Huge Mini Theatre Festival

The above collection of events are grouped as potential package of theater. The following though are in chronological order.

Workers Take the Mic 

Singing for Our Lives
Opening Night is Karaoke Night for The MayworksHalifax 2013 Festival. Bringing Us All Together.

Frequently with huge attendance, this popular event is about singing the songs of our lives, from Elvis to Solidarity, from golden oldies to the newest rock, labour songs, working songs and love songs. Just one of the many ways working women and men celebrate their lives.

Koastal Karaoke Host Dave Rossetti

Friday, April 26th 8-12pm
Oasis Pub and Eatery
5661 Spring Garden Rd.
Downtown Halifax

 

The Convergence
of Two Cultures


Artist Jude Caborn Presents The Surprising Similarities between Nova Scotia and Cuba.

Additional tours by the artist throughout the week. Paintings of Pinar del Rio in Cuba and of Nova Scotia. The show highlights aspects of everyday life in Cuba and NS and explores the similarities and differences of two places where people share a life of “making do.”

Exhibit, and Building, is open during regular office hours (Approximately 9-5 Mon. through Fri.)

Special: Artist will be in Attendance, On Tuesday April 30th 3-6pm and Friday May 3rd, 4-7 pm.


Opening April 28th, 2pm – 4pm OPEN
Runs to May 5th
2nd Floor 3700 Kempt Rd

 

Puppets etc.
MayDay Parade!

With Sculptural Puppet Makers &
Performance Artists: Puppets etc.
 

Performance will consist of several short agit-prop plays, during and along the route of this year’s Mayday Parade and March.

This work will be informed by the specific history of Mayday.

MayDay Parade!

This is also the Event Listing for The MayDay Parade, please all come out for the growing annual event.

Wednesday, May 1st at 5pm
On the Grand Parade

DaPoPo Theatre Company

Returns to Mayworks!
Dapopo Always Sells Out (in the good way!)
 

Theatrical Treats Tailored to Taste. Theatre delivered to the audience.

DaPoPo Theatre’s signature performance night, Café DaPoPo, has something to say! Come check out our menu to commemorate Halifax’s Mayworks Festival … presented at Bearly’s on Barrington.

Café DaPoPo’s unique performance style offers a menu of theatrical treats to be performed live at your table. Songs, scenes, monologues, puppets… there’s something for everybody.

“All theatre is political.” (Augusto Boal) This is the tenet of our Mayworks labour-themed Café. Yet often the actual political content is invisible, or camouflaged. Our job for Mayworks is to unpack that content and reveal it.

 

Thursday, May 2nd 6pm – 9pm
At Bearly’s on Barrington
$5.00 Cover Charge

 

East Coast Book Launch
“Raising the Workers Flag”

rtwfThe Book will Brought to Life in Song & Theatrical Readings
An East Coast book launch of “Raising the Workers Flag” ~ presented as an afternoon of working-class history, brought to life through songs and theatrical readings from the book.

Saturday, May 4th, 2pm – 5pm
The Company House