Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition

Casa Italiana at NYU Hosts Triangle Fire Memorial Exhibition
2023-10-09 00:00 - 2024-03-29 23:59 (America/New_York) | Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, 24 West 12th Street, New York, New York, 10011, United States
NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò and Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition

Present

Collective Ribbon:The Interwoven Voices of the Triangle Fire Memorial

October 9, 2023 – December 15, 2023

An Exhibition Curated byRichard Joon Yoo and Uri WegmanCo-designers of the Triangle Fire Memorial

Special Note: Exhibition includes a sewing machine that survived the 1911 Triangle Fire

On viewOctober 9, 2023 – March 29, 2024Mon-Fri 10-6

A permanent memorial for the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire is being erected on the site of the fire near Washington Square, more than a century after the fire and neglect killed 146 workers, mainly young immigrant women of Italian and Jewish descent. The “Collective Ribbon” exhibition tells the story of a unique participatory process in the design of the memorial. Our community of people from all walks of life came together and sewed a long ribbon made of hundreds of pieces of fabric. Gathered across long rows of sewing tables, the participants created a tapestry of personal fragments, stories and memories of the Triangle Fire. The texture of this collective ribbon is now etched into the steel of the permanent memorial for the Triangle Fire, making a lasting reminder of the many individual voices and stories that were, and still are, interwoven with the story and the legacy of the Triangle Fire. The exhibition offers a glimpse into some of the stories and exchanges that unfolded during the making of the ribbon, and the role of the ribbon as a communal act of commemoration, linking the present to the 1911 Triangle

On view at:Casa Italiana Zerilli-MarimòNew York University24 West 12th Street(btw 5th and 6th Ave)New York, NY 10011

More information at www.casaitaliananyu.org/events/collective-ribbon

Art Exhibition: On the Lower East Side: 28 Remarkable Women...and One Scoundrel
2023-12-03 00:00 - 2024-05-05 23:59
Museum at Eldridge Street12 Eldridge Street New York, NY 10002

The Museum at Eldridge Street is proud to present a new exhibition featuring 29 women who lived or worked on the Lower East Side of New York at the turn of the twentieth century. Their mixed media portraits by artist Adrienne Ottenberg incorporate maps of the Lower East Side neighborhood and are printed on silk or cotton banners that will be hung throughout the Museum’s gallery and historic sanctuary. Stories about the women highlight the work, life, and impact they made culturally, on social justice movements, and more.

Those featured in the exhibition include political activist Frances Perkins, who upon witnessing the tragic Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, took on an influential role in the workers-rights advocacy movement, which led her to eventually become President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Secretary of Labor–the first ever woman cabinet member; suffragette and activist Mabel Ping-Hua Lee who campaigned for women’s rights to vote and was the first Chinese woman in the United States to earn her doctorate; and public healthcare worker Elizabeth Tyler, who was the first Black nurse hired at Henry Street Settlement, and went on later to establish the Stillman House Settlement on Manhattan’s West Side, which provided health care and social services to the Black community in San Juan Hill. The show will be accompanied by an audio guide through Bloomberg Connects in which 29 people–Eldridge docents, staffers, the artist, and descendants of the historic women–speak the parts of those portrayed in the show.

​Adrienne Ottenberg lives and works in New York City. Her work combines traditional drawing and painting with digital media. After many years doing editorial and book illustration, she found herself creating maps, and subsequently earned an MA in geography at CUNY to learn computer mapping. She has illustrated more than a dozen books, created frontispiece maps and endpapers, and created illustrated maps for gallery shows. She is inspired by historical maps and how we each create and bring meaning to the map of our own lives.

More information at www.eldridgestreet.org/lowereastsidewomen

Panel Discussion & Choral Performance: Remarkable Women of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
2024-03-03 15:00 - 17:00
MUSEUM AT ELDRIDGE STREET12 Eldridge Street New York, NY 10002

March 3, 2024 3:00 PM

Celebrate Women’s History Month with the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition and the Museum at Eldridge Street!

