Roll Up Your Sleeves A Denim Un-Gala Fundraiser Saturday, April 13 2024, 7-10 PM The Custom House Roll Up Your Sleeves is back for a second year! After last year’s wildly successful outing, we’re excited to invite folks back to the Custom House on Saturday, April 13 for a night of art, music and fun. […]
This year we are offering our community multiple ways to mark May Day, otherwise known as the International Workers Day! Join us in person at Custom House for a double-bill of thinking, reading and collaborating on more equitable futures for all with our reading club and artist focussed teach in on April 27. Then swing […]
From 12-4 on Saturday June 8 the Workers Arts & Heritage Centre invite our LGBTQ2S+ community to Celebrate Pride Month at WAHC! We’re taking over the backyard at the Custom House for a garden party, co-presented with Hamilton's own Fruit Salad. Soak in the sun, take up space and embrace rest as a revolutionary act! […]
Celebrating The Future of Work Zine launch with musical performances by Mueres en el Mar, spoken word by John Hill, collage workshop by Batcities, and refreshments by Lily's Lemonade. Get your free copy of The Future of Work zine, produced by this year's Youth Council at the Workers Arts and Heritage Centre. The event is […]
Wrap up the summer with an outdoor screening at the Workers Arts and Heritage Centre! To celebrate Labour Day weekend we are showing the award winning documentary UNION directed by Brett Story and Stephen Maing on August 31st in Custom House's back garden. Please note that in the event of inclement weather we’ll move the […]
Opening Reception: Saturday September 21, 6-9pm As part of their artist residency, Simranpreet Kaur Anand with Conner Singh VanderBeek have curated a community exhibition of visual art, Foreign Dreams, in our Community Gallery presented in conjunction with community partners Laadliyan and Naujawan Support Network. This exhibition includes photographic and media arts work by community artists […]
Simranpreet Kaur Anand with Conner Singh VanderBeek’s exhibition Foreign Dreams explores how young people, particularly from the region of Punjab in India, are sold on the dream of migration to Canada for economic opportunity. Toiling in financial precarity, international students fill fast food, transit, agriculture, construction, and security jobs in Canada. The artists ask us […]
Workers Arts and Heritage Centre in conjunction with Laadiyan and Naujawan Support Network welcome you to an opening reception and performance event celebrating the exhibition of Simranpreet Anand with Conner Singh Vanderbeek, Foreign Dreams and a community visual art exhibition, Foreign Dreams, in our Community Gallery. EVENT AGENDA: 6:30 - 7 PM Opening Remarks and Welcome […]
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 […]
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