The Third Annual Vancouver Festival of Culture and Working Life Culture as An Organizing Tool Music, Theatre, Video Dance, Photography, Workshops May 1-6, 1990 Programme of Events MAYWORKS Culture as an Organizing Tool May 1-6, 1990 Welcome to the Third Annual Vancouver MayWorks Festival of Culture and Working Life. This year’s festival is built around Culture as an Organizing Tool furthering MayWorks mandate of celebrating working people and working life. through cultural expression - be you a construction worker, homemaker or underemployed person. MayWorks represents a strong coalition of community interests with events co-sponsored by many cultural communities. artists. Labour, women’s, church and anti-poverty groups. Using Theatre. Visual Arts, Video. Dance. Music. Workshops and more. MayWorks presents art that crosses all boundaries - promoting understanding trhough the sharing of our cultures. Join us for a week of good times at May Works! MATS TET MAU RY - throughout the MayWorks Week Komagata Maru: A Story in Pictures Workers Club, 2859 Commercial Dr. A photo exhibit of the 1914 Komagata Maru incident where East Indian immigrants were denied entry into Canada. End Legislated Poverty Visual Arts Show Workers Club, La Quena: 1111 Commercial Dr. : and Octopus Books 1146 Commercial Dr. The works deal with poverty, homelessness and community orgranizing with a strong anti-corporate message. Speaking Women, by Zoe Lambert Grunt Gallery. 209 East 6th Avenue - to the end of May Artist present/Discussion - Thurs., May 3. 1990 8 p Works on the theme of wimmin’s work / experience. Speaking Women, photo credit: Donna Hagerman 28 e Pacific Tribune, April 30, 1990 MAYDAY ! International Workers Day, May 1, 1990 photo credit: Pacific Tribune IWA Hall - 13th and Commercial - 7:30 pm - FREE! Celebrate International Labour Solidarity and Fight the GST! Speakers: Jean Claude Parrot, CUPW | Peter Mahlangu, SACTU Music: Holly Amtzen, Linda Chobatuck, ’ Pierre Fournier, John Gray and Guests. Doors / Bar / Solidarity Kitchen with proceeds to: Canadian Farmworkers Union Come early, doors open at 6:30. Sponsored by Vancouver Trade Union Mayday Committee Music / Dance at the Workers Club® Rhythm and Greens Thursday, May 3, 10:00 pm Working It Out - Songs and Poems from the Workplace Friday. May 4.7:30 pm Women and Work Clothes Friday. May 4. 7:30 pm Union Hall Dance Party Friday. May 4, 10:00 pm La Unica Orquesta and Salsa Dance su... May 5,9:30 pm SING OUT! A Celebration of Solidarity may 6. 7:30 pm Theatre /Performance Spotlight on Community Theatre thursday, May 3.7:30 Coffee Break thursday, May 3.7:30 pm Uniformity Forever: A Power Play about Airline Workers Saturday, May 5, 7:30 pm Youth Activist Culture Sunday, May 6, | pm, Free Grandma Says Sunday, May 6, 3pm Free MayWorks / Community Collaborations Celebration: Church and Labour Working Together Monday, April 30, 7:30 pm, First United Church, 320 East Hastings (at Gore) Labour music from Fraser Union and others, poetry from Van. Industrial Writers Union poets: readings, meditation on labour, hosted by Reverend Gary Patterson. La Soiree des Francophones Wednesday. May 2. 7:30 pm Co-sponsored by Le Centre Culturel Francophone. With Maric Bourgeois, Federation des Franco-Columbiens, and Jean Claude Parrot, CUPW Featuring Picrre Fourniere and Les Danscurs du Pacifique. 0% Vacancy Rate Players Thursday. May 3 - Spotlight on Community Theatre Produced in collaboration with COPE, Tenants Rights Coalition, and 0% Vacancy Players. James Connolly Commemorative Saturday. May 5, 7:30 pm In collaboration with members of Vancouver's Irish community. Named in commemoration of the 8 workers who died Dec. 28, 1989 when an earthquake *Mayworks Workers Club destroyed the "Workers Club" in Newcastle, Australia..Come to May Works Workers Club. Come join the party! We're proud to: * be staffed by union volunteers + be smoke free! (with covered outdoor smoking area); * serve delicious “Solidarity food,” Club Policy: Please arrive before 7:30p.m. for early evening shows. Doors, bar and kitchen open at 6:30 so come early and relax! Admission: $6.00 Employed / $4.00 Underemployed SEND THE SHIRT OFF YOUR BACK TO MULRONEY - AND FIGHT THE GST! $ 1.00 OFF Workers Club admission with a shirt and your signature on a card saying: “Dear Brian, here's the shirt off my back. Now dump your stupid GST and social service cuts!.” CUPW will deliver them to Brian, Nightly awards for the most creative shirts! Under the MayWorks Banner: Keep On Singing Saturday, April 28 7:30 pm, Ukrainian Hall, 805 East Pender Songs of our working heritage. The Speed of the Wheel is Up to the Potter Thursday, April 19, 8 pm, Octopus Books, 1146 Commercial Drive Launch of a first book of poems by Vancouver writer Sandy Shreve, a member of the Vancouver Industrial Writers’ Union. Part of the VIWU reading series funded by Canada Council. MAYDAY! MAY 1, 1990 May | See back panel for more information. Folk Song Circle Wednesday,May 2, 8 pm, Anza Club, 3 West 8th Avenue The regular folk song circle of the Vancouver Folk Song Society, with a focus on labour songs. a WORKERS OF THE WORLD - REWIND Video Memories of the Working “80s Curated by Sara Diamond and Karen Knight Saturday, April 28 7:00 pm. 8:15 pm. 10:00 pm Video In, 1102 Homer St. Admission $3 employed non-members $2 Video In members, un/deremployed, seniors and students For further info : ph. 254-5210 Video In An International collection about hair salons, agricultural work, Third World unionism and the urge to buy. Tapes will be available for library viewing throughout the week of MayWorks. Videos Include: CHINESE NOODLE MAKING backwards and torwards David Yang of Yang's Restaurant on Main Street. Vancouver, makes the ultimate noodles. FARM FANTASY A tribute to the Vander Zaag potato farm in Southern Ontario. ZOK’ sy CAR A humourous comment on consumerism and the desire to have more. A family of three is defeated by the American Dream. photo courtesy of Video In Held on Sat. May 5 at Workers Club. I pm drop-in -Rise Up Singing! é Song writing workshop. Sharpen your Skills writing Songs for rallies and picket lines. No =) charge, but pre-registration appreciated. Phone Phil at 253-9589 for more information. -Blue Pencil Cafe Bring poems. fiction or non-fiction for 30 minute sessions with editors Kirsten Emmott, Mark Warrior and Glen Downie $5.00 -Logo/Cartoon/Songwriting/Skit Contest! Contests entries closed April 23, judges results announced Sat., May 5. 1 pm Prizes!