Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition

Art as Memorial: Artist and Activist Talks
2025-01-05 13:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York)
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.

More information here.

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.

More information here.

Project 146: A Choreographic Work Exploring the Triangle Fire
2025-03-07 00:00 - 2025-03-08 23:59
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 excerpt from Project 146 will be performed at the Official Commemoration of the 114th Anniversary of the Triangle Factory Fire, March 25, 2025, in NYC

Storytelling and Performance: An Evening at Ernie O'Malleys Pub
2025-03-13 19:30 - 22:00
“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 operator Joe Zito, the heroic elevator operator who saved scores of lives at the Triangle Factory fire of 1911 .

LuLu LoLo, reading an excerpt from: “38 Witnessed Her Death, I Witnessed Her Love: The Lonely Secret of Mary Ann Zielonko (Kitty Genovese Story)” on the anniversary of Kitty Genovese’s death in 1964.

Plus John McDonagh and Brendan Fay J and special guests

Thursday March 13, 2025 at 7:30pm (get there by 7pm to grab a seat)

In the back room ofErnie O’Malley’s Pub140 East 27th Street (3rd & Lex)NY, NY 10016

Free

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: Presentation and Pop-Up Exhibit
2025-03-18 17:30 - 19:00
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 the Greenwich Village of the early 1900s, with its tenements populated by thousands of immigrant families, and the immigrant laborers, many of whom worked in area sweatshops.

The talk will be accompanied by a pop-up exhibit featuring replica shirtwaists, historic news clippings and photos.

DANIEL LEVINSON WILK is Professor of American History at SUNY-Fashion Institute of Technology and a member of the board of the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition. He writes about the history of waiters, elevators, and the modern service sector, and is currently working on a book called How To Tip With Style.

The event takes place at the Jefferson Market Library, 425 6th Ave.

For more information and to register for the event: www.villagepreservation.org

Join Global Labor Justice's Nike Supply Chain Campaign
2025-03-21 00:00 - 23:59
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 can share this with others who may be interested and ask them to sign up in support of these women workers, that’d be great!

Nike and other big fashion brands have built a business model that depends on young women workers remaining invisible – but now over 1,000 workers are coming forward publicly for the first time with a message to Nike!

These workers know the risk of standing up to powerful companies and authoritarian systems, yet they are coming out of the shadows like never before to demand that Nike transform its supply chain to protect workers’ human rights and pay living wages.

Please sign the pledge to share a message to Nike with 1,000 photos of garment workers in March 2025. And ask members of your organization to take the pledge too! Together, we will make sure more than 1,000 people across the US share the image, tagging key people in and around Nike.

Together we can bring garment workers’ voices and faces to Nike’s doorstep.

Triangle Fire Yahrzeit Kaddish and Kiddush
2025-03-22 09:30 - 13:00
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 or take a trolley to that industrial sweatshop building located off of Washington Square. Almost all were female, under the age of 21 which meant that young teens were also “employed” at that sweatshop. They were Jewish and Italian, typically “greenhorns,” meaning newcomers who had little choice in employment. Most of those who died did so because the factory fire doors on the 9th floor were locked.

Services will be held earlier upstairs for those who want to attend, and will include prayers for those who died on March 25, 1911.

Even as we remember erstwhile immigrants, we also think of immigrants today. Remembrance, which is needed for its own sake, can openly embrace grappling with that contemporary precarious landscape.

Ruth Sergel: Film Screenings and Talk
2025-03-22 14:00 - 16:00
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 • 2:00-4:00pm

Penn South • Room 8A343 8th AvenueNYC

Free!

