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Opening Reception – Off the Beaten Path: Mapping Labour and Race in Hamilton
					
 Apr 7, 2025 
 2:30PM to 4:30PM

									

				

					Event Categories   Community Engagement,   Get Experience, and   Work & Labour Studies
				

			


	

	

		

			

				

					

						

							Off the Beaten Path: Mapping Labour and Race in Hamilton							

															

						

						

	

		


	Date/Time

	Date(s) - 07/04/2025
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm







Off the Beaten Path: Mapping Labour and Race in Hamilton


In collaboration with Workers Arts & Heritage Centre (WAHC), McMaster School of Labour Studies presents Off the Beaten Path: Mapping Labour and Race in Hamilton.


All faculty, staff, students, and community members are invited to attend the opening reception:


Date: Monday, April 7, 2025

Time: 2:30 – 4:30 p.m.

Location: Workers Arts and Heritage Centre, 51 Stuart St., Hamilton


Capacity is limited to 50 so please register here if you wish to attend.


More about the exhibit

Labour Studies students in Dr. Tommy Wu’s LABRST 2J03 Work and Racism class created songs, poems, and other artistic mediums on story maps to tell suppressed stories of injustice and resilience in Hamilton.


Off the Beaten Path is a mapping database that collects those personal stories and historical events of everyday Hamiltonians through the lens of labour and race.


The exhibit runs April 9 – December 19, 2025. As an open living project, visitors are encouraged to interact with the digital map and share their history in Hamilton with this collection in efforts to build a people’s collective memory of the city.