Mayworks: Festival of Working People & The Arts To June 1 various locations mayworksfestival.ca Could art help build solidarity between workers and their allies? How might revisiting local anti-racist work change how we think about climate injustice? How do you imagine a better world? For Sébastien Labelle, these questions aren’t hypothetical, nor are they unrelated. […]
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Review: KAMP
Halifax artists Garry Williams and Jamie Bradley have undertaken a very ambitious project with KAMP. It is an original full-length musical about gay men in a Nazi concentration camp who, despite imminent danger, or in some ways perhaps because of it, create a musical revue in their barrack. It is rich terrain for a story […]
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Mayworks paints a picture of worker’s rights
Mayworks Festival of Working People & The Arts various locations April 28-May 10 free-$25 (festival pass $50) Over 130 years after workers protested for an eight-hour workday at Chicago’s Haymarket Riot, the Mayworks Festival of Working People & The Arts is using art instead of picket signs to push for fair working conditions. While Mayworks […]
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Crazy Sexxxy Cool
It’d be easy to think phone sex, like encyclopedias and proper spelling, faded rapidly from existence with the advent of the internet. After all, why pay for something you can easily get for free? “I thought the same thing,” says Halifax playwright Lee-Anne Poole, “but it’s surprisingly popular.” Poole would know. Her play Talk Sexxxy: the not so sexy […]