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Following up on a recent post, here is a selection of “Stories to the Streets” by Jeff Noonan and me. Jeff did the writing, I took the photos. “Stories” is our contribution to this year’s MayWorks Windsor 2017.

So far we put up three of six sets in various parts of the city. The other half will go up later this week. When you are on University West or Wyandotte W near downtown you may see these posters--usually on poles. Try to find all six!

Art Against Precarity is not only about using the social function of art to engage in the issues of precarious work. In the face of social insecurity, art as the freedom to create is also at risk. In Journey to Belong, a multi-art event that includes the drag performance Sarap, the short film The Sunflower Man and the visual exhibit My Journey on the “Pathway”, to fight against precarious living as migrant workers is simply to cook, to dance and to make robot head masks.”

“A festival that privileges “art with a cause”, Mayworks continues to seek that delicate balance between the urgency of immediate actions and the criticality required to change consciousness in the long term. This at times is translated into that tension between content and form, resolved thoughtfully through the two visual exhibitions Strike A Chord and Art & Tomatoes. The former uses performance, video, installation, sculpture and drawing to propel the power of art to activate change catalysts. The latter reaffirms this by bearing witness to the visual strategies of one of the most important workers’ rights, anti-racist, migrant justice mobilizations of 2016.”

32nd Mayworks Festival of Working People and the Arts