Radical Housewives, Book Club: 2022-03-24

Mar 24, 2022 | Events & Presentations

ACTORS from BIPOC COMMUNITIES Wanted!

Oct 13, 2021 | Announcement, Event, Projects of TWHP, Theatre Group

ARE YOU:• a social justice activist?• a labour/union supporter?• a lover of community theatre? and• Indigenous, Black, or a Person of Colour? Then the Toronto Workers’ Theatre Group WANTS YOU!!!  It’s been a long wait to get back on the boards and the theatre group of...

THE STRUGGLE FOR CHILD CARE

Oct 5, 2021 | Uncategorised

Tuesday 12 October 7 pm on ZOOM A new federally sponsored child-care program is unfolding across Canada. This initiative didn’t fall from the sky – it’s the result of decades of agitation by child-care activists in Toronto and the rest of the country. We are bringing...

ONTARIO’S BLACK TEACHERS – Negotiating the politics of Black Women’s Professional Working Lives

Jun 4, 2021 | Event

This presentation features the stories of Black women teachers in 20th century Ontario. Considering that labour and employment were important markers in Black women’s lives, this presentation will rethink access to employment and uncover the ways Black women teachers...

Hotel Workers Rising: From the 1961 Royal York Hotel Strike to present day struggles

May 31, 2021 | Event

It was a year-long strike and a bitter strike at the prestigious Royal York Hotel in downtown Toronto. Many of the workers were immigrants, people of colour and mostly, they were women. Join us for this fascinating presentation as race, gender and class play...