FILM/VIDEO/FORUMS & WORKSHOPS
Dynamite Writing Workshops!
With Ami Mattison, Anna Camilleri and Ivan E. Coyote
Thursday April 29, 6:30-9 pm, $10
The 519 Church Street Community Centre, 519 Church Street
Registration required: call 416-599-9096 or email registration@mayworks.ca
Performing as part of the festival, this year Mayworks is pleased to bring together this powerhouse trio of writers to offer three different writing workshops. If you’ve ever wanted to fine-tune your writing, feel shy about performing it or have something to say but don’t know where to start, these introductory workshops will provide a supportive and fun environment to start.
Participants will choose from one of the following three workshops: 1) memoir writing with Ivan E. Coyote; 2) entering writing with curiosity and creative license with Anna Camilleri; 3) performing your poetry with Ami Mattison. At the end of the night, participants from all three workshops will gather together to share, feedback and debrief their workshops.
This is an opportunity to meet and work with three accomplished, highly prolific artists all under one roof in a dynamic and inclusive environment.
All are welcome, but space is limited, so sign up soon!
Mayworks thanks the Canada Council for the Arts, Visiting Foreign Artist Program, for making Ami Mattison’s presence possible. Mayworks also thanks the 519 Church Street Community Centre.
24 Days in Brooks
Monday April 26, 7 pm, $5 suggested
Gallery 1313, 1313A Queen Street West
At Lakeside Packers, one of the world’s largest slaughterhouses, former Congolese diplomat Sa-Eva Katusevanako spends his workday picking bits of bone and fat from meat. He is one of hundreds of foreigners in tiny Brooks, Alberta that within a decade has been transformed from a once homogenous white town, into one of the most diverse places in Canada. Directed by Dana Inkster, 24 Days in Brooks centres on the 24 days of the first-ever strike at Lakeside Packers, and shows a nuanced portrait of people working together and adapting to change.
Co-presented with the Elementary Teachers of Toronto, Night at the Indies and Gallery 1313.
