***PLEASE NOTE – THE OPENING RECEPTION OF WHAT WE INHERIT ON FEB 15TH HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO WEATHER CONCERNS***

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Black History Month Book Club: The Sleeping Car Porter

Workers Arts & Heritage Centre

Join WAHC as we dig into Suzette Mayr’s award-winning The Sleeping Car Porter this February as part of our Black History Month Book Club! Grab your own copy and come prepared on the 22nd to join in a discussion facilitated by community organizer and artist, Sahra Soudi. We'll be digging into the history of porters […]

Second Saturday for Families with Heidi McKenzie

Women's Work: Weaving Our Stories Together Children and families are invited to join What We Inherit artist Heidi McKenzie on International Women's Day to create a community quilt celebrating the transformative work of women. Participants are invited to bring photographs of the female members of their families and communities (digitally or on paper). Using photocopies […]

Winter 2025 Reception and Artist Walkthrough

CUPE/SCFP Gallery

Natalie Hunter and Heidi McKenzie will guide audience members through the themes and inspirations behind their exhibition, What We Inherit, exploring how the legacies of family members’ occupations shape us. IMAGE AT TOP: Heidi McKenzie, Detail of Body Interrupted (2016), variable dimensions, earthenware, ceramic decal, aircraft cable, raku fired rings. Collection of the artist. IMAGE […]

Steelworker Legacies: Objects and Stories

WAHC 51 Stuart Street, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Steelworkers (active or retired) and their families are invited to participate in a storytelling event. Bring an object, photograph or memento connected to steelwork. Over refreshments, share the significance of your object and tell a story connected with it. With participants' permission, we will photograph your objects and collect your stories for inclusion in our […]

Labour in the Body

A movement workshop with Alexandra Morgan and Heidi McKenzie How does the work you do sit inside your body, shaping the movements, postures, and pains you may feel? How does your work affect you? In this workshop, explore how the work we do impacts us. Heidi McKenzie invites you to develop greater self-awareness in order […]