Learn more about artists' Simranpreet Kaur Anand and Conner Singh VanderBeek and their exhibition, Foreign Dreams, currently open at WAHC until December 14. Foreign Dreams explores how young people from Punjab are sold on the dream of migrating to Canada only to be met with exploitation and legal and financial precarity. Anand and VanderBeek discuss […]
WAHC Youth Council is a group of young people (ages 16-29) who have a common interest in empowering youth, amplifying youth voices, and uplifting young workers.WAHC’s Youth Council is a group of young people: artists, students, union and community activists, ages 16-29, who have a common interest in exploring the challenges youth currently face at […]
An exhibition of work by Natalie Hunter and Heidi McKenzie What legacies of labour do we inherit? From pride, activism, and working-class values to injuries, diseases and pollution, the work of Natalie Hunter and Heidi McKenzie in What We Inherit reveals how the legacies of family members’ occupations shape us. Using media that evoke basic […]
In conjunction with the exhibition, What We Inherit, our Community Gallery features a collection of objects from WAHC's permanent collection related to steelworkers, documentation of community event, Steelworker Legacies: Objects and Stories, and art created by community members in collaboration with Heidi McKenzie. IMAGE: Film still from Steel Blues, directed by Jorge Fajardo (1976), 34 […]
Murals in MiniatureChildren and families are invited to join local muralist and artist Lester Coloma during Hamilton Winterfest. Use colour to create images that tell stories. Make a mural in miniature! Using a colour palette, participants paint images that celebrate working people and the contributions they make to the social fabric and wellbeing of our […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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