Register here

Free Virtual Screening of 'LILLY' In Honor of Women's History Month
2025-03-24 00:00 - 2025-03-28 23:59
Timed to honor March 25th’s Equal Pay Day, Workers Unite Film Festival presents a pre-theatrical release of LILLY: a powerful dramatic film based on the remarkable true story of working-class hero, Lilly Ledbetter, a hard-working Alabama tire factory supervisor whose singular goal is to lift her family into the middle class. Having grown up in poverty, she endures a work environment plagued by pervasive harassment for the sake of the best paycheck in the county. As retirement approaches, Lilly discovers that the system had been cheating her, paying her close to half of what the men with the same jobs were earning. Outraged, Lilly fights this injustice to the Supreme Court, the corridors of Congress and eventually The White House all while powerful forces try to shut her down. LILLY follows the transformation of an ordinary citizen into the face of an issue, illuminating the impact a single, courageous person can have.

On Demand Through March 28th (Fri 10pm ET)

Watch film here.

Chalk for the Triangle Workers
2025-03-25 00:00 - 23:59
Each year since 2004, on the anniversary of the infamous blaze, volunteers fan out across the city to inscribe in chalk the names and ages of the Triangle dead in front of their former homes.

If you’re interested in participating this year, sign up here, and read the following note from Chalk and Coalition founder Ruth Sergel:

Dear Beloved Community – In 1911 the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire took the lives of 146 young workers, most of them immigrant women and girls. Please join CHALK in standing for the Triangle workers by inscribing their names and ages in front of their former homes, making their lives visible across our city. Starting this year CHALK will be run by the venerable Tenement Museum. I’m thrilled an institution so fiercely committed to the layered history of our city will lead Chalk into the future. If you want to feel hopeful about the world, give them a visit down on Orchard Street.Sign up for CHALK 2025 here: bit.ly/Chalk2025Kat Lloyd is leading the CHALK team at Tenement. This is their first year, so if you hit a glitch or have an idea – – she wants to hear from you! Contact Kat: chalk@tenement.orgIf you’ve chalked before, you’re already skilled at claiming public space to demand justice – that’s a great tool to have! I’ve listed some events and resources below that might be of interest. Remember: the false powers wouldn’t be acting so crazy if they weren’t already losing. These regimes come on strong, but they are brittle and they always fall. Always. Our diverse, equitable and inclusive future is coming. Thank you for refusing to accept injustice one hundred years ago or today and for building our strong and resilient community.See you in the streets!– Ruth

Official Commemoration of the 114th Anniversary of the Triangle Factory Fire
2025-03-25 11:30 - 13:00
Workers United/SEIU (ILGWU) Presents

The Official Commemoration of the 114th Anniversary of the Triangle Factory Fire

In-Person and Live Streamed

March 25, 202511:30 am – 1 pm

Washington Place and Greene Street • NYC

All Invited • Rain or Shine

Special guest speakers and ceremonial ladder raising by FDNY We’ll also be laying 146 flowers honoring the workers who died that day

Can’t make it in person? Watch the live stream here.

The Triangle Fire: Response, Reform and Reverberations
2025-03-25 18:30 - 20:00
When: Tuesday, March 25, 2025, 6:30PM – 8:00PM ET

Event Location: In-Person at WNYC’s Greene Space 44 Charlton St, New York, NY 10014and also Virtual on YouTube Live

Cost: Free; Suggested Donation

On March 25, 1911 a fire erupted at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, killing 146 workers. In its wake, reformers, union activists and politicians banded together to form the Factory Investigating Committee which succeeded in recommending dozens of laws to improve working conditions and protect labor.

On this anniversary, Shaina Taub, the creator of Suffs, brings to life the voices of Clara Lemlich, Rose Schneiderman and Frances Perkins, women who organized for reform. WNYC’s Amina Srna moderates a conversation with historians Annelise Orleck, Annie Polland, and Margaret Chin, author of Sewing Women. Join us on March 25th — in person at WNYC’s Greene Space or online on YouTube Live — as we memorialize the victims and explore the labor movement and cross-class alliances, including the 1982 Chinatown Strike, that led to monumental change.

More info and registration here.

