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… Read More »Paved with Gold and Ashes: A Reading
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 ~ 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
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… Read More »Klezmer and Beyond: Yale Strom and Hot Pstromi In Concert
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… Read More »Art as Memorial: Artist and Activist Talks
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,… Read More »Art as Memorial: Collage Workshop
Project 146 A choreographic work by Professor Denise J. Murphy exploring the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Performed by students at the University of Delaware, featuring original music by internationally acclaimed 6-Wire trio and Seth Norman March 7 & 8, 2025 at 7:30pm University of DelawareMitchell HalllNewark, Delaware More information and tickets here SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTAn… Read More »Project 146: A Choreographic Work Exploring the Triangle Fire
"Say It Ain't So," the storytelling salon series hosted by John McDonagh (WBAI) and Al Gonzales (retired NYPD, 40th Precinct, South Bronx) Presents Annie Lanzillotto, performing "Girls Girls Where Did You Work Last Night?!" and more from her Triangle Fire stories and recent pilgrimage to the birthplace in the mountains outside Salerno of heroic elevator… Read More »Storytelling and Performance: An Evening at Ernie O’Malleys Pub
Join the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition and Village Preservation for a talk by historian Daniel Levinson Wilk on the historic 1911 fire and its impact on the community and eventually the country and beyond. In "The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: A Local Tragedy Felt 'Round the World," Professor Levinson Wilk takes us back to… Read More »The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: Presentation and Pop-Up Exhibit
Women workers across six countries in Asia have joined together to demand living wages and human rights in a photo petition that just topped 1,000 workers. We are asking allies and friends to strengthen their bonds of cross-border solidarity and pledge to participate in a social media action in March to ensure that Nike sees the workers' faces. Please, sign up, and if you… Read More »Join Global Labor Justice’s Nike Supply Chain Campaign
The Lower East Side remembers its own. Stanton Street often hosts a Triangle Fire Kiddush to remember those who perished in 1911 in a blaze that took the lives of 146 young immigrant sweatshop workers in 18 minutes. They primarily lived in direct proximity to the Stanton Street Shul since they were poor and needed to walk to work at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory… Read More »Triangle Fire Yahrzeit Kaddish and Kiddush
Penn South, the affordable housing coop built by the ILGWU, is a living tribute to the power of workers.Ruth Sergel, Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition founder, will be screening her short film “Belle” and an excerpt from “The Cooperators” (her documentary about Penn South), and giving a talk on working with communities: March 22 •… Read More »Ruth Sergel: Film Screenings and Talk