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The Artist Award for Excellence in Contribution to the Labour Movement, 2025 (Winner)
The Art of Solidarity delves into the rich tapestry of labour arts and heritage in Canada—from protest music and union banners, to murals, community theatre, and oral histories, to workers' history museums and arts festivals—showcasing how these expressions of working people's culture have been essential to challenging inequality and fostering solidarity. This inspiring collection highlights the resilience and creativity of labour arts and heritage practitioners who, despite financial and organizational challenges, continue to amplify the voices and experiences of working-class communities. In an economy characterized by growing polarization, inequality, precarity, and uncertainty about the future and meaning of work, labour arts and heritage has a central role to play in providing answers that challenge the prevailing narratives about whose work matters and whose efforts are central to our communities' wellbeing. This work is more important than ever before.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The
Art of Solidarity: Labour Arts and Labour Heritage in Canada
Rob Kristofferson and Stephanie Ross
Part
I
The
Recent History of Labour Arts And Labour Heritage Organizations in Canada
Chapter
1
Forty
Years of Revolutionary Programming: A Brief History of Mayworks Festival of
Working People and the Arts
Carolyn Combs, Brooke Downey, Emily Visser, Helen Kennedy, Florencia
Berinstein, and Karl Beveridge
Chapter
2
The
Workers Arts and Heritage Centre: Thirty Years of Challenge and Change,
Celebrating Working People and Their Communities
Florencia Berinstein and Rob Kristofferson
Chapter
3
The
Alberta Labour History Institute: Promoting Labour Activism by Reviving
Labour's Story
Donna Coombs-Montrose and Alvin Finkel
Chapter
4
The
BC Labour Heritage Centre: Bringing Labour History to Life
Joey Hartman
Chapter
5
The
Graphic History Collective: Developing a Methodology of Solidarity and
Collaboration
Graphic History Collective
Chapter
6
Mayworks
Kjipuktuk/Halifax: Widening the Scope of Labour Art
Sébastien Labelle
Chapter
7
The
Toronto Workers' History Project
Craig Heron
Chapter
8
Winnipeg,
Public Labour History, and the Possibilities and Problems of Commemoration
James Naylor
PART
II
Artist
Profiles
Chapter
9
Karl
Beveridge and Carole Condé (1940-2024)
Chapter
10
Arlene
Mantle (1939-2012)
Chapter
11
Kevin
Barrett
Chapter
12
Don
Bouzek / Ground Zero Productions
Chapter
13
Maria
Dunn
Chapter
14
Min
Sook Lee
Chapter
15
Kwentong
Bayan Collective
GALLERY
OF IMAGES
PART
III
Envisioning
the Future of Labour Arts and Labour Heritage
Chapter
16
The
Labour Arts Catalyst Program: Keeping the Vision of Mayworks Festival Alive
Alexandra C. Yeboah
Chapter
17
Work
In Progress: Redesigning Permanent Exhibits at the Workers Arts and Heritage
Centre
Tara Bursey
Chapter
18
Alberta
Labour History Institute: Building, Recording, and Disseminating the Living
History of Alberta's Black Community
Donna Coombs-Montrose
Chapter
19
Union
Zindabad!: A Project of the BC Labour Heritage Centre
Donna Sacuta
Chapter
20
Remember
| Resist | Redraw: A Radical History Poster Project
Graphic History Collective
Chapter
21
Social
Justice Trading Cards: A Project of Mayworks Kjipuktuk/Halifax
Sébastien Labelle
Chapter
22
Telling
History Through Theatre: The Toronto Workers' Theatre Group
Craig Heron
Chapter
23
Looking
to the Past: The Brandon Labour History Exhibition
Rhonda L. Hinther
Chapter
24
The
SPECIAL INTEREST group
Kevin Barrett
Chapter
25
Packingtown:
From Community Collection to Video Ballad
Don Bouzek with Maria Dunn
Chapter
26
On
The River
Asani / Maria Dunn / Ground Zero Productions
Chapter
27
The
New Cultural Labour Movement
Davina DesRoches
Ode
to Tomorrow (A Scene from a Museum)
John Isaiah Edward Hill
Notes
Index
Contributors
