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May Day Cabaret
April 28 (Friday), 7 PM, $0-$10 sliding scale
Britannia Community Center, cafeteria, Commerical Drive & Napier (Vancouver)
Help kick-off the 12th Annual Mayworks Festival and dance to East Vancouver's Flying Folk
Army plus music from the Middle East and Latin America. An evening of music, food, sharing
and international solidarity to celebrate International Workers Day. Co-produced by
Mayworks and numerous Iranian, Iraqi, and Kurdish groups from Vancouver. Sorry no minors.
An adjacent children's activity room with arts & crafts and music will be open all evening
for children and their caregivers.
Sponsored by: Britannia Community Centre and storm brewing
May Day Celebration of International Solidarity
April 29 (Saturday), 6:30 PM - 12:30 AM, $25
Maritime Labour Centre, 1880 Triumph Street @ Victoria (Vancouver)
Los Pueblos Unidos. This Cuban-themed fundraising event will feature a Cuban buffet
dinner, followed by the sounds of 'Shango Ashe,' the Solidarity Singers Choir, a silent
auction, salsa dance instruction, and cigar room. Info: 254-0703.
Presented by: Vancouver and District Labour Council
May Day Solidarity Night
May 1 (Monday), 7 PM - 12 AM, $1-$5
La Quena Collective Coffee House, 1111 Commercial Drive (Vancouver)
Join us after a day of revelry and protest - celebrate after the march! Add your voice to the
open mike for solidarity messages or a two-minute rap about today's May Day actions!
Performances by Los Hijos de la Crises (Mexico), the Solidarity Singers Choir, a "People's
Dance" by Sailani Sharma, and more. We'll start the evening with the video, "Reclaim May
Day," from San Francisco's Whispered Media. Free snacks served.
Sponsored by: Storm Brewery
Women for Women in Afghanistan
May 1 (Monday), 6 PM, $50 advance tickets
Pat's Restaurant, 445 - 13th Ave. (West Vancouver)
A fundraising event with live R&B band, dinner and desert (vegetarian also), featuring
Zorha Rasekh, Senior Health Researcher for Physicians for Human Rights. Born in
Afghanistan, Ms. Rasekh interviewed 200 women in Pakistan refugee camps and in Kabul,
Afghanistan, to assess the impact of war and Taliban rule on the health and social
well-being of women in Afghanistan.
Marc Smith live! Slam Poetry Night
May 4 (Thursday), 8 PM, $8 advance / $12 door
Roundhouse Community Centre, Pacific @ Davie (Vancouver)
Direct from Chicago, Performance Poet and Poetry Slam founder, Marc Smith, with an
All- Star Exhibition Slam featuring members of Van Slam Poetry Teams 1996-2000, and live
music by Gospel Space Juice. Marc Smith began Poetry Slam in 1987, since then competitive
poetry performance has spread. His innate sense of rhythm and drama has made him the grand
master of this literary genre - an art form that weds the eloquence of the spoken word with
the excitement of theatre. The Van-Slam was founded in 1996, and continues to be one of the
most spirited, well-attended poetry readings in Vancouver. "The purpose of poetry (and
indeed all art) is not to glorify the poet but rather to celebrate the community to which
the poet belongs."
Presented by: The Vancouver Slam Poetry Association
Musikal Resistance
May 6 (Saturday), 7 PM - 11 PM, $4-10 sliding scale
La Quena Collective Coffeehouse, 1111 Commercial Drive (Vancouver)
Electronic music and avant-garde performance in a revolutionary context. An evening of
musik, djs, art, videos, speakers, literature, drinks. A fundraiser for the Marginalized
Workers Action League. Visit www.techno.ca/shrumtribe
for more information.
Presented by Shrum Tribe Collective, & the Marginalized Workers Action League
Mayworks Tribute to Cuban and Latin American Youth
May 7 (Sunday), 2 PM - 5 PM, free ($5 donation for buffet)
Rebel Centre, 2278 E 24th Avenue (Vancouver)
Report Back from the Latin American Youth Conference on Neo-Liberalism, held in Cuba in
April 2000, where 5,000 youth planned strategies to combat neo-liberalism and globalization.
