As part of the WAHC Artist-in-Residence program, Creative Food Research Collaboratory members Anahí González and Katie Lawson have spent the summer months conducting research together at the intersection of migrant workers’ rights and food systems.This program will feature reflections from their residency and invite attendees to collectively intervene in the migrant worker contract between Canada […]
Join us in celebrating the opening of Para Ayer/Due Yesterday, and WAHC’s heritage exhibition WIP: Survival and Dignity! Anahí González will be in attendance acting as her alter-ego Manuela, and invites people to interact with her performance The Employee of the Month, and The Next One, and The Next One… alongside Willie the Goose. Community curators from […]
Spend a fun afternoon making cyanotype prints using found objects and light! No experience required. Please wear clothes you don’t mind getting messy. Ages 12+.Registration required; register below.This event activates Thin Spaces: the porous places between, curated by Elwood Jimmy. Please email Ada at ada@wahc-museum.ca to be added to the waitlist. About the Curator Elwood Jimmy is […]
Soanación: Voice as living relation invites participants into a somatic and artistic exploration through breath, vibration, and deep listening. We will enter a non-verbal “thin space” where body, voice, and land can be felt as entangled.Rooted in Sal(t) Collective’s practice of Soanación—a Spanish wordplay between sound and healing—the workshop opens questions about colonial relationships with body […]
On Art Crawl night, join us for the opening reception of WAHC's Spring/Summer group exhibition, Thin Spaces: the porous places between, curated by Elwood Jimmy. The celebration includes a participatory writing project activating Christine De Vuono's ongoing installation You're Invited, led by the artist.You're Invited welcomes viewers to respond to prompts, writing personal meditations on […]
Curated by Elwood Jimmy With work by Christine De Vuono, Justine Langille, Kwentong Bayan Collective, and Sal(t) Collective Which labours rendered invisible by modernity keep us afloat in times of crisis? How do we move with this moment to the next with care?Between moments of transition exist thin spaces, areas that are both within and […]
Join us for an International Women's Day sing-a-long with Hamilton's very own Tuesday Choir! The community choir will lead us through an assortment of songs from labour and women's histories. Beginners welcome, let's sing together!All ages. Registration encouraged, but drop-ins are okay. Schedule of events 1:00 pm: Doors open.1:30-2:30 pm: Sing-a-long with Tuesday Choir.2:30-3:00 pm: […]
A solo exhibition by Jay Youngdahl Drawing on Jay Youngdahl's experience working with trade unions as a lawyer, organizer, and member, I Don’t Want Your Millions (Billions), Mister proposes two ideas: that all workers are artists, and despite differences working people can build solidarity through collective struggle.Featuring worker-made objects and documentation from training and apprenticeship […]
Join Executive Director and co-curator Tara Bursey for a special guided tour of our labour and activist heritage exhibition, Thirty for Thirty.This tour will offer rare insights into WAHC's collection of objects connected to labour and workers' history and people's movements. Visitors will also hear from some of the donors of items found in the […]
30 Objects for 30 Years of the Workers Arts & Heritage Centre Curated by Sylvia Nickerson and Tara BurseyDrawing on WAHC’s collection of heritage objects, this exhibition commemorates our 30th anniversary championing working people and their labour through history, culture and art. Solidarity and unity, struggles for fairness, and experiences at work, home, and play […]
Workers Arts & Heritage Centre
51 Stuart St, Hamilton, ON L8L 1B5, Canada
WAHC is situated on the traditional territories the Erie, Neutral, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee and Mississaugas.