Remarkable Women of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

Join us in the Museum’s historic Main Sanctuary on Sunday, March 3rd at 3pm for a panel discussion about the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory disaster, the monumental change it inspired, and the women that led the charge.

We will also be joined by The New York City Labor Chorus, who will both open and close this program with their powerful voices and united message of solidarity.

About this Panel Discussion:

The Museum at Eldridge Street is proud to feature its current exhibition On the Lower East Side: Twenty-Eight Remarkable Women…and One Scoundrel, showcasing the work of artist Adrienne Ottenberg. Portraits printed on silk or cotton include a tableau of street maps depicting the Lower East Side places where these women worked and lived.

In conjunction with Ottenberg’s show, the Museum is hosting a panel discussion moderated by Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition Vice President Rose Imperato, with historians and Coalition members Andi Sosin and Kevin Baker. Adrienne Ottenberg will join these esteemed speakers, and together we will mark 113 years since the March 1911 Fire.

Advance registration is preferred. There are no reserved seats.

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO REGISTER PLEASE CLICK HERE

On the Lower East Side: Twenty-Eight Remarkable Women…and One Scoundrel will be on view Sunday, December 3, 2023 through May 5, 2024. Come to the Museum before the program, or stay afterwards to explore the exhibit!

About the Panel Discussion Leaders:

Adrienne Ottenberg is an artist who finds that the places we live in every day are full of meaning and emotion. She hopes to reveal a fresh perspective on the familiar. For this exhibition, Ottenberg worked with watercolor, colored pencil, ink, and digital media, resulting in individual collage prints. The banners are introspective portraits of each figure, inspired by the neighborhood and how it has been mapped.

Ottenberg lives and works in New York City. After years of editorial and book illustration, she found herself creating maps, and pursued an MA in geography to learn computer mapping. She is inspired by historical maps and how we create and bring meaning to the map of our own lives.

Adrienne Andi Sosin, Ed.D. is a founding member of the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition. She co-edited the Triangle Fire Memorial Dedication Book, Arcadia’s The New York City Triangle Factory Fire, and Organizing the Curriculum: Perspectives on Teaching the American Labor Movement.

Sosin taught Social Studies, English, and Literacy in New York City schools, and Education at Pace University, City College of New York, and Adelphi University. She serves as co-president of the Nassau Reading Council. Andi also curates the Resources page.

Kevin Baker is a historian, novelist, journalist, screenwriter, and playwright. A member of the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition, he is proud to have written the inscription for the new monument at the site of the Fire. A writer and researcher on the Ken Burns documentary, The U.S. and the Holocaust, Baker is also the author or co-author of five works of history and of six novels, including Dreamland, which was inspired by the Triangle Fire.

A contributing editor at Harper’s Magazine, he has written for many major publications in the United States and Europe. Currently, he is at work on a political and cultural history of the United States between the world wars, while his latest book, The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City, will be published by Knopf this month. He lives in New York with his wife, playwright, Ellen Abrams.

Rose Imperato is a long-time member of the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition and currently sits on its board of directors as vice chair. She is honored to be part of the decade-long effort to build the Triangle Fire Memorial to the workers and legacy of the 1911 fire. She is also employed as a special projects coordinator for the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies, an organization she has been a part of since 2012.

For many years, Imperato worked as a radio broadcaster and producer in New York, Texas, and Florida. In Austin, TX, she helped produce the International Women’s Day Community Media Festival: 24 hours of radio, television, and internet programming simulcast on several regional media outlets, all produced by women about issues of interest to women. The Triangle Fire and the history of reform and activism inspired by the tragedy was a focal point of the Festival. Rose holds a master’s degree in communications and a master’s certificate in women’s studies from Syracuse University, and an undergraduate degree from SUNY Stony Brook.

The New York City Labor Chorus, representing over 20 labor unions and District Councils, was founded in 1991 and promotes union solidarity by expressing through song the history and ongoing struggles of workers for economic and social justice. The Chorus’s dynamic repertoire combines the power and culture of union music with the great gospel, jazz, classical and folk traditions.

