Western Workers Heritage Festival - 1/18 - 20, SF CA
Richard
Friends,
Below is information sent out by west coast-based organizer and labor
chorus leader Bobbie Rabinowitz. It concerns a wonderful event
occuring this month in San Francisco, THE WESTERN WORKERS HERITAGE
FESTIVAL. Please alert your contacts on the west coast about this
one---they will not want to miss it...
In Solidarity, John Pietaro - www.flamesofdiscontent.org
Subject: Western Workers Labor Heritage Festival, January 18 - 20,
2008 - Please Publicize
Music, drama, visual arts, spoken word, poetry, photography and
more! 2008 festival program Workshops and presentations
Art Display: photographs of farmworkers and Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Jon Kouns; display on labor's history of war opposition by Lincoln
Cushing and Mike Eisenscher; Richard Bermack's photographs of Spanish
Civil War veterans.
Friday, January 18
6 pm Registration opens
7-10 pm Solidarity Circle (song, poetry, and story swap)
Saturday, January 19
9-10 am Muffins, juice, coffee available - donations please; informal
songswap/arts exchange
10-noon Workshops
* "School of the Americas Watch: The Most Singing Movement" with Jon
Fromer and friends; Excerpts from the Bay Area Rockin' Solidarity
Labor Heritage Chorus's new performance piece on immigration; and
"Work Tales" by the Labor Drama Workshop, City College of San
Francisco, Labor and Community Studies department.
* "Social Justice Photography" with Jon Kouns and Richard Bermack
(Spanish Civil War veterans and the struggles against fascism)
* Film (to be announced)
Noon - 1 pm Lunch - Sandwiches and salad available at a reasonable
price
1:15 - 1:45 pm Roy Zimmerman performs topical satire
2-3:30 pm Workshops
* Spoken Word Workshop with Civil Defense Poetry (formerly Molotov
Mouths).
* "Labor Landmarks and a Look Back to 1968", Labor Archives Research
Center
* Film (to be announced)
4-5:30 pm Workshops
* "New Generation Labor Organizing" with Alex Tom, Chinese Progressive
Association and Sonya Mehta, Young Workers United, with videos on
Monster Workers and "Eyes on the Fries".
* "Songwriting" with Jon Fromer, Bev Grant, and Roy Zimmerman
* "Preserving Labor Culture: Two Initiatives" Art/Works : American
Labor Posters by Lincoln Cushing and Tim Drescher & American Labor
Movement & Working Class Museum in Sacramento by Joe and Shirley
Moore
* Film: To be announced
5:30-7 pm Dinner - Hot meal available at a reasonable price
7-10 pm Arts Exchange
* Featured performers: Freedom Song Network; Jack Hirschman,
immediate past Poet Laureate of San Francisco.
7:30-8:30 Bumper Sticker workshop with Lincoln Cushing (concurrent
with Arts Exchange)
Sunday, January 20
9-10 am Muffins, juice, coffee available - donations please; informal
songswap/arts exchange
10-11:30 Workshops
* Drama workshop, leading to performance in evening concert
Noon - 1 pm Lunch - Sandwiches and salad available at a reasonable
price
1:30-2:30 pm Mid-Day Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Featured
performer: Jimmy Collier 3-4:45 pm Practice for concert performance
Drama group from morning workshop; chorus group, led by Jon Fromer
5-6 pm Dinner - Hot meal available at reasonable price
7 pm Benefit Concert, with Aya de Leon, MC
* Featured performers: Vukani Muwethu, Jimmy Collier, Bev Grant
* Labor Art award to Vukani Muwethu
* Proceeds going to Young Workers United to assist low-wage workers
and the Chinese Progressive Association for work with Monster Cable
workers. 22nd Annual Western Workers Labor Heritage Festival
Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s contribution to the civil rights
and labor movements A weekend of solidarity in an era of war,
racism, and hard times.
January 18-20, 2008 SEIU Local 1021/("Ten to One") building across
street from 350 Kansas Street (between 16th and 17th Streets), San
Francisco, California <map> site is wheelchair re>
For more information, (including hotels and transportation) contact
coordinator Kendyll Stansbury.
BART directions: Get off at the 16th Street BART station. The 22 bus
stops at the corner by Wells Fargo. Get on it and get off at 17th St.
and Kansas. Walk back down Kansas the direction the bus was going.
There will be signs; the entrance to the building is across from 350
Kansas.
Driving directions: North on 101 to Vermont St. exit, at first
intersection turn left down Vermont St., turn right on 17th, drive one
block to Kansas St. turn left. SEIU 1021 Hall is down about half a
block. From East Bay via 80, take Ninth St./Civic Center exit, bear
left, then turn left onto 8th St. go about 2 and a half blocks enter
roundabout then exit onto Kansas St., SEIU Hall is midway between 16th
and 17th Sts. South on 101, through the city on Van Ness, left on
Fell, right on 10th Street, left on Division to roundabout exit onto
Kansas St., SEIU Hall is midway between 16th and 17th Sts.
Local hotel information : Cathedral Hill Hotel, 1101 Van Ness Avenue;
rooms $75 a night if you mention the Festival. 415-776-8200 or
800-622-0855. We will offer limited shuttle service to and from the
hotel in the morning and at night.
Volunteers are needed to help with transportation, housing, and food
in exchange for registration fees - please contact coordinator Kendyll
Stansbury. Sponsors include the AFL-CIO Central Labor Councils &
Unions of the greater Bay Area, the Labor Heritage Foundation, and
others.