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ABOUT WWW.LABOURARTS.CA

LabourArts.ca is a project of the Worker's Art and Heritage Centre working in conjunction with the Canadian Labour Congress.


ABOUT WWW.LABOURARTS.CA
LabourArts/ca is designed to create a network for labour artists and labour unions.  It is a way for those involved with the labour and arts movement to get connected and stay connected.

This is an ongoing project, so the website will constantly be changing.

ABOUT LABOUR ART

"Such art can be understood as an element of the union movement and  representation; art can transform workers and help them overcome the barriers they face in trying to make sense of  the 'daily grind' [...]

on a broader level we can argue that the most powerful educational accomplishment—perhaps what lies at the heart of what many of us try to do—is the development of passion

and the belief—might we even say faith?—in solidarity and social justice.

 

What remains a major challenge for labor movements and labor education is not so much how to train activists, but rather how they develop the passion and commitment that fuels them to continue, and how they developed the passion that caused them to emerge in the first place. "

Labour Education and Labour Art: the Hidden Potential of Knowing For the Left Hand by Peter H. Sawchuk


Art can generate that passion.  Art can touch those needed.  Labour and art, people and art, make our societies and cultures what they are.