Organized labor, united with its community allies, is an irrepressible social force. This is the message of the New York City Labor Chorus.

Panel Discussion- Jewish Labor in Early 20th Century NYC: Intersections and Tensions
2024-03-05 18:30 - 20:00
March 5, 6:30 PM

American Jewish Historical Society 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011

Join the American Jewish Historical Society for a discussion on organized and informal Jewish labor movements in early 20th century NYC, addressing factors such as gender, class, race, and religion. Beginning with the internal diversity of the Jewish community and tensions therein, the conversation will expand to include how the Jewish community intersected with other ethnic and cultural groups in the city, both with friction and also solidarity. Panelists include Cameron Black, Alice Kessler-Harris, Tejasvi Nagaraja & Daniel Walkowitz with Mary Anne Trasciatti as moderator.

For more information and to register please click here

Cameron Black (Panelist)- Assistant Professor of Labor Studies at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies.

Alice Kessler- Harris (Panelist) R. Gordon Hoxie Professor Emerita of American History in honor of Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Professor Emerita in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender both at Columbia University.

Tejasvi Nagaraja (Panelist) Assistant Professor of Labor History, Global Labor and Work at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations.

Daniel Walkowitz (Panelist) Professor Emeritus of Social and Cultural Analysis and Professor Emeritus of History at New York University.

Mary Anne Trasciatti (Moderator) President of the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition and Director of Hofstra’s Labor Studies Program and Professor of Rhetoric and Public Advocacy.

Launch of The Ed Vargas Labor Community Legacy Fund
2024-03-07 17:00 - 19:00
Honoring the Legacy of Ed Vargas

Mar 7, 2024, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM

Cornell University ILR School NYC Conference Center570 Lexington Avenue, 12th floorNew York, NY 10022

The Worker Institute’s Ed Vargas Labor Community Legacy Fund seeks to honor the life and legacy of Ed Vargas, a veteran labor leader in New York City with more than 40 years of commitment to economic, political, and social justice for working families in New York, nationally, and internationally.

For more information and to register, please visit www.ilr.cornell.edu/worker-institute

Remembering Kitty Genovese: A Public Forum at Fordham University
2024-03-09 13:00 - 16:00
A public forum remembering Kitty Genovese 60 years later will be held on Saturday, March 9th at Fordham University, 113 West 60th Street, NYC.

The event will look back at the tragedy in New York on March 13, 1964, when young Kitty was murdered near her home while many unhelpful neighbors said “I just did not want to get involved.” In this forum, Kitty’s family is joined by several experts to review and celebrate the life of Ms. Genovese, and how deeply this 1964 tragedy impacted western society. This is a free Event open to the public.

Here is the schedule of events:

1 pm: Welcome: Harold Takooshian, Joseph F. DeMay, Josh Genovese

The tragedy: What happened in 1964?

Kevin Cook, author, Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the bystanders, the crime that changed America (2014).

Marcia M. Gallo, author, No one helped: Kitty Genovese, the 38 witnesses, and the myth of urban apathy (2014).

Janine M. Abel, concerned New Yorker, LuLu LoLo, playwright/actor, performance artist, and activist Josh Genovese, Kitty’s nephew

2 pm: The aftermath: What has happened since 1964?

Andrew Karmen, author, Crime victims: An introduction to victimology (10 ed., 2019)

Harold Takooshian, Fordham University

Curtis Sliwa & Keiji Oda, The Alliance of Guardian Angels

Allison Evans & Zoë Huml, The Heroic Imagination Project

3 pm: Community discussion

Benediction: Rev. Mwamba Daniel Mutale, SJ

Can’t make it to the Event? Join the webinar Here. This is a public forum, free and open to the community.

Read more about the murder of Kitty Genovese Here.

Remember the Triangle Fire: Collective Ribbon Sewing
2024-03-25 14:00 - 16:30
March 25, 2024, 2:00- 4:30 PM

Center for Architecture536 LaGuardia Pl.New York, NY 10012

In this workshop, the public is invited to view original panels of the Triangle Fire Memorial Collective Ribbon and add their pieces of fabric and stories to a new section of the project. The new pieces will be archived and displayed at future events and exhibitions.

