Mayworks Festival: The End of this World Book Reading

Mayworks Festival of Working People and the Arts

We invite you to attend a book reading from The End of This World: Climate Justice in So-Called Canada with author Angele Alook.

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T﻿his event has ASL interpretation.N﻿ote: Another Story is wheelchair accessible but does not have wheelchair accessible washrooms.The climate crisis is here, and the end of this world—a world built on land theft, resource extraction, and colonial genocide—is on the horizon. Drawing on their work in Indigenous activism and the labour movement, the authors of The End of this World: Climate Justice in So-called Canada show that a ‘just transition’ from fossil fuels cannot succeed without the dismantling of settler capitalism in Canada. Their vision is decolonial, liberatory, and transformative.We invite you to attend a book reading with author Angele Alook. Angele has extensively researched Indigenous participation in the labour force of the oil and gas industry in Alberta, and looked at the gendered impacts of this work. She has also researched how members of Bigstone Cree Nation are keeping land-based economies and knowledge alive even as resource industries severely encroach on their territories. The End of This World promises that the next world is within reach and worth fighting for.Join us and receive a free copy of a zine by artist Sonali Menezes made in collaboration with Labour Against the Arms Trade and the Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War.Light refreshments served.*﻿DOORS OPEN AT 6:30PM, SEATING IS GENERAL ADMISSION*<a href="https://www.mayworks.ca" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Mayworks Festival of Working People and the Arts</a> annually presents new works by a diverse range of artists, who are both workers and activists. Our programming offers bold, insightful, responses to pressing issues at the intersection of art, social justice and labour. We are actively engaged in a dialogue that challenges the logics of capitalism and seeks to further our struggles for better working &amp; living conditions . For more information about our 38th annual month-long festival across the Greater Toronto &amp; Hamilton Area, visit <a href="https://mayworks.ca" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">mayworks.ca</a>Angele Alook grew up in her Nation of Bigstone Cree Nation in northern Alberta, then, like many Indigenous peoples seeking an education, she left to study, eventually completing a PhD in sociology at York University in Toronto. After working as a researcher for the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE), she is now back at York as an assistant professor in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies. Angele has extensively researched Indigenous school-to-work transitions and Indigenous participation in the labour force of the oil and gas industry in Alberta, including the gendered impacts of the work and the industry. And she has researched how members of her Nation are keeping land-based economies and knowledge alive, including hunting, trapping, berry-picking, and more, even as resource industries severely encroach on their territories.Accessibility: This venue is wheelchair accessible and has wheelchair accessible washrooms. For questions, please email programming@mayworks.ca

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