Hear from youth delegate and UBC student activist, Julia Payson. Plus viewing the short
film "Cuba Va" on youth and democracy in Cuba. Buffet lunch to be served. Info: 874-9048
or 836-8663 or visit www.ndp.org/socialist.
Presented by: NDP Socialist Caucus
Funkorama
May 7 (Sunday), 7 PM - 10 PM, by donation
Vancouver East Cultural Centre, Venebles @ Victoria (Vancouver)
A multi-media, spoken word, music funkorama by and for local youth. Part of the Youth
Driven Youth Action conference, open to all youth.
Presented by: The Environmental Youth Alliance and Mayworks
Cuban Solidarity Night
May 7 (Sunday), 7 PM - 10 PM, by donation
La Quena Collective Coffeehouse, 1111 Commercial Drive (Vancouver)
Join various Cuban solidarity groups for a family event with traditional Cuban foods,
and the sharing of music and videos from current events and campaigns.
Presented by: The Canadian Cuban Friendship Association, The Vancouver Cuba Friendship
and the Ernesto Che Guevara Volunteer Brigade
Hush Grrls Hush
May 8 (Monday), 7 PM - 10 PM, $5 ALL AGES
Vancouver East Cultural Centre, Venebles @ Victoria (Vancouver)
Celebrating our work as artists and the work of womyn in all professions through words,
music, video and performance. Womyn's roles in sex, society, family, the workplace and
just about anywhere ladies roam. Videos: "Live Nude Girls Unite!" (USA, feature length)
by Julia Query and Vicki Funari on the organizing of sex trade workers in San Francisco
by the Service Employees International Union after workers battle their employer over
illegal videotaping; "Dirty Fingernails" by Sara Kennedy; "My Feet and Freedom from the
Inside Out" by Venus Soberanes. Performances by The Rice Girls, Cunt, Mary Sue Bell,
Maggie blue- Blood Sisters, experimental dance collage, Grrls Choir- Punk choir (Seattle),
and Shannon Cluff and Maya Love with Theatrical Improv movement and live music. Spoken
word by Gabrielle Martin, Victoria Henry, Hayley Sinclair, Lydia Vixen, Sarah Hunt, and
Theresa Cowan. Visuals by Suez Holland with Tania Willard and Venus Soberanes. Information
tables. "We are living in a state of emergency and it is not good enough anymore to just
make art."
Sponsored by: the Vancouver East Cultural Centre
From Attica to Gustafsen Lake
May 12 (Friday), 8 PM, $4-$10 sliding scale
La Quena Collective Coffee House, 1111 Commercial Drive (Vancouver)
An evening of readings from the forthcoming book, The Autobiography of Splitting the
Sky with Sandra Bruderer: From Attica to Gustafsen Lake. Splitting the Sky brings words from
the front lines of covert wars against First Nations peoples. He will present evidence
that Premier Ujjal Dosanjh (then BC's Attorney General) turned a minor land dispute into
a major military campaign and provided the NDP with a law and order image for their second
election campaign.
Outrageous Acts: Women Against Globalization
May 18 (Thursday), 7:30 PM, $0-whatever sliding scale
Western Front, 303 E 8th Avenue, near Main (Vancouver)
Poetry, Theatre, Song - you name it, the anti-globalization Outrageous Acts has it. Join
in an evening of creativity, celebration and fun! Local popular theatre troupe,
"Rice Girls" will help you wrap your brain around the many impacts of globalization on
indigenous peoples, people from the global south, and worldwide migration. Find out how
genetic engineering and the World Trade Organization embody the latest wave of
colonization. The Rice Girls are a group of political activists and theatre workers who
entertain, educate, and mobilize opposition against globalization.
Presented by: Basmati Action Group (BAG) and Direct Action Against Refugee Exploitation
(DARE)
Who Tells the Story?: Mayworks Strike Solidarity Cabaret
May 19 (Friday), 8 PM, $3-$7 sliding scale
La Quena Collective Coffeehouse, 1111 Commercial Drive (Vancouver)
If Conrad Black and Sony have their way, their workers will be forced into service-sector
grade wages while the companies rack up millions in profits. Hear stories from the front
lines about attacks on workers in the culture industries, with representatives from the BC
Projectionists Union and Gary Engler of the Communication Energy and Paperworkers Union.
