Working Class Lab

For the unjustly resilient and the radically disappointed who can’t afford giving up, this lab may be for you.

In the sanitized world of the arts industry where salaries and privileges are hidden, where living wages and progress are denied, and the discourse of change is led by monied elites, this lab is a space for us to confront empty representation and what is often silenced in the presence of power and greed. 

For 6 months we’ll talk about money, class and the “isms” that work for and against us. We will explore and break down how funding bodies distribute money towards low-income and precarious communities. We will analyze our relationships to class and debt. We will try to figure out what practical possibilities can emerge from our time together. 

This lab is for those who: 

• Identify as working class and precarious dance and/or interdisciplinary artists who do not come from generational wealth
• Seek to build economies of solidarity between working-class communities beyond the arts market
• Want to build a wider awareness of class conditions
• Wish to advocate for better labour protections and living wages with less fear 

Important dates and details: 

• A fee of $2000 each will be provided for up to 6 participants
• Meetings will take place twice a month 
• Monday February 13, 2023 – Monday July 31, 2023 
• This is an ONLINE program
• There will be a showing of our time together

We will choose the format of our sharings