CLiF Screenings (2023)

CLiF Screenings (2023)

Canadian Labour International Film Festival TWHP Screening: Sunday, November 26th, 7:30 PM (ET) TWHP is again pleased to participate in the Canadian Labour International Film Festival. We have arranged for seven (7) screenings – all of the films in each program...
Sweep and Say Union!

Sweep and Say Union!

“The people united will never be defeated.” That was the chant of determined women strikers in the streets of Toronto nearly forty years ago. This play brings to life the struggles for justice waged by 250 women cleaners working at First Canadian Place in...
Davy the Punk

Davy the Punk

TWHP Presents Davy The Punk Join us for a lively evening with esteemed Canadian folksinger, composer and author Bob Bossin Bob will discuss Davy the Punk, his award-winning book about his father’s life in Toronto’s gambling Underworld of the 1930s and ‘40s. Event...
Expressive Acts

Expressive Acts

TWHP presents IN THE STREETS Historian Ian Radforth will talk about his new book, EXPRESSIVE ACTSCelebrations and Demonstrations in the Streets of Victorian Toronto In nineteenth-century Toronto, people took to the streets to express their jubilation on special...
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