For more information and to register, please click here.

Panel Discussion: Making the Triangle Fire Memorial
2024-03-25 18:00 - 20:00
March 25, 2024 at 6:00 PM

Center for Architecture536 LaGuardia Pl.New York, NY 10012

The Center for Architecture together with the Remember The Triangle Fire Coalition and the designers of the memorial, Uri Wegman and Richard Joon Yoo, invite the public to learn about the legacy of the Triangle Fire and the making of the permanent memorial with a special program at the Center for Architecture.

SpeakersWendy Feuer, Assistant Commissioner, NYC Department of TransportationMary Anne Trasciatti, President, Remember the Triangle Fire CoalitionUri Wegman, Designer, Reframing the Sky Triangle Fire MemorialRichard Joon Yoo, Designer, Reframing the Sky Triangle Fire Memorial

For more information and to register, please click here.

It Begins With a Name: Learning to Remember the Triangle Fire
2024-03-26 18:30 - 21:00
Tuesday, March 26 at 6:30 PM

NYU’s Casa Italiana Serilli-Marimo 24 West 12th StreetNew York, NY 10011-8604

Attend in-person or watch online!

Alba Capriati Lecture

It Begins with a NameLearning to Remember the Triangle Fire

A lecture byEdvige Giunta, New Jersey City University

Respondents:Jennifer MerzAuthor of Steadfast: Frances Perkins, Champion of Workers’ Rights

Etrita Abdullahu, dancer

In ENGLISH

Book signing with Edvige Giunta and Jennifer Merz

On March 25, 1911, 146 workers—mostly Eastern European Jewish and Southern Italian immigrant women and girls–died in a fire at the Triangle Waist Company in New York City. The fire, caused by lack of adequate safety measures, had such an impact on public consciousness that it changed US social history. Edvige Giunta considers the question of the memory work surrounding the fire in contemporary times. Drawing on her pedagogical experience as a teacher of memoir as well as a course on the Triangle fire, the co-editor of Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire will present a memoiristic model for writing of the historical past.

Edvige Giunta is the author of Writing with an Accent: Contemporary Italian American Women Authors and coeditor of several anthologies. Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, edited with Mary Anne Trasciatti, received the 2023 Ssuan Koppelman Award for Best Anthology in Feminist Studies in American and Popular Culture. The Italian translation of Talking to the Girls will be published by Iacobelli. She is Professor of English at New Jersey City University where she has created courses on the memoir and the Triangle fire.

Jennifer Merz is an artist, illustrator, and published picture-book writer/illustrator. Her handcrafted collages are made from textured papers, fabrics, and trimmings. She is the author/illustrator of Steadfast: Frances Perkins Champion of Workers’ Rights. When Frances Perkins witnessed New York City’s Triangle Factory fire in 1911, her desire to help workers transformed into a lifelong mission. First woman in a US Cabinet, she was the force behind the New Deal and Social Security.

Etrita Abdullahu is a dancer who graduated from the Joffrey Ballet School. She received her BFA from NJCU, where she choreographed and performed a ballet piece inspired by the Triangle Fire. Her most recent performances were for the Nutcracker Dream with Carole Alexis Ballet Theater where she danced the leading role of Marie.

For more information and to view online, visit www.casaitaliananyu.org

Adelphi University Writers & Readers Festival
2024-04-05 00:00 - 2024-04-06 23:59
A free two-day celebration of storytelling, literature and the power of the written word

* Panels and keynotes with bestselling authors

* Professional development workshops with literary agents, book editors, writing coaches and Adelphi professors

* Conversations with writers and publishing insiders about the art and business of publishing

* Featuring Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition boardmember Kevin Baker

More information at www.adelphi.edu

Spring 2024 Poe Room Event at NYU Law
2024-04-12 18:00 - 20:00
Announcing the Spring 2024 Poe Room Event

Friday, April, 12, 2024 at 6:00 pmNew York University School of Law245 Sullivan Street, Furman Hall, Room 216(Between West 3rd Street and Washington Square South)

Featuring Chris Harcum and LuLu LoLo performing a 10 minute excerpt from Dan Evans’ play “Quote the Raven.”

