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Latest NewsWAHC-Stravaganza
The Workers Arts and Heritage Centre invites you to join us in a celebration of Workers Pleasures and Pastimes commemorating the 15th anniversary of the WAHC and the 150th anniversary of the historic Hamilton Custom House with special events scheduled for the weekend. Events include the opening of the New Worker's Song Book Exhibition and WAHC-STRAVAGANZA an all day Victorian-Era Carnival scheduled for Saturday, the 11th of September featuring free BBQ, community vendors, family friendly games and a performance by The Dinner Belles. For more information:
The Workers Arts & Heritage Centre is pleased to present the third in
their series of unofficial after-parties for the James St. North Art
Crawl. Forest City Lovers are nationally distributed through Arts & Crafts after
a partnership with their Toronto label Out of This Spark. 2010 has seen
the release of their recently completed sophomore album Carriage. Carriage
has been met with massive critical acclaim. Having a history deeply rooted in bass, Motëm was first discovered funnily
enough by two labels across the Atlantic Ocean from him; Harmönia Records The New Workers Songbook
Inspired by WAHC’s collection of mid-twentieth century
worker’s songbooks, DodoLab is collaborating with artist Curator Caitlin
Sutherland and Hamilton artist, musician Tor Lukasik-Foss on the creation
of a new collection of songs for the working people of Hamilton.
 Executive Producer: Cathy Crow Presented by Workers Arts & Heritage Centre and SkyWorks Charitabe Foundation. HOME SAFE TORONTO is the second in the SkyWorks series of documentaries that deals with how Canadian families live with the threat and the experience of homelessness. It shows how the housing crisis in Canada is an expression of the increasing economic and job insecurity that has devastated the manufacturing sector in the Greater Toronto Area and throughout southern Ontario. The film reveals the consequences of this "new economy," where families surviving on low wages with no benefits, or on dwindling social assistance, are faced with the terrible choice between keeping a roof over their heads or putting food on the table. Friday January 29th 2010 Chinese Fever: Liki-Liki
"Chinese Fever is an installation made up of gold paper-cutouts that would take over the gallery walls. Inspired by hand-painted export Chinese wallpaper, which was popular throughout Europe and North America in the 1700s, I hope to subvert some of these chinoiserie images with an undertone of indignation and violence, and to comment on current events and attitudes." - Karen Tam
AGM 14 - NOV. 14th 2009
Harvest Pilgrim: Migrant Farm Workers in Canada Photographs by Vincenzo Pietropaolo
This collection of images of migrant farm labour in Canada by Vincent Pietropaolo is part of a long tradition of socially useful photographic documentation. In the past the credibility of camera images – their capacity to suggest real space and capture human expression – led to their acceptance as truthful witnesses of reality. As such, they have played a continuing role in efforts to alter disturbing aspects of society, particularly in the United States. “Vincent Pietropaolo’s genius in these photographs is to suggest whole histories and whole worlds in the simplest of images. He takes a phenomenon most of us are hardly aware of and makes us see in it the story of a continent.” Nino Ricci, author Next Deadline for Applications to Ontario Arts Council's Artists in the Community Workplace Program - March 25th, 2010
Are you an artist, community group, union or professional organization seeking creative ways to engage your audience or membership with regards to issues related to work, the workplace, employment or social justice? WAHC's Labour Arts programme wants to hear from you! Through our Labour Arts Coordinator, Andrew Lochhead, WAHC can offer you assistance in facilitating collaborative endeavours between artists, working communities, youth and working peoples organizations, through the Ontario Arts Council's Community Arts granting opportunities. For more information on types of projects you or your organization can become involved in, or to learn more about Labour Arts please contact Andrew at andrew [at] wahc-museum.ca Download our brochure; Labour Arts: Promise and Practice
WAHC is pleased to announce that the Virtual Museum of Canada exhibit of …and still I rise, A History of African Canadian Workers in Ontario: 1900 to Present has gone live and is available to use and enjoy! …and still I rise is a joint project of the African Canadian Workers Advisory Committee and the Workers Arts and Heritage Centre. …and still I rise tells the story of African Canadian workers in Ontario from 1900 to the present. The Workers Arts and Heritage Centre in Hamilton, ON is pleased to welcome Andrew Lochhead to the staff team in the position of Labour Arts Coordinator as of January 2009. |
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