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Newsline: May 2005 May is Labor History Month Check out these Labor History Activities around New York City in May and June (For free copies of this calendar, call George Altomare 212-598-7772). About the New York Labor History Association: NYLHA was founded in 1975 to bring together individuals and institutions interested in the history of working people, their organizations, and their struggles for a better life and society in New York State. NYLHA strives to make labor history a vital and ever-present part of our culture. Membership in NYLHA is open to anyone interested in labor history. Send $20 (students/seniors $10) to: Philoine Fried, 351 West 24th St., NY, NY 10011. EXHIBITIONS Painting Labor’s History An Exhibit by Michael Conner Cornell Conference Center 16 E. 34th St., 6th fl. NYC May 5 – 31 Mon. – Fri. 9 – 7 Artist Michael Conner, union electrician and member of the Scenic Artists, met artist Ralph Fasanella, was inspired and started painting in 1997. Free! El Barrio: Puerto Rican New York Museum of the City of New York 1220 Fifth Ave. @ 103rd St., NYC Tues. – Sun. 10 – 5 Through June 12 Hiram S. Maristany’s 1960’s and 1970s photo images of “El Barrio,” incubator of Puerto Rican identity for 800,000 New Yorkers of Puerto Rican heritage. $7; seniors/students $5; families $15. 212-534-1672. On the Streets: New York’s Trolleys and Buses New York Transit Museum Boerum Place and Schermerhorn St., Brooklyn Heights Tues. – Fri. 10 – 4; Sat. & Sun. 12 – 4 Cutouts of bus supervisors, cleaners, mechanics, managers and dispatchers who work in the department of buses. Recorded overviews of the work they do and how they keep the buses rolling. $5; seniors and children 3 to 17 $3. 718-694-1600. http://www.mta.info/mta/museum/ Have You Eaten Yet? The Chinese Restaurant in America Museum of Chinese in the Americas 70 Mulberry St., 2nd Floor, NYC Tues. – Sun. noon – 6; Fri. noon – 7 Through June 2005 Traces the Chinese restaurant’s origin and growth in America, historical menu collections, travel diary entries, and Chinese food myths. $3; seniors/students $1; children under 12: free. Free Fridays! 212-619-4785. info@moca-nyc.org. Dualism in America An Installation by Wendy W. Fok Lower East Side Tenement Museum 90 Orchard St., NYC Mon. 11 – 5:30; Tues – Fri. 11 – 6; Sat. - Sun. 10:45 – 6 Through June 6, 2005 Contrasts the “American Dream” with the reality of U.S. immigrant life and American consumer culture from the perspective of recent immigrants living on the Lower East Side. $13; seniors/students $11. 212-431-0233. On Location: New York Transportation in Film New York Transit Museum’s Gallery Annex Grand Central Terminal, 42 St. and Park Ave. Mon. – Fri. 8 – 8; Sat. – Sun. 10 – 6 May 9 through October 30, 2005 Multimedia installation shows filmmakers’ clips of NYC’s bridges, tunnels, subways and buses. Free! 212-878-0106. Solidarity Forever: A Look at Wobbly Culture www.laborarts.org Online exhibit celebrates the vibrant folk culture of the IWW of the early 20th Century. The exhibit, at LaborArts.org, a Web museum dedicated to presenting art by and about working people, features cartoons, graphic art, songs and poetry. Contact Rachel Bernstein and Henry Foner: 212-998-2637. info@laborarts.org EVENTS Thursday, May 12, 7 p.m. Kirk Kelly’s GO TIME! Multimedia performance/review/benefit for the IWW/Starbucks Organizing Campaign. Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery @ Bleecker St. $10. 212-614-0505. maydayfest@yahoo.com Saturday, May 14, 2 p.m. Brooklyn Works: 400 Years of Making a Living in Brooklyn Docent-led tour: family-centered, interactive exhibition chronicles the lives of the people of Brooklyn -- their occupations, the many challenges they faced, their resilience -- and how Brooklyn’s workforce has contributed to shaping the nation. Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont St., Brooklyn, N.Y. $6; seniors/students $4; Wed. – Sat. 10 – 5; Sun. 12 – 5. 718-222-4111. Sunday, May 15, 10 a.m. Brooklyn Navy Yard and Vinegar Hill Guided bus tour of Brooklyn’s Navy Yard -- 40 buildings, 4 operating dry docks and 5 active piers -- now houses 200 businesses employing thousands of workers; moviemaking, shipbuilding, architectural services, furniture design and manufacturing. Neighborhood walking tour of Vinegar Hill, 19th-century home to Irish and other ethnic immigrant workers on the Brooklyn waterfront. Meet: 9:45 a.m. at BHS. Prepaid reservations only $45. 718-222-4111, x 250. Sunday May 15, 1 p.m. Harlem: Radical Walking Tour Malcolm X and A. Philip Randolph to Marcus Garvey and Fidel Castro; Communist Party, Black Panthers and picketing of business on 125th St. Meet in front of 306 Malcolm X Blvd. (formerly Lenox Ave.), corner of 125th St. Led by Bruce Kayton; $10; no reservations required. 718-492-0069. Monday, May 16, 6 p.m. Third Rail Quill Reading of a new play by Susan Mosakowski about Mike Quill and the 1966 transit strike, commissioned by The Working Theatre. Wagner Labor Archives, 10th floor, Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, NYU. 70 Washington Sq. South. Free! 212-340-2817. Thursday, May 19, 1:30 p.m. Irish Railroad Workers on the O & W Patrick McElligott on the O & W’s Irish RR workers. Luncheon $11. Reservations requested by 5/17. Delaware County Historical Assoc. Delhi, NY. Venue: TBA 607-746-3849. dcha@delhi.net Monday, May 23, 6 p.m. Disconnect The Working Theatre’s new play by Rob Ackerman about love, friendship and telecommunications: near strangers invited to a telecommunications consultant’s hastily arranged dinner party. Through June 25, 2005. East 13th Street Theater, 136 E. 13th St. NYC. Discounts for union groups, students and retirees. 212-539-5675 or 212-279-4200. www.ticketcentral.com Monday, May 30, 7 p.m. Triangle: The Fire That Changed America WBAI, 99.5 FM. Tragic 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and its effect on the labor movement. Ken Nash: 212-815-1699. knish@igc.org Saturday, June 11, 7 p.m. NYC Labor Chorus Benefit Concert Over 80 members representing 25 different locals. The NYC Labor Chorus celebrates labor’s cry for solidarity through song. In true union, folk, gospel, classical tradition, the chorus will perform at The Graduate Center, CUNY. 385 Fifth Ave. at East 34th St. $25; seniors and unemployed $15. 212-929-3232. |
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