8 Marzo
Liang Rongfa
l'incendio dell'industria tessile "Triangle Shirtwaist", avvenuto il 25
Marzo 1911, e nel quale morirono 146 lavoratrici, molte delle quali
immigrate italiane ed ebree.
L'evento verra' commemorato a New York l'8 Marzo dal Collettivo delle Donne
Italoamericane, dalla Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo', e dall'Universita' di
New York, col programma allegato.
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TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FACTORY FIRE WILL BE COMMEMORATED
MARCH 8, 2001 WITH ON-SITE AND CASA ITALIANA EVENTS
--Gathering at Greene Street to be followed by presentations
on America's great labor tragedy--
NEW YORK, January 2001 -- On March 8, celebrated internationally as
Woman's Day, the Collective of Italian American Women and Casa Italiana
Zerilli-Marimo' at New York University are co-sponsoring a commemoration
of the notorious Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, which took the lives of 146
factory workers_mainly Italian and Jewish immigrant teenage girls_on March
25, 1911. The tragedy, caused by locked doors and other unsafe working
conditions, changed the face of the American labor union movement and led
to major new laws governing the workplace.
This free event, open to the public, begins on Thursday, March 8 at 5:30
p.m. with a gathering at the Triangle shirtwaist factory site on Greene
Street, one block east of Washington Place. Phyllis Capello, a poet and
musician, will sing songs from the labor movement of the early 20th
century, followed by Gioia Timpanelli, a storyteller and author, who will
recount the events leading to the fire.
The second part of the commemoration will take place in the Casa Italiana
Zerilli-Marimo_ Auditorium at New York University, 24 West 12th Street
(Tel. 212 998-8739). The program is expected to conclude by 8 p.m.
Casa Italiana Program:
1. Introduction by Stefano Albertini, Director, Casa Italiana, New York
University
2. Remembering the Triangle Fire--video interviews by Kym Ragusa, CIAW.
Ms. Ragusa will also speak on the Collective of Italian American Women.
3. "The Place of Memory," Edvige Giunta, CIAW and New Jersey City
University. Prof. Giunta will place the event in the context of the place
of memory, literally and figuratively, in history, especially the history
of women, minorities and the working class, as well as in the context of
the work of the Collective of Italian American Women.
4. "Dreams and Ashes: The Young Immigrant Women Who Worked at Triangle,"
Annelise Orleck, Dartmouth College. Her talk will focus on some of the
young women then working at Triangle, many of whom were relatively
skilled, had a history of labor organizing, and were supporting families
in Europe or New York. This contrasts sharply with the debased way the
Triangle Factory dead were represented by factory owners during the trial
that followed the fire.
5. "Learning from Seamstresses: Past and Present," Jennifer Guglielmo,
CIAW and Department of History, University of Minnesota. The presentation
will link women's struggles in the garment industry at the turn of the
century to contemporary transnational movements among seamstresses against
exploitation and dehumanization.
The coordinators of Triangle Commemoration event are Stefano Albertini,
Edvige Giunta, and Jennifer Guglielmo. Organizing Committee members are
Nancy Azara, Phyllis Capello, Rosette Capotorto, Joshua Fausty, Loryn
Lipari, Kym Ragusa, Maria Terrone and Mary Ann Trasciatti.
The Collective of Italian American Women (CIAW), event co-sponsor,
promotes "creative, intellectual, cultural and community projects
undertaken by and about Italian American women, particularly collaborative
projects." CIAW, which welcomes new members, was integral to the
groundbreaking cross-disciplinary series of events last spring, "Italian
American and Italian Women: 2000," as well as other events in New York,
New Jersey and Massachusetts co-sponsored with organizations including
Fordham University, Casa Italiana at NYU, Bluestocking Bookstore, Barnes &
Noble, The Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College, Com.It.Es,
and the Museum of Immigration at Ellis Island.
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marim~, event co-sponsor and host, is a center for
the dissemination of Italian culture and home of the Department of Italian
Studies at New York University. Casa conducts a regular program of events
throughout the academic year, bringing well-known Italian scholars,
political figures, journalists, scientists, artists and musicians into
contact with those interested in Italian life and issues.
Background of Presenters:
Phyllis Capello, aka "Ukulele Lady," is a writer, musician and storyteller
who performs for children in hospitals with the Big Apple Circus Clown
Care Unit and has worked, as writer-in-residence, for Teachers and Writers
Collaborative, Poets in Public Service, The Vineyard Theatre, The New York
City Ballet Education Department, Project Read, The Children's Museum of
Manhattan, Arts Partners, and New York City Board of Education. Her
storytelling series helped the Brooklyn Museum of Art celebrate its
centennial year. Her work as educational consultant on family cruises has
taken her from Ireland to Istanbul. Ms. Capello_s poetry and prose have
appeared in many anthologies and literary magazines, including: The Dream
Book: An Anthology of Writings by Italian American Women; From the Margin:
Writings in Italian Americana; The Paterson Literary Review; Journey Into
Motherhood; The New York Quarterly; VIA: Voices in Italian Americana; The
Voices We Carry: Recent Fiction by Italian American Women Writers; The
Little Magazine; and Mothering. She's a New York Foundation for the Arts
Fellow and a prizewinner in the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards.
