.

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. .

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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