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Mayworks ’86

File consists of a programme and other publicity material for the Mayworks festival, which included the Canadian Farmworkers Union exhibit “Art for Organizing” by Craig Berggold.

Art for Organizing

Item is a poster for an exhibit curated by Craig Berggold at A Space Gallery, Toronto, in conjunction with the Mayworks Festival of Working People and the Arts. The exhibit included the photograph series “I would like to tell you a story… Health and Safety Regulations NOW!” by Berggold, documentary photographs of Ontario tobacco workers by Carole Conde and Karl Beveridge, an ESL banner by David Jackson, the film To Pick is Not to Choose by John Greyson, the film A Time to Rise by Anand Patwardhan and Jim Munro, and bhangra dance photographs by Paul Binning.

Project files and photographs

Sub-series consists of proposals, reports, correspondence, and photographs relating to projects both internal and external, undertaken or contributed to by the Canadian Farmworkers Union and its members. These projects include cultural events, educational programs, photography projects and exhibits, and documentary videos, as well as research-based awareness projects. Records include production and event photographs, planning documents, and reports.

Records in this sub-series include material relating to the films A Time to Rise (Uthan da Vaila) (1981), produced and directed by Anand Patwardhan and Jim Munro with assistance from the National Film Board (NFB), which documented the history of the farmworkers’ struggle and the Canadian Farmworkers Union; Farmworkers Zindabad! (1985), written and directed by Craig Berggold and Sukhwant Hundal, which dramatized the Hoss Farming Company strike of 1984; and To Pick is Not to Choose (1985), directed by John Greyson for Tolpuddle Farm Labour Information Centre in Ontario. Also included are records relating to the photography exhibits “A Time to Change: South Asian Farmworkers of the Fraser Valley” (originally created in 1983 and exhibited numerous times) and “I would like to tell you a story… Health & Safety Regulations NOW!” (1986) by Craig Berggold. The sub-series also includes records of a health and safety campaign as well as the Technology Impact Program (TIP), a research project which gathered information about pesticide use on berry farms in BC.

Abbotsford workshop [photographs]

File consists of 31 photographic prints and 27 negatives of a workshop for farmworkers about pesticides and daycare, co-sponsored by the BC Human Rights Coalition, Association of Multicultural Societies, and Social Service Agencies of BC.

General programming correspondence, photographs, and educational material

Sub-series consists of funding information, correspondence, and other planning material relating to Canadian Farmworkers Union programs such as educational programs and awareness campaigns. Records include grant applications, photographs of educational events, and an educational slide presentation with audio cassette soundtrack.

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