Each year since 1987, the New York Labor History Association has awarded the John Commerford Labor Education Award to two honorees for their contributions to workers’ empowerment. The 2022 Awards will be held virtually on Thursday December 1, 2022, from 6-7 pm Eastern time, honoring the extraordinary activist scholars Dorothy Sue Cobble and Melvyn Dubofsky.Registration is required. The event is free,… Read More »NY Labor History Association’s Annual Labor Education Awards

Friday, December 16th6:00 – 9:00 pmCity Lore56 East First StreetNYC Rise Up! The Art of Activism on the Lower East Side is an oral history-based place-marking project honoring sites of cultural and arts activism. Join us in celebrating neighbors, past and present, and raising a glass to the Lower East Side! See photos from the… Read More »OPENING: Rise Up! The Art of Activism in the Lower East Side

Stroll through the neighborhood’s 100-year-old history! One hundred years ago, there were as many as 500 synagogues dotting the streets of the Lower East Side. Only a few, like the Museum’s landmark building and the Bialystocker Synagogue, still exist in their original form; most are distant memories or have been altered beyond recognition. Some even… Read More »Synagogues of the Lower East Side Walking Tour

Cocktail reception in support of St. Pat's for All, featuring live music and Irish step dancing, at the New York Irish Center Tickets and more information at www.eventbrite.com

Join the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition as we march in the St. Pat's for All Parade. Sunnyside/Woodside, Queens, NY. Parade Route Starts at 43rd and Skillman Ave. RSVP at info@rememberthetrianglefire.org

Writer and performance artist Annie Lanzillotto presents her latest publication, in which she invites readers to join her on a poetic journey to learn what it is to feel “like an errant puzzle piece … never to be found, never to be put into place.” In this written adventure Lanzillotto connects with the gay community… Read More »Book Talk: Annie Rachele Lanzillotto reads from Whaddyacall the Wind? (Bordighera Press, 2022) at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute

New Jersey City UniversityCenter for the Arts Presents The Two Roses: Rose Schneiderman and The Triangle Fire A Reading by and Conversation with Annie Schneiderman Valliere Hosted by Edvige Giunta and Jennifer Marchan Thursday, March 16, 2023, at 11:30 am For more information and Zoom link visit www.njcu.edu Annie Schneiderman Valliere, born in Washington, D.C.,… Read More »The Two Roses: Rose Schneiderman and
The Triangle Fire

ASHCAN ART AND THE TRIANGLE FIRE OF 1911 An original virtual lecture by Debbie Wells. It's the personal story of an immigrant who lost her life at the 1911 Triangle Fire combined with the art of that era. March 23, 11am-12pm (Can't make the date? Replays are sent automatically so you can enjoy the video… Read More »Virtual Lecture: Art, the NYC Immigrant Experience, and the Triangle Fire

Nassau Reading Council 2023 Workshops Teaching Literacy with theTriangle Fire Memorial A Curriculum and Practice Discussion March 23, 2023, 4-5pm We will share goals, content, classroom practice,and a selection of resources at multiple levels. Andi Sosin, Nassau Reading CouncilKimberly Schiller, Huntington School District Free and Convenient Online After School Workshop CTLE credits available Zoom Link… Read More »Teaching Literacy with the
Triangle Fire Memorial

Presented by People’s Heritage Tours Dr. Daniel Katz -- ILGWU historian -- leads a walking tour beginning at Cooper Union at Astor Place, proceeding to the NYU Brown building on Washington Place, the site of the Triangle fire, and up to Union Square, where the social justice legacy of the fire continued for a century.… Read More »Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Walking Tour

Workers Unite Film Festival Presents Free Virtual On-Demand Screenings March 24th-31st in Honor of Women’s History Month Films Anchor Point - Women have been a force in wildland firefighting since 1942. Still, they remain outnumbered 10-to-1 on the fire lines and do double-duty battling both the infernos that scorch public lands and the smoldering embers of… Read More »Free Virtual Film Screenings in Honor of Women’s History Month

The Directors and Officers of the TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FACTORY FIRE MEMORIAL Cordially invite you to attend their Eighteenth Annual Award Reception and Scholarship Fundraiser. March 30, 20236pm - 8pm RWDSU Union Hall370 Seventh Ave, 5th FloorNew York, NY 10001(steps away from Penn Station) Honorees JANELLA T. HINDSSecretary-Treasurer, NYC Central Labor Council CHARLENE OBERNAUERExecutive Director, NYCOSH… Read More »Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Annual Award Reception and Scholarship Fundraiser