Also featured will be original performances and readings by Howard Pflanzer, Francie Scanlon, Ras Burnett, Tamari Cheishvili, Miguel Loyola, Nayar Ali, Veronica Uribe -Etxebarria, Ika Santamaria, and Kevin Hughes-Noboa.

This event is free and open to the public, but space is limited and an RSVP is required.

RSVP here.

Please reach out to NYU Community Engagement at 212-998-2400 or community.engagement@nyu.edu with any questions.

DC Labor FilmFest
2024-05-01 00:00 - 2024-05-30 23:59
Organized and presented by the Labor Heritage Foundation and the AFI Silver, this annual series features a wide-ranging selection of films about work, workers and the wider issues affecting workers’ lives.

Tickets and more information at www.laborheritage.org

Clara Lemlich Awards
2024-05-13 16:00 - 17:30
Honoring unsung activists, women who have been working for the larger good all their lives, in the tradition of those who sparked so many reforms in the aftermath of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

Monday May 13, 4-5:30pm

Museum of the City of New York1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd StreetNew York, NY

In person and live-streamed

RSVP – info@LaborArts.org, whether you plan to join in-person or online

2024 honorees:Priscilla Bassett, civil rights activistDorthaan Kirk, champion of jazzTheodora Lacey, integrating schools and housingMuriel Fox, feminist leader and authorEstella Vasquez, labor organizer extraordinaire

More information and stories about the extraordinary honorees from 2011-2023 available at LaborArts.org

New York City Central Labor Council Annual Awards Reception
2024-05-14 18:00 - 20:00
NEW YORK CITY CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL, AFL-CIO ANNUAL AWARDS RECEPTION

Honoring:

Manny Pastreich, President32BJ SEIU

‍Jonathan Smith, PresidentNY Metro Area Postal Union, APWU

Worker’s Justice Project

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‍Tuesday, May 14th

6:00PM – 8:00PM

HOTEL EVENTI851 6th AVENUE, 3d FloorNEW YORK, NY 10001

For more information, call (212) 604-9552 or email events@nycclc.org

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Dance Project: Listen to Your Mother
2024-05-16 00:00 - 2024-05-19 23:59
La Mama Moves Festival Presents

“Listen to Your Mother” (World Premiere)

by Anabella Lenzu/DanceDrama

May 16th -19th, 2024 @ La Mama, NYC

Director & Choreographer: Anabella Lenzu

Technology Advisor/ Video Art Design & Sound Landscape: Todd Carroll

Text: Anabella Lenzu & Jerzy Grotowski.

Drawings: Anabella Lenzu

Performers: Anabella Lenzu & Fiamma Lenzu-Carroll

Additional Choreography: Isadora Duncan “Le Mere” (1921)

Music: Alexander Scriabin

Coach/ Reposition Isadora Duncan Repertory: @catherinegallant_dance

Assistant to the Choreographer: @agustinarastelli

What makes a good mother? What makes a good artist?

“Listen to Your Mother” is a choreographic research project dedicated to the lives of women-identifying artists who are immigrant mothers living in New York City.

“Listen to Your Mother” seeks to capture these underrepresented women’s stories to inspire dialogue, appreciation, and social support instead of the ongoing prejudice endured that is historically placed against mothers and women in the arts.

Using my ongoing movement research and embodied practice exploring spoken word, movement, and media, this work will expose and capture the body histories of mothers who are immigrant artists grappling with the cultural differences of living in New York City.

