Mayworks Festival: Who's Afraid of Labour Justice Panel + Performance

Mayworks Festival of Working People and the Arts

Join us for the 40th Anniversary Mayworks Festival launch.

United Steelworkers Hall

<h3>Poetry reading followed by a panel discussion on international solidarity, conservative voting and labour organizing.</h3> The evening will begin with a performace by Farah Ghafoor, an artist part of theWho’s Afraid of Labour Justice exhibition, guest curated for Mayworks Festival by Furqan Mohamed. Following the poetry reading, Hassan Husseini, Larry Savage and Charlie Simmons look to the exhibition as a point of departure to address "Who’s Afraid of Labour Justice" with an eye to the systems and obstacles that deter its practice.This event will also be an opportunity to explore 40 years of Mayworks Festival programs and pick up a "Precarity Archives" poster.Light dinner served.ASL Provided. Masks are required. This venue is wheelchair accessible and has gender neutral, wheelchair accessible washrooms. For any questions relating to accessibility, please email <a href="mailto:programming@mayworks.ca" title="mailto:programming@mayworks.ca" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">programming@mayworks.ca</a> Panelists:Hassan Husseini is a long-time labour and social justice activist. He is a member of the National Steering Committee of Labour for Palestine-Canada, and a national negotiator at the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC), based in Ottawa. He has occupied several elected union positions in CUPE L. 4600, Ottawa CUPE District Council and Unifor L. 2025. In 2014, he ran for the presidency of the Canadian Labour Congress on a program of renewed labour militancy and activism.Larry Savage is a Professor in the Department of Labour Studies at Brock University. His teaching and research is focused on collective bargaining, union strategy, and labour politics. He is also a former member of the Executive Council of the Ontario Federation of Labour. Professor Savage has co-authored several books on the Canadian labour movement including his latest, with Stephanie Ross, Shifting Gears: Canadian Autoworkers and the Changing Landscape of Labour Politics, published the University of British Columbia Press.Pamela Arancibia is a labour organiser and works for an academic-sector local. She is a coordinator of the Greater Toronto Area chapter of Labour for Palestine, organises with her community through Latinx for Palestine, and sits on the Board of Directors of Mayworks Festival of Working People and the Arts. Pamela is an internationalist and anti-imperialist, and believes workers are best positioned to secure our collective liberation.Farah Ghafoor is the author of Shadow Price (House of Anansi, 2025). Selections of her debut won the E.J. Pratt Medal and Prize in Poetry, and were finalists for the CBC Poetry Prize and the Far Horizons Award for Poetry. Her work appears in art exhibitions, magazines, anthologies, and post-secondary course curriculums. Farah resides in Tkaranto (Toronto) where she writes about the intersection of climate change, colonialism, and capitalism. <a href="https://mayworks.ca/" title="https://mayworks.ca/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Mayworks Festival of Working People &amp; the Arts</a> 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.

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