Thank you for joining us at the 39th annual Mayworks Festival of Working People & the Arts.

This year we featured twenty artists, each of whom engaged, with compassion, the spirit of collective power.

From responses to inaccessible health care in Ontario to a fight for dignity among migrant workers in Quebec; from capturing the alienation of injured workers in Toronto to classist land grabbing in Pakistan; from an analysis of radical protests against resource exploitation in the Caribbean to clarifying the long-lasting impacts of French colonialism, and to witnessing the endurance of Palestinian political prisoners; the artworks narrated our joint struggles.

The exhibitions included multi-channel video, sculpture, textile art, installation, video, website creation and virtual landscapes. We also presented live music, performing shadow puppets and curated film screenings. There were participatory workshops, informed panel discussions and intimate artist talks.

Together, we envisioned labour justice and celebrated working people. Explore the 2024 Mayworks Festival calendar.