Tickets and more information at www.anabellalenzu.com

La Mama66 E 4th St, New York, NY 10003

Panel: NEW TRENDS IN ORGANIZING
2024-06-05 19:00 - 20:30
The New York Labor History Association PresentsA Free Online Program:

NEW TRENDS IN ORGANIZING

DATE: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 2024

TIME: 7:00PM-8:30PM (ET)

PLACE: ZOOM

REGISTER at: DebBergen514@gmail.com

Panelists:

Ellen Cassedy, Founder and Leader, 9 to 5 Movement

Prof. Eric Blanc, Rutgers University, Asst. Prof. of Labor Studies

Patrick Cate, National Organizing Coordinator, EWOC

More information at www.newyorklaborhistory.org

PNHP's Lifetime Achievement Award to Dr. Evie Rich
2024-06-13 18:00 - 20:30
NY Metro Chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program will present the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award to civil rights icon Dr. Evelyn Jones Rich on June 13, 2024

WHENJune 13, 2024 at 6:00pm – 8:30pmDoors open at 6pm, Program begins at 6:30pmWHEREJudson Church: 55 Washington Square South (3rd Floor Meeting Room) NYC – Map hereWheelchair accessible, ADA Entrance: 243 Thompson Street

More information and tickets here

Workshop: Affordable Housing and Immigration Advocacy
2024-06-17 11:00 - 13:00
Path Home Project presents a discussion about the old ILGWU’s philosophy of social unionism as applied to issues of affordable housing and immigration advocacy! How can labor history inform present struggles? Join us for a light lunch, short film screenings, and discussion on these important topics!

DATE: Monday, June 17, 2024TIME: 11amPLACE: CUNY SLU, 25 West 43 Street, NYC, Room 18A

More information and RSVP: tammy@pathhomeproject.org

Exhibit: Frances Perkins and the New Deal
2024-07-16 00:00 - 2024-12-31 23:59
Cornell University, ILR School216 Ives HallIthaca, NY 14853

Now through Dec. 31, 2024

Frances Perkins, who left her progressive mark on New York City, New York state, and the nation, is the subject of an exhibit at Cornell University’s ILR School, where she served on the faculty until she died at age 85 in 1965.

Open to the public through Dec. 31, the exhibit features artifacts such as photographs, ILR teaching syllabi, audio clips from Perkins’ ILR lectures, a signed copy of her biography of President Franklin Roosevelt and the political cartoon credited with coining the “New Deal” moniker.

More information at www.ilr.cornell.edu

NYS Workers’ Compensation Board: Worker Safety Webinar
2024-08-12 12:00 - 13:00
NYS Workers’ Compensation Boardpresents aWorker Safety WebinarMonday, August 12, 202412:00pm to 1:00pm

Register at www.wcb.ny.gov

Feminists Fight Fossil Fuels March
2024-08-25 14:00 - 16:00
Feminists Fight Fossil Fuels March

When: Sunday, August 25th at 2pm

Location: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Memorial, 23 Washington Pl, New York, 10003

The Action

In 1911, 146 garment workers — the majority immigrant women and girls — died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. They died because of callous corporate greed and business owners who did not recognize their right to safe and dignified lives.

Today, million of people die each year from fires, extreme heat, floods, famine and air pollution. The cause is the same: corporate greed and a callous disregard for life, this time by the fossil fuel industry and its Wall Street bankrollers.

Just as the women of 1911 took to the streets in the aftermath of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire, join us on Sunday, August 25th for a mass march and nonviolent civil disobedience. We will be loud. We will fight like hell for the living. And we will make it impossible for Wall Street to continue enabling Big Oil’s killing of our communities.

Whether you’re ready to take civil disobedience with us, or you only want to participate in the family-friendly march, there is a role for everyone at this protest. RSVP for more details and to get invited to trainings, legal briefings, and prep calls!

More information, links, and rsvp here

40th Annual Bread & Roses Heritage Festival
2024-09-02 11:30 - 18:00
40th Annual Bread & Roses Heritage Festival

Labor Day, September 2nd

Lawrence, MA!

Celebrating Lawrence’s rich history of labor rights, culture, and community with music, food, art, and more

More information at www.breadandrosesheritage.org

Exhibition: No Bodies- Clothing as Disruptor
2024-09-20 00:00 - 2025-01-26 23:59
Hudson River Museum511 Warburton AvenueYonkers, NY 10701

Experience the altered and uninhabited clothing in No Bodies, which challenges our perceptions of materiality, cultural identity, relationships, political beliefs, and portraiture itself. On view through January 26, 2025.