This evening is a great opportunity to hear what happened with the (now over) lockout by
Famous Players and Cineplex Odeon as well as the on-going strike at the Calgary Herald.
Plus live music from local artists.
Sponsored by: Storm Brewery
Erasing States: Remembering Neruda and our National Borders
May 20 (Saturday), 7:30 PM, by donation
La Quena Collective Coffeehouse, 1111 Commercial Drive (Vancouver)
Join local poet, Chad Norman, on censorship in publishing. Music by Yahara Garcia, singer
songwriter, recently moved from Mexico. Norman will read from Pablo Neruda's banned book,
Song of Protest (1960), a book the United States continues to successfully erase - an attempt
to strip Neruda of any political content, by publishing only his love poems. Norman will
also speak on current Canadian trends to poorly define and eagerly erase the real political
poem and read from his manuscript "The Kulling."
Stories of the Street-Level Revolution
May 22 (Monday), 7 PM, $3-$7 sliding scale
La Quena Collective Coffeehouse, 1111 Commercial Drive (Vancouver)
Join Vancouver anti-poverty activist and writer Sheila Baxter for an evening of spoken
word, discussion and video screenings. "No Place to Hide" (Canada, 1998) is a two-part
feature documentary originally broadcast on CBC investigating privacy issues and poverty.
The film examines both video camera surveillance in Brighton, England, as well as the use
of welfare consent forms by the BC government as developments which deny poor people their
rights to privacy. East Vancouver-based Marginalized Workers Action League is also
featured. Screens with "East Side Showdown" documenting the Ontario Coalition Against
Poverty's fight against gentrification and the policy of dispersal of the visibly poor
in Toronto.
Presented by: Marginalized Workers Action League
Joey Keithley in Concert
May 26 (Friday), 8 PM, $5-$10 sliding scale
La Quena Collective Coffeehouse, 1111 Commercial Drive (Vancouver)
Featuring spoken word and music by Joey Keithley (DOA) including "Where the Fraser River
Flows," and songs from his new CD "Beat Trash" such as "Banks of Marble," "Ginger Goodwin,"
and "Dump the Bosses Off Your Back." Plus special guests.
Sponsored by: Storm Brewery
Euphoniously Feminist and Non-Performing Quintet in Concert
May 27 (Saturday), 8 PM, $10 (or pay what you can)
La Quena Collective Coffeehouse, 1111 Commercial Drive (Vancouver)
An annual spring concert under the banner of Mayworks. For over 20 years, EF&N-PQ has been
singing on picket lines and at rallies and demonstrations, in concert halls and theatres.
Their music tells of women's lives, labour struggles, and popular movements of peace,
justice, and a greener world. Active participation in singing songs is welcome.
Breaking Ground Towards an Empowered Filipino Community
May 27 (Saturday), 7 PM, free
Kalayaan Centre, 451 Powell Street (Vancouver)
A play performed around issues and barriers facing the Filipino community, especially new
immigrants, migrant workers, women and youth. A powerful project that has gathered stories
of Filipino-Canadians, sharing their collective experiences as one of Canada's newest and
fastest growing communities. Surrounded by political and economic crisis in the Philippines,
Filipinos began migrating to Canada in the 1960s. A community of professionals not allowed
to work in their professions, a community facing de-skilling, racism, low-paying jobs and
family reunification. These stories make up the rich history of the Filipino community in
Canada. A project of the Kalayaan Resource and Training Center, this theatre project puts
flesh to the history of survival and struggle that Filipino Canadians share and points to
the action needed to find a lasting solution. Info: 255-0725.
A Night in the Day of Iraq
May 29 (Monday), 7:30 PM, sliding scale
Havana Gallery, 1212 Commercial Drive (Vancouver)
A multimedia performance about the effects of sanctions on Iraq. Produced by the Saint
Carol Community.
Presented by: Campaign to End Sanctions Against Iraq and Hands Off Iraq Coalition
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