This is an archived event from Culture Days 2024.
Images
Foreign Dreams
In-person
Date and time
This activity runs the duration of Culture Days.
Location
Workers Arts and Heritage Centre
51 Stuart Street
Hamilton, ON
Directions: GETTING HERE WAHC's address is 51 Stuart Street, Hamilton, ON, L8L 1B5. Located in the historic Custom House beside Hamilton’s West Harbour GO station, you can get here easily on the Lakeshore West line via GO transit. Hamilton’s HSR bus lines and Sobi bicycle share options are also available nearby. You will find free parking on both sides of Stuart Street and in the nearby West Harbour GO parking lot. Our main entrance is now the east-side door. Look for our accessible entrance with the ramp!.
Access
Free.
Offered in English.
Wheelchair accessible and has gender-neutral washrooms.
About
Simranpreet Kaur Anand with Conner Singh VanderBeek’s exhibition Foreign Dreams explores how young people, particularly from the region of Punjab in India, are sold on the dream of migration to Canada for economic opportunity.
Toiling in financial precarity, international students fill fast food, transit, agriculture, construction, and security jobs in Canada. The artists ask us to consider the tolls - financial, cultural, familial, physical and psychological - to young people who turn their dreams of migration into reality. What is the cost of their migration? Who wins, who loses, and who pays?
Kaur Anand and Singh VanderBeek worked as Artists-in-Residence at WAHC in July of 2024. While in residence in the GTHA, they connected with community partners Laadliyan and Naujawan Support Network to develop their artistic vision for this exhibition. As a complement to their exhibition in the CUPE/SCFP Gallery, the artists have also curated a related exhibition in our Community Gallery.
Links
- Foreign Dreams wahc-museum.ca
Organizer
Workers Arts and Heritage Centre
The Workers Arts and Heritage Centre was started over 25 years ago by an ambitious and dynamic group of labour historians, artists, and union and community activists who saw a need for a community museum that could celebrate the history of workers and labour. Over the years, we have expanded our vision of work to include both paid and unpaid work, and to be as inclusive as possible of the experiences and histories of the least visible work and workers. As a community museum and arts centre, we offer a diverse array of exhibitions, workshops, educational programs, digital projects, and community events that explore perspectives in labour history, social justice, and contemporary labour issues.