Mayworks Festival: A Garden and a Library Planting Workshop

Gathering in an outdoor courtyard, we invite you to a workshop on disability justice led by organizer Sahra Soudi followed by an interactive artist talk with Atanas Bozdarov.

Over the past year, Atanas Bozdarov has worked closely with Disability Justice Network of Ontario to develop A Garden and a Library; a portable flower garden that is structurally designed to be wheelchair accessible. This project conceptualizes gardening as a counter-labour to capitalist labour while also offering the opportunity for quiet moments of rest. Together, we will plant flowers in the garden and discuss accessible gardening, labour, and restorative practice.

This project was developed through Mayworks’ Labour Arts Catalyst in collaboration with the Disability Justice Network of Ontario.

ASL provided. Outdoor event. Wheelchair accessible with wheelchair accessible, gender neutral washrooms.

Mayworks Festival of Working People & the Arts annually presents new works by a diverse range of artists, who are both workers and activists. We prioritize the participation of artists and audiences from communities facing systemic discrimination. Our programming offers bold, insightful, responses to pressing issues at the intersection of art, social justice and labour. We are actively engaged in a social dialogue that challenges the logics of capitalism, and seeks to reimagine and represent a just future.