More information at www.hrm.org

Bernhardt Labor Journalism Forum and Awards Ceremony
2024-10-17 18:00 - 19:30
Bernhardt Labor Journalism Forum and Awards Ceremony

Thursday, October 17th, 6-7:30pm

Bobst Library | 2nd Floor | North Reading Room70 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012

Event will also be live-streamed

RSVP required

More Information and Registration Here

Join the New York Labor History Association and the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University Libraries, in collaboration with LaborArts, for the 10th Annual Bernhardt Awards with a Forum focused labor and the 2024 election.

AWARD – The 2024 Bernhardt Labor Journalism prize will be awarded to Kim Kelly for the article, “Lawsuit: Alabama is Denying Prisoners Parole to Lease Their Labor to Meatpackers, McDonalds” (In These Times, April 19, 2024).

FORUM – “ELECTION 2024: What’s at Stake for Labor?” with Alethia Jones (movement educator and labor studies faculty), Lucia Gomez (NYC CLC Political Director) and Eric Blanc (organizer and labor studies professor).

The prize and the forum honor the late Debra E. Bernhardt, who worked in so many different realms to share the hidden histories of working people. As head of the Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, she reached out to an astonishing number of people and organizations to document undocumented stories and unrecognized contributions, and to make links between past and present. The LaborArts project is dedicated to Bernhardt, and the online exhibit Making History Personal, explores her work. Debra Bernhardt and Rachel Bernstein’s Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives – A Pictorial History of Working People in New York City, features many of the materials Bernhardt brought to the Wagner Labor Archives.

Paved with Gold and Ashes: A Reading
2024-10-17 19:30 - 21:00
A rehearsed reading of the play Paved with Gold and Ashes

The Ellington Room400 W 43rd StNew York, NY 10036

Thursday 17th OctoberDoors open at 7:00pm / Start time 7:30pm

Tickets: Free entry – Limited spacePlease register you attendance here: http://www.tinyurl.com/PWGAAreading

About the Play:

‘Paved with Gold and Ashes’ is is an all-female stage play about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. It was originally produced in London before a critically acclaimed run at the Edinburgh Fringe 2023, then followed by an Off-West End run at the Barons Court Theatre earlier this year. It is now a published play.

Workers Unite! Film Festival
2024-10-18 00:00 - 2024-10-30 23:59
Season 13 at Cinema Village!In-Person Oct 18-24 with Special Events thru Nov 12Virtual 10/25-10/30 for Select Films

Festival program and tickets at www.workersunitefilmfestival.org

'Camicette Bianche': An Italian Musical About the Triangle Fire
2024-11-10 18:00 - 20:00
Camicette Bianche

~ Homage to the Italians of the World ~

An Italian Musical about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

Based on the book Camicette Bianche by Ester Rizzo

Sunday, November 10, 6 pm

268 Mulberry StreetNear St. Patrick’s Old CathedralNYC

Free Admission

Klezmer and Beyond: Yale Strom and Hot Pstromi In Concert
2024-11-23 19:30 - 21:00
As the Micki Levin Concert Series continues, join Yale Strom (creator of the Triangle Fire Cantata) and his extraordinary ensemble, Hot Pstromi, together with special guest artists Fred Benedetti and Sara Caswell. Enjoy an evening of music that begins with klezmer and spans influences from the Middle East, Central, and Eastern Europe.

B’nai Jeshurun257 West 88th StreetNew York, NY 10024(Between Broadwayand West End Avenue)

Saturday, November 23 @ 7:30 PM–9:00 PM

In person or via livestream

Yale Strom is one of the world’s leading ethnographer-artists of klezmer and Roma music and history. Since Hot Pstromi’s inception in 1981, Strom has composed original New Jewish music that combines klezmer with Hasidic melodies, as well as Roma, jazz, classical, Balkan, Arabic, and Sephardic motifs. Strom’s compositions range from folk to orchestral, and works have been performed by the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, San Diego Chamber Orchestra, Hausmann Quartet, Burdick-Thorne String Quartet, Rachel Barton Pine, Mike Block, Bordeaux Philharmonic, the Ostrava Philharmonic of the Czech Republic, and others. In addition, he has composed original music for theater, film, and television.

