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The intersection of labour and art from unceded & unsurrendered Mi'kmaw territory. https://linktr.ee/MayworksKjipuktukHfx

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Levée de boucliers contre les coupures dans la culture La Coalition pour les arts de la Nouvelle-Écosse demande au gouvernement provincial de renoncer aux compressions dans les arts et la culture.

Levée de boucliers contre les coupes dans la culture en Nouvelle-Écosse ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/223...

28.02.2026 00:39 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Coupes budgétaires en Nouvelle-Écosse : artistes et étudiants protestent Le ministre des Communautés, de la Culture, du Tourisme et du Patrimoine n'arrive pas à expliquer les compressions. Et, les cinq syndicats étudiants de la Nouvelle-Écosse craignent la disparition de c...

Nouvelles de la Nouvelle-Écosse, météo ici.radio-canada.ca/info/videos/...

28.02.2026 00:42 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Arts and Culture: Nova Scotia’s Undervalued Public Good - CCPA Undervalued and underestimated, the arts and culture sector continually finds itself on the defensive in the political sphere - when it makes it into that sphere at all. Rarely the topic of political ...

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

10.03.2026 19:35 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Congrats to Shelly our winner of the lastMayworks merch draw!
Thank you to everyone who entered and continues to support worker-centered art and culture ❤️

04.12.2025 18:41 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Donate | Mayworks Kjipuktuk-Halifax Individual contributions are essential to the success of the Mayworks Halifax Festival. Donations over $20 will be issued a charitable tax receipt.

On this Giving Tuesday, we’re asking our community to stand with us.Every contribution , no matter the size, strengthens our ability to keep this work alive.

Visit our website mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/donate/ to donate today!

01.12.2025 15:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This Giving Tuesday, Support Mayworks!

Mayworks is more than a festival, it’s a movement! Rooted in labour, art, and social justice, Mayworks creates space for workers, artists, and marginalized communities to tell their stories, challenge injustice, and imagine a better future.

01.12.2025 15:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
MAYDAY

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14.11.2025 15:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
MAYDAY Danse - Confession Publique
MAYDAY Danse - Confession Publique YouTube video by Live Art Dance

"Confession publique" opens TONIGHT
Winner of TWO prestigious Prix de la danse de Montreal.
Nov 14-15 @ Alderney Landing Theatre
Ticket link in comments.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UDk...

14.11.2025 15:36 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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« Confession publique », de la danseuse Angélique Willkie, à voir à Darmouth | OHdio | Radio-Canada Écoutez l’extrait de l’émission Le réveil / Nouvelle-Écosse et T.-N. : « Confession publique », de la danseuse Angélique Willkie, à voir à Darmouth

@mayworkskjipuktuk.bsky.social

« Confession publique », de la danseuse Angélique Willkie, à voir à Darmouth

ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premie...

14.11.2025 15:30 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Did You Know?
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Canada Post owns 91% of Purolator
https://www.cupw.ca/facts

#SupportCUPW #canlab #cdnpoli @CanadianLabour

23.10.2025 23:13 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
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Did You Know?
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Canada Post's Financial Decisions
www.cupw.ca/facts

#SupportCUPW #canlab #cdnpoli @CanadianLabour

25.10.2025 23:00 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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Did You Know?
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Even More Facts
www.cupw.ca/facts

#SupportCUPW #canlab #cdnpoli @CanadianLabour

26.10.2025 21:44 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
A bag of cookies with "we support you!" on the bag

A bag of cookies with "we support you!" on the bag

A bunch of treats in cute Halloween bags with little ghosts and cats

A bunch of treats in cute Halloween bags with little ghosts and cats

Still feeling the love from amazing SMU students who brought us solidarity and picket line treats today!

You can come by to support us, or sign: https://bit.ly/EmailForPTSMUFaculty

28.10.2025 03:23 👍 8 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
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✨ Don’t miss these two powerful exhibits No Dominion/No Domain and my inner child healing my immigrant identity (Rag Dolls 2.0)
🖼️ Both exhibits are free to see until October 31, so come experience them before they’re gone.
🎉 Join us for the reception tomorrow, Tuesday, Oct 28 from 6–8PM

27.10.2025 16:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Mayworks Artistic Director with CUPE 3912 president on picket line.

Mayworks Artistic Director with CUPE 3912 president on picket line.

Mayworks Artistic Director with CUPE 3912 member on picket line.

Mayworks Artistic Director with CUPE 3912 member on picket line.

