Precarious Festival

Precarious workers are those who fill permanent job needs but are denied permanent employee rights. Why is so much creative labour precarious? What are the consequences of increasing precariousness for work of all kinds across the board? Precarious: Peterborough ArtsWORK Festival approaches these questions through creativity and dialogue. Theatre, literature, dance, visual art, panel discussions, installation performances, music, and that human thing: talk. Come be part of the conversation!

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Schedule of Events:

Wednesday, October 25, 4-7pm at The Spill Café (414 George St. N)

FESTIVAL LAUNCH

Friday, November 3, 7-10pm at Star X (#5, 129 Hunter Street West)

Salon des Refusés

Visual art by Tara Azzopardi, Jerm IX, Lyall Brownlee, Rosanne Fortin,Daniel Crawford, Leigh MacDonald, Hartley Stephenson

Friday, November 3, 7-10pm at the Commerce Building (129 ½ Hunter Street W – the corner of Water and Hunter)

Peterborough DanceWorks

Site-specific dance works during Gallery Hop:

Victoria Mohr-Blakeney, featuring Sylvie Dasne and Rachael Cardiello: when I think of her

Ryan Kerr: Abstraction No. 129 ½

Kate Story: water bill

Monday November 6, 7-9pm at The Theatre on King: TTOK (159 King St., up the alley and around back)

The Biography Project

Gabe Pollock and Dave Tough of Electric City Magazine

Wednesday, November 8, 8-10 pm at TTOK

cutting out lake huron

Elisha Rubacha

Wednesday, November 8, 9-10 pm at TTOK

Survey Soiree!

Anna Currier of Trent University

Thursday, November 9, 3-6pm, location TBA; stay tuned!

RC4G* presents ROCK BLOCK!

Thursday, November 9, 7:30pm at TTOK

Artists in the Community Coffeehouse

Friday, November 10, 7pm at TTOK

Survey Soiree!

Anna Currier of Trent University

Friday, November 10, 8pm at TTOK

Work, Work, Work: Uncertainty and Precarity in Creative Labour

Presented by Electric City Culture Council (EC3) and the Precarious Festival

Saturday November 11, 12-6pm at Star X

Salon des Refusés

Visual art by Tara Azzopardi, Jerm IX, Lyall Brownlee, Rosanne Fortin, Daniel Crawford, Leigh MacDonald, Hartley Stephenson

Monday, November 13, 7pm at TTOK

Survey Soiree!

Anna Currier of Trent University

Monday, November 13, 8pm at TTOK

Basic Income Guarantee

Jason Hartwick of the Basic Income Peterborough Network

Monday, November 13-Tuesday November 14, 6-8pm; Wednesday, November 15 matinee, 12-2pm at Artspace (378 Aylmer St. N)

Neighbours/Voisins

Ring O’ Rosie

Saturday November 18, 12-6pm at Star X

Salon des Refusés

Visual art by Tara Azzopardi, Jerm IX, Lyall Brownlee, Rosanne Fortin,Daniel Crawford, Leigh MacDonald, Hartley Stephenson

Monday, November 20, 7:30 pm at Market Hall (140 Charlotte St.)

Public Energy presents Writing as Resistance: a public talk by Chris Hedges.

Tuesday, November 21, 8pm at TTOK

Precarity and Shame

Sponsored by CUPE Local 3908, Kawartha Pineridge Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario and the Peterborough District Labour Council

Thursday, November 23, 3-6pm at The Spill Café

RC4G* presents ROCK BLOCK!

Saturday, November 25, 12-6pm at Star X

Salon des Refusés

Visual art by Tara Azzopardi, Jerm IX, Lyall Brownlee, Rosanne Fortin,Daniel Crawford, Leigh MacDonald, Hartley Stephenson

Saturday, November 25, 8pm and 9:30pm at TTOK

Crime City!

Sunday-Tuesday, November 26-28, 8pm at TTOK

Invisible

Eryn Lidster

Sunday, November 26, 8pm at The Garnet (231 Hunter St W)

Show and Tell Poetry Series: KEYBOARDS!

Justin Million

Thursday, November 30, 8pm at The Garnet

Show and Tell Poetry Series: STPS Showcase

Thursday-Saturday, November 30-December 2 at 8pm, with a 2pm matinee on Saturday at TTOK

The Nervous System brings you Festivus Rattus Rattus 2035!