Now Circa Then, a Play Set in the Lower East Side
2025-04-24 00:00 - 2025-05-11 23:59
Now Circa Then, a comedy by Carly Mensch, is set in “a beloved tenement museum” on the Lower East Side – modern day. Two young historical re-enactors’ romance goes off the rails in this time-traveling, delightful comedy, which includes an exploration of the Triangle Fire. Featuring Anna Lei Negrin and Daniel Yaiullo and directed by Luke Hofmaier.

Morningside Theater Company100 La Salle St (just east of Broadway) NY, NY 10027

April 24 – May 11, 2025

Tickets and more info at www.morningsideplayers.org.

Hillman Prizes for Journalism Awards Presentation & Reception
2025-05-13 18:00 - 20:00
75th annualHillman Prizesfor JournalismAwards Presentatation & Reception

Tuesday, May 13, 2025

The Times Center242 W. 41st St.New York City

More information and RSVP at www.hillmanfoundation.org

IAWA Presents Storytellers LuLu LoLo Pascale & Angela Derecas Taylor & Open Mic
2025-06-12 18:00 - 20:00
Every 2nd Thursday, IAWA –NY Goes LIVE and all are welcome to attend!Join IAWA (Italian American Writers Association) @ John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, 25 W. 43rd St., 17th Floor, NYC.

Thursday June 12, IAWA Presents LuLu LoLo & Angela Derecas

For more information: https://iawa.net/

March With the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition in the NYC Labor Day Parade
2025-09-06 00:00 - 23:59
Join the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition as we march up Fifth Avenue in the 2025 NYC Labor Day Parade.

We’ll be marching with our friends at UCE-FIT

Saturday, September 6th

Friends, family, co-workers, all are welcome to join!Look for the shirtwaists on 44th Street between 6th Ave and Broadway. We’ll gather at 10am, step-off at 10:30am.

RSVP and more information: info@rememberthetrianglefire.org

Washington Place: North Carolina Drama Honors the Spirit of the Triangle Fire Workers
2025-10-03 00:00 - 2025-10-12 23:59
Hart Theatre250 Pigeon Street Waynesville, NC

“Washington Place” is a stirring slice-of-life drama that honors the indomitable spirit of immigrant women forging new paths in America. The women of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City all come from different walks of life and backgrounds but are able to come together to share their daily struggles, dreams, and the camaraderie of being working women in a new era. But as they fight for better working conditions and fair treatment, a tragic fire breaks out, leading to devastating consequences. Penned by acclaimed local playwright David Brendan Hopes, “Washington Place” celebrates resilience, solidarity, and the enduring legacy of those who paved the way for a better tomorrow.

More information at www.harttheatre.org

South of 14th Street: A Play About the Triangle Fire
2025-10-16 00:00 - 2025-10-19 23:59
Seekonk High School in Seekonk, Massachusetts, presents the premiere of “South of 14th Street,” an original student-written and directed play by junior Juliana Centracchio, highlighting the tragic events of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911.

WHEN: Oct. 16 and 18 at 7 p.m.; and Oct. 19 at 2 p.m.WHERE: Seekonk High School in Seekonk, Massachusetts

The play sheds light on the devastating working conditions that led to one of the most infamous industrial disasters in American history, while honoring the lives lost and the labor reforms that followed.

Centracchio, a dedicated member of the SHS Theatre Company since her freshman year, has already made a name for herself as a talented actor. Now, in her directorial debut, she leads the company with her own original script, demonstrating both her creative vision and leadership.

“This play is a powerful reminder of the importance of workers’ rights and how far we’ve come,” said Centracchio. “I wanted to bring this story to life on stage not just as a piece of history, but as a lesson that still resonates today.”

More information at www.seekonkschoolnews.com

Workers Unite! Film Festival
2025-10-17 00:00 - 2025-10-23 23:59
Season 14 Kicks Off Oct 17-23 at NYC’s Cinema Village Theater with More Events Through Nov 1st

The