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Thirty for Thirty Guided Exhibition Tour

CUPE/SCFP Gallery

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 […]

The Art of Solidarity: A Book Launch with Between the Lines

CUPE/SCFP Gallery

Join us this Labour Day long weekend on Sunday, August 31st at the Workers Arts & Heritage Centre for the launch of the brand-new title, The Art of Solidarity from Between the Lines.  To celebrate this new collection of writing on the legacy and future of labour arts in Canada the launch will include: A conversation between […]

In The Wake of Work Reception and Performance by mihyun maria kim

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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 […]

In the Wake of Work: Asian Diasporas, Labour, and Living Memory

CUPE/SCFP Gallery

Curated by Jojo Chooi-Harley, the exhibition In the Wake of Work: Asian Diasporas, Labour, and Living Memory featuring the work of Holly Chang, mihyun maria kim and VALU CO-OP, explores how the Asian diasporic experience bridges space, tradition, and culture across generations, revealing how diasporic people hold collective memory around the confluence of loss of […]

Screening: Portrait of Resistance – The Art & Activism of Carole Condé & Karl Beveridge

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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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WAHC Member Event: Tour of the Condé Memorial Collection with Karl Beveridge

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Join us on April 24th for our next Members' Event which will offer a behind the scenes look at WAHC's permanent collection, with a focus on the newly-acquired Condé Memorial Collection.The collection was donated to WAHC in 2024 by Karl Beveridge in memory of his partner in life and art, Carole Condé. Both are renowned […]

Labour in the Body at WAHC

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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 […]

Winter 2025 Reception and Artist Walkthrough

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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 […]

What We Inherit

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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 […]

Foreign Dreams

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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 […]