NYC Workers Memorial Day/May Day Arts Festival Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit source - Bill Koehnlein originally from Leftmus@aol.com WORKERS ALL! The Workers' Memorial Day--May Day Arts Festival, NYC The First Annual Cultural Celebration in Honor of Labor History Month April 23--May 1 *** April 23, 9:30 PM PADDY ON THE RAILWAY in concert Paddy Reilly's Music Bar 519 2nd Ave (29th St) Kirk Kelly (dubbed "New York's answer to folk-punk troubador Billy Bragg" by the LA Times) teams up with Brian Ritchie of the Violent Femmes in a new combo that puts the fight back into folk music. *** April 26 (Workers Memorial Day), 7:30 PM WORKER WORD readings by Thomas Kelly and Thomas Sullivan Local 802 AF of M Club Room 322 W. 48th St (bet 8th and 9th Aves) Readings by Thomas Kelly, former sandhog and critically acclaimed author of "Payback" and "The Rackets", and NY Press columnist Thomas Sullivan. *** April 27, 7:30 PM Film: "Occupation" Two Boots Den of Cin Theatre 37 Ave A "Occupation" documents the historic 3-week sit-in by the Harvard Living Wage Campaign. The Campaign won unprecedented gains for low-wage workers at the world's richest university, and catapulted the living wage movement to the center of public attention. Discussion to follow. *** April 30, 8 PM Theatre Presentation: "Anna Christie" Tailor Shop Theatre 432 W. 42nd St, 4th Flr Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatization of the search for love and redemption in the rough and tumble world of the post-World War I New York waterfront. Opening night presentation Wed, then runs Thurs-Sat nights through May 18th. *** May 1 (May Day), Noon until 5 PM May Day Concert & Rally Union Square Park (14th St/Broadway) PEACE, JOBS, JUSTICE! The Annual May Day Concert and Rally in historic Union Square. Take the day off and celebrate the cause of solidarity on the international workers' holiday. Now, in the face of Enron, Mid-East carnage, Venezuela's counter-revolution, and the Bush-oil connection, we need it more than ever...Performers include MATT JONES (Founder of the SNCC Freedom Singers), AMINA BARAKA (radical poet), ANNE FEENEY (Labor singer), RAY KORONA (topical songwriter), JOHN PIETARO (Labor activist/musician), KIRK KELLY (punk-folk musician), SANDRA RODRIGUEZ (Feminist composer-playwright), BREAD IS RISING (poetry collective). Plus guest speakers and tabling/networking by progressive organizations. Sponsored by the NY Coalition for Public Works Jobs (718-712-9451) For more info call NY Coalition or write to Cultural Organizer John Pietaro For more info on all events, call the WORKERS ALL! The Workers Memorial Day -- May Day Arts Festival hotline: 212-696-6568 SOLIDARITY NOW...SOLIDARITY FOREVER {remember: May is Labor History Month} ********************************************************************* "The first duty of a revolutionary is to be educated." --José Martí ********************************************************************* The Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory http://www.toplab.org ********************************************************************* ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: nyt@blythe.org ================================================================= nytlab-04.17.02-04:50:55-8706