#Solidarity with striking members of @cupe3912.bsky.social ✊🏼

27.10.2025 16:27 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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Thank you to the more than 400 ppl who came by the Khyber Centre last night for Nocturne! Both shows run until October 31st 31st.

19.10.2025 15:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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See you tonight for Nocturne!!! Proud to present two amazing exhibitions at the Khyber Centre for the Arts in Hollis St. 6PM to 12AM

18.10.2025 19:13 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Protecting Canada Post, A Public Service That Can Prosper – Nova Scotia Federation of Labour Open Letter to All Nova Scotia Members of Parliament from the NSFL Dear Members of Parliament, July 1, 1867, marks the founding of Canada’s public postal service. For over 150 years, Canada Post has c...
08.10.2025 22:07 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Congratulations to Malcolm, the winner of our merchandise draw from the Sept 20th Draw the Line event!

28.09.2025 14:09 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Presented by Mayworks Kjipuktuk/Halifax and hosted at the Khyber Centre for the Arts, the exhibition runs October 11-31, 2025. Events include Nocturne: Art at Night Festival from 6PM-12AM on Saturday, October 19, and a closing reception from 6-8PM on Monday, October 27

27.09.2025 14:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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No Dominion/No Domain brings together two artists, Eva Grant and Curtis Botham, whose works reflect on land, labour, infrastructure, and ecological movement.

27.09.2025 14:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The govt keeps blaming workers for Canada Post’s crisis instead of holding management to account. Mismanagement, failed projects & bloated executive bonuses are the problem, not postal workers who keep the mail moving. #cdnpoli #CUPW #canlab #novascotia #strike #workers

25.09.2025 20:58 👍 38 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 0
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Postal workers back on strike over Canada Post changes, union says | CBC

Strike Strike Strike, Power to the Workers!

CUPW has issued the following statement: "In response to the Government’s attack on our postal service and workers, effective immediately, all #CUPW members at Canada Post are on a nationwide strike."

#CanadaPost #Canada

25.09.2025 21:37 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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The NS Federation of Labour welcomes improvements to the Workers’ Compensation Act, but more needs to be done – Nova Scotia Federation of Labour The NS Federation of Labour welcomes improvements to the Workers’ Compensation Act, but says more needs to be done, including the introduction of universal coverage. The Nova Scotia Federation of Labo...

nslabour.ca/the-ns-feder...

25.09.2025 22:24 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

BRB writing free angry letters

26.09.2025 00:22 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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This play will change how you think about Halifax | CBC Arts Mischief, on until Oct. 12 at the Neptune Theatre, examines how colonialism long-term effects still shape the city

"Mischief" by Mi'kmaw playwright Lisa Nasson.

"How can a woman whose family lives in a society placed under a microscope of stereotype, carry the resilience of her ancestors to embrace their existence?"

Neptune Theatre until Oct. 12.

🎟️ - www.neptunetheatre.com/box-office/m...

#Halifax #mi'kmaw

26.09.2025 05:37 👍 14 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 2

Presented by Mayworks Kjipuktuk/Halifax and hosted at the Khyber Centre for the Arts, the exhibition runs October 11-31, 2025. Events include Nocturne: Art at Night Festival from 6PM-12AM on Saturday, October 18, and a closing reception from 6-8PM on Monday, October 27.

23.09.2025 12:35 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

A series of rag dolls where each figure represents a point in time in the immigrant life, softly positioned in space, while the whole assemblage provides a grounded picture of who she is.

23.09.2025 12:35 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Our second Mayworks Momentum exhibition to be hosted at the Khyber Centre for the Arts and included in the Nocturne program!

my inner child healing my immigrant identity (Rag Dolls 2.0) by Martha Mutale explores the immigrant experience - the self split between two homes.

23.09.2025 12:35 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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No Dominion/No Domain | Mayworks Kjipuktuk-Halifax Presented in partnership with the Khyber Centre for the Arts and Nocturne Mayworks Kjipuktuk/Halifax presents No Dominion/No Domain, where Eva Grant and Curtis Botham trace land, life, labour, and pat...

Presented by Mayworks and hosted at the Khyber Centre for the Arts, the exhibition runs October 11-31, 2025. Events include Nocturne: Art at Night Festival from 6PM-12AM on Saturday, October 19, and a closing reception from 6-8PM on Monday, October 27.
mayworkskjipuktukhfx.ca/event/no-dom...

18.09.2025 15:11 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0