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Presented in partnership with Neighbour 2 Neighbour Colour of Pomegranates with Abedar Kamgari You are invited to join Abedar Kamgari to eat pomegranates and share stories. Every part of the fruit is useful. After eating the seeds, we will make natural colour from the pomegranate skins. Can you guess what colour pomegranates create? Colour is all around […]

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, […]

Portrait of Resistance: The Art & Activism of Carole Condé & Karl Beveridge (2011) Roz Owen and Jim Miller 72 minutes Join us on Saturday, April 26 for a screening of Roz Owen's and Jim Miller's documentary feature Portrait of Resistance: The Art & Activism of Carole Condé & Karl Beveridge. This wide ranging documentary unpacks […]

Join us for a gathering of food, music, and solidarity at the Workers Arts and Heritage Centre as we celebrate International Workers' Day! This year's event will be taking place indoors at WAHC. Refreshments will be provided by the Hamilton and District Labour Council, with family-friendly activities, live DJ sets and a musical performance from […]

Opening Reception and Performance by mihyun maria kim Celebrate the work of artists Holly Chang, VALU CO-OP, and mihyun maria kim in the exhibition, In the Wake of Work: Asian Diasporas, Labour, and Living Memory. During the reception curator, Jojo Chooi-Harley will give brief remarks. mihyun maria kim will perform live. About the Performance i feel […]

Quilting Using Everyday Fabrics with Holly Chang Children and families are invited to join In the Wake of Work exhibiting artist Holly Chang to make quilted squares while exploring their ancestral roots! Chang will explain how her art project on display, Stitching the Story of Chinese Canadian Histories, used fabric to represent the work of […]

Join us to view Parallel Histories: An Anniversary Exhibit and to celebrate with special guests who will share their reflections on both WAHC and Mayworks. Facilitated by Florencia Berinstein. Come prepared to share your memories or to join us for the first time. WAHC wishes to acknowledge the Ontario Arts Council, the City of Hamilton, […]

Love Intersections is a media arts collective made up of queer artists of colour dedicated to using collaborative art-making and relational storytelling to address systemic racism in our communities. They produce intersectional and intergenerational stories from underrepresented communities of colour – centering the invisible, the spiritual, the metaphysical and the imaginary. About the Artists David […]

Calling all artists, community organizers, and storytellers we invite you to join us this Hamilton Arts Week for a 3-hour masterclass in community-based oral history practices. Presented in collaboration with visiting artists-in-residence Jen Sungshine and David Ng of Love Intersections. Rooted in Love Intersections’ ongoing work with racialized and queer communities, this workshop shares tools, […]