Mayworks Festival of Labour and the Arts

MayWorks Festival of Labour and the Arts is a multi-disciplinary festival that focuses on working class themes. It is held in Winnipeg every year throughout the month of May to honour and promote the many positive contributions of unions and working people in general.

Inspired by events surrounding the anniversary of the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike, MayWorks focuses on the art produced both by artists (with their depiction of the working class life) and by workers with their own interpretation of their lives and struggles.

For more information and a complete list of events please visit:

http://mayworks.org/

Mayworks Kingston 2010

The Kingston Mayworks Collective is a community collective of workers, students and artists who believe that bridging art and labour can bring powerful social change.

We seek to:

- Use art as a medium to explore and understand one's identity as a worker and experience in the workplace.

- Increase exposure to and appreciation of creative expressions of work and labour justice issues.

- Provide the space and opportunity for individuals and communities who commonly face marginalization and oppression in the workplace to explore and express their experiences in the workplace through creative means.

May Day March

May 1 is the International Day of the Worker and Edmonton unions and other progressive groups have traditionally held a march to mark the occasion, which commemorates the Haymarket Massacre in Chicago in 1886 and celebrates the social and economic achievements of the international labour movement.