The musicians of Hot Pstromi are virtuosos in their own right, each having achieved international recognition for their work.

Fred Benedetti began studies of classical guitar at 16 and by 26 was one of 12 guitarists worldwide to perform in one of the last masterclasses of Maestro Andres Segovia. He has performed in the United States, England, Germany, the Czech Republic, Canada, Taiwan, and Mexico as well as with the San Diego Symphony, the San Diego Opera, the Starlight Opera, the American Ballet Company, the Old Globe Theatre, Luciano Pavarotti, and jazz artist Dave Brubeck. Fred is an emeritus professor of music at Grossmont College, where he was the head of the guitar studies program, and is part of the guitar program at San Diego State University. He has received numerous accolades for his teaching and has performed for dignitaries such as the king and queen of Malaysia, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Ravi Shankar.

Grammy Nominee Sara Caswell is a leading jazz violinist known for her technical mastery and lyrical artistry, recognized as a “Rising Star” in DownBeat Magazine since 2013. She has released three acclaimed CDs, including Alive in the Singing Air with her sister Rachel, and leads the Sara Caswell Quartet while co-leading the Caswell Sisters Quintet. Caswell has toured with artists such as Esperanza Spalding, David Krakauer, and Darol Anger, and is a member of the New York Pops Orchestra, performing at Carnegie Hall. A faculty member at Berklee College of Music and Manhattan School of Music, she also conducts jazz improvisation masterclasses, having studied under renowned mentors Josef Gingold and David Baker. Raised in a musical family, Caswell began violin at age five and holds degrees from Indiana University and Manhattan School of Music.

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Art as Memorial: Artist and Activist Talks
2025-01-05 13:00 - 15:30
Hudson River Museum511 Warburton AvenueYonkers, NY 10701

January 5, 2025 at 1:00 pm

This three-part program invites participants to explore memorialization through the lens of two significant global crises: the mistreatment of garment workers and the marginalization of the LGBTQ+ community during the AIDS crisis. The afternoon includes talks and a hands-on collage workshop.

The program begins with artist Rachel Breen discussing her installation Shroud, on view in No Bodies: Clothing as Disruptor, and HRM’s Laura Vookles, Chair of the Curatorial Department, drawing connections to Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s Untitled (L.A.), on view in It Takes 2: Unexpected Pairings. Both works reflect on lives lost due to injustice and intolerance using unconventional materials.

Next, labor activists Adrienne Andi Sosin and Joel Sosinsky of Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition and Robin Berson of the Workers’ Memorial Quilts discuss their inspiration and how they have worked to memorialize garment workers lost in tragedies like the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire and the Rana Plaza collapse.

The program is followed by a hands-on collage workshop where participants can create memorial pieces inspired by the quilts, honoring those they wish to remember.

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Art as Memorial: Collage Workshop
2025-01-05 15:30 - 17:00
Hudson River Museum511 Warburton AvenueYonkers, NY 10701

January 5, 2025 at 3:30 pm

Robin Berson’s Workers’ Memorial Quilts, which inspired this hands-on workshop, honor victims of garment industry disasters that bookended the past century: the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911 and the Tazreen fire and Rana Plaza collapse of 2012 and 2013 in Bangladesh, emphasize the human toll, particularly of marginalized communities, while questioning the progress made in labor rights amid global outsourcing. The quilts will be on display for this program.

Participants of all ages are invited to bring images of people they would like to memorialize. Historical images will also be supplied as encouragement to take on a character and their story and create an abstract representation of the individual using felt and markers, mounted on a foam core square, and also capture memories in writing.

Robin Berson is a board member of the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition.

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