Mayworks Kingston

A second SPOKEN WORD workshop will be taking place on APRIL 19th on Queen’s Campus. Back by popular demand, this workshop is a way to fuse rhythm, poetry and your concerns in your words into a dynamic piece of performative poetry. The workshop includes a discussion on gender and social experiences in academia and the workforce, techniques and tips for potent writing as well as the opportunity to perform you piece at the Mayworks festival in early May.

This workshop is open to female identified individuals. The Spoken word workshop is free of charge and refreshments will be provided. Please confirm your interest with Lara at Equityco@sgps.ca asap.

Note that due to lack of response from food and beverage workers, the photography workshop date and workers group has changed.

MayWorks Kingston is hosting workshops with acclaimed digital photography artists Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge. The workshops aim to provide an opportunity for Queen’s University workers (staff, teaching assistants and fellows, and faculty) to express their experiences of work through digital photography.

Carole and Karl will facilitate a workshops on Saturday April 10^th and Sunday April 11^th from 11am-2pm each day. Workshops are free, though require registration and participation on both days. We aim to bring together a group of workers with diverse experiences, who wish to explore the impact of the various changes that are occuring in universities today, and at Queen’s specifically. Individuals who wish to participate anonymously will be accommodated.

Carole and Karl have collaborated with various trade unions and community organizations in the production of their staged photographic work over the past 25 years. Their work has been exhibited across Canada and internationally in both the trade union movement and art galleries and museums. For more information about them please visit: http://www.workingimage.ca/

For more information or to register for this workshop please email mayworkskingston@gmail.com with the subject heading: Photography workshop. In the body please include your name, your staff role, and any related artistic experience. There is limited space so please register soon!

DJs Redfoot and La Gringa return with Latin, Pan African, Brazilian, and Dancehall tunes. Plus DJ Seditious spinning neo-Soul and Hip-hop.

This party will be supporting the Mayworks Festival. Don’t miss it!

Doors at 10:30pm, admission is $8 before 11pm, $10 after.  Time To Laugh Comedy Club.

Also check out the Soul Shakedown Blog: http://soulshakedownkingston.wordpress.com/

Spring has arrived – and so have the harvesters of our food

Between the Lines and MayWorks Kingston invite you to meet acclaimed photographer Vincenzo Pietropaolo, and learn about his new book, Harvest Pilgrims: Mexican and Caribbean Migrant Farm Workers in Canada
Thursday, March 11th, 2010
6:30 to 8:30 pm
Delahaye Room
Central Branch of Kingston Frontenac Public Library
130 Johnson Street, Kingston

Harvest Pilgrims tells the little-known story of Canada’s migrant workers. The photographs in the “Harvest Pilgrims” collection have been highly acclaimed internationally through many publications and exhibitions, including a travelling show curated by the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography that opened in Mexico City. Vincenzo Pietropaolo will present a slideshow of his work on the subject, and talk about the project, which has been 20 years in the making.

For more information:

Between the Lines
416.535.9914
info@btlbooks.com

MayWorks Kingston
www.opirgkingston.org/mayworks