Roll Up Your Sleeves, our third annual spring un-gala, is back and it’s shaping up to be quite the evening.
Get your Canadian tuxedos ready because Roll Up Your Sleeves is not just a fundraiser supporting WAHC’s year round operations—it’s an opportunity to celebrate working people’s art, culture and history!
There will be raffle prizes, a peek into our permanent collection, music from Hamilton’s own EYE.SHA, the opportunity to try your hand at pulling your very own letterpress print designed by Greg Smith of Blind Pig Press, and beverages courtesy of Clifford Brewing Company
It’s also the last chance to catch WAHC’s current exhibitions: What We Inherit in the CUPE/SCFP Gallery and Steelworker Legacies in the Community Gallery.
Get your tickets now! You’re not going to want to miss it.
Thank you so very much to our event partners, Clifford Brewing Company, Unifor 5555 and Jewitt McLuckie LLP for making this event possible!
Please remember this will be a masked event and we ask that all attendees remain masked when not eating or drinking in our Main Gallery. We’ll be sure to have masks on hand in case you forget yours at home. The backyard at Custom House will be open weather permitting allowing folks to mingle without concern.
If you have any questions or concerns don’t hesitate to reach out to Development and Outreach Specialist, Cayley James at: cayley@wahc-museum.ca
After moving to Canada at the age of eight, Eye.Sha spent her elementary and high school years honing her musical skills, which ultimately led her to pursue a degree in Vocal Jazz. During her time in college, she had the opportunity to work as a backing vocalist for Juno-nominated vocalist Vita Chambers. She was also featured as a vocalist with the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra.
Eye.Sha’s dedication to her craft did not go unnoticed, as she was accepted into Humber College for a Bachelor of Arts degree in music. However, after one year in the program, she left to focus on Lifeandthetribe, her five-piece R&B and pop ensemble. Lifeandthetribe was honored with the Hamilton City Enrichment Fund for the Arts in Creation and Presentation and was recognized as one of eight emerging Canadian artists to listen to in 2022 by Exclaim Magazine.
Eye.Sha’s new solo project, which incorporates dark synths, airy vocal harmonies, and quirky melodies, draws inspiration from contemporary R&B and the vocal stylings of traditional Gambian Griots. (A griot is a West African storyteller and musician who serves as a custodian of oral traditions, history, and cultural values)
Eye.Sha describes her genre-bending sound as avant-garde R&B, drawing comparisons to contemporary vocalists like Bree Runway and Dawn Richard. Her deep alto tone is reminiscent of a young Toni Braxton. Currently, Eye.Sha is working on her debut album, slated for release in 2025. Learn more about her work at https://eye-sha.com/.
Greg Smith is the proprietor of blindpigpress, a private press in Grimsby since 1991. Through the work of the press Smith explores typography, lettering and type design, while producing books, posters, broadsides and all manner of ephemera. Before blindpigpress Smith studied graphic design at NSCAD. His typography teacher at NSCAD told him he should ‘make little books.’ He did. Smith worked as a designer and taught graphic design and typography for twenty four years at Niagara College.