Edvige Giunta is assistant professor of English at New Jersey City
University, where she teaches memoir. She is an active member of the
Collective of Italian American Women. Her articles and reviews about
Italian American women authors, and her poetry and memoir have appeared in
many journals and anthologies. She has edited a special issue of Voices in
Italian Americana devoted to women authors and co-edited A Tavola: Food,
Tradition and Community Among Italian Americans. She has written the
afterword for the reprints of such Italian American classics as Helen
Barolini_s Umbertina and Tina De Rosa_s Paper Fish. She is co-editor, with
Louise DeSalvo, of an upcoming anthology of writings by Italian American
women
about food (The Feminist Press) and, with Maria Rosa Cutrufelli and
Caterina Romeo, of a special issue of TutteStorie devoted to Italian
American women. She is completing a book on contemporary Italian American
women writers, Writing with an Accent, to be published by St. Martin_s
Press. Her profile recently appeared in The New York Times.
Jennifer Guglielmo is a doctoral candidate in history at the University of
Minnesota and an active member of the Collective of Italian American
Women. She is currently finishing her dissertation, "Negotiating Gender,
Race, and Coalition: Italian Women and Working-Class Politics in New York
City, 1880-1945" with fellowships by the American Association of
University Women and the Social Science Research Council. Her publications
include the following: "Lavoratrici Coscienti: Italian Women Garment
Workers and the Politics of Labor Organizing in New York City,
1890s-1930s" in Foreign, Female, and Fighting Back: Women and the Italian
Diaspora, eds. Donna Gabaccia and Franca Iacovetta (forthcoming,
University of Toronto Press); "Donne Ribelli: Recovering the History of
Italian Women's Radicalism in the United States," in The Lost World of
Italian American Radicalism: Culture, Politics, History, eds. Philip
Cannistraro and Gerald Meyer (forthcoming, State University of New York
Press); "The History of Italian Women; Political Activism in New York
City, 1890s-1940s" in The Italians of NewYork: Five Centuries of Struggle
and Achievement, ed. Philip Cannistraro (Milan: Mondadori, 1999); "Donne
Sovversive: Remembering the History of Italian Women's Radicalism in the
United States," Italian America (September 1997). She is also co-editing a
collections of essays on Italians and politics of race in the United States.
Annelise Orleck is the author of Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and
Working Class Politics in the United States (1995); and The Soviet Jewish
Americans (1999). She is co-editor of The Politics of Motherhood: Activist
Voices from Left to Right (1997). She teaches history and Women_s Studies
at Dartmouth College. Her grandmother, Lena Orleck, worked at the Triangle
Shirtwaist Factory. Orleck has recently been active in the campaign to win
equal marriage, inheritance and custody rights for same sex couples and to
make schools safer for gay youth and children of gay families. Her current
work focuses on women's anti-poverty organizing in Las Vegas, Nevada and
throughout the U.S.
Kym Ragusa is a New York-based filmmaker, teacher, and curator and an
active member of the Collective of American Women. Originally from the
Bronx, she is of Sicilian and African-American descent. Much of her work
deals with the representation of and relationship between these two
communities. Her videos include Passing (broadcast on PBS) and
fuori/outside. In 1999 she received a New York Foundation for the Arts
fellowship. She is the coordinator of malafemmina: video and film
festival, which will take place at Casa Italiana this May.
Gioia Timpanelli is a major force behind the worldwide revival of
storytelling. Often called the "Dean of American storytelling," she won
two Emmy Awards for her work_creating, writing, producing and appearing in
eight series of literature programs on PBS. She has appeared on BBC, RAI,
PBS, WNYC. She also received the prestigious Women_s National Book
Association Award for bringing the oral tradition to the American public,
and the Maharishi Award for "promoting world harmony." She is the author
of Sometimes the Soul: Two Novellas of Sicily (Norton), winner of the
American Book Award. She has appeared with such figures as Robert Bly,
James Hillman, Joseph Campbell, and Gary Snyder and in such venues as the
Spoleto Festival, The Metropolitan Museum of the Arts, the Museum of
Modern Art, the Santuario de Guadalupe in Santa Fe, the 1980 Winter
Olympics and many others. In addition, she has published a book of Tibetan
stories, Tales from the Roof of the World. Articles about her work have
appeared in The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The New Yorker, and
other publications.
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: Stefano Albertini, Director, Casa Italiana,
Tel. (212) 998 8730, Fax (212) 995 4012 OR Edvige Giunta, Collective of
Italian American Women, Tel. (201) 200-3086, egi...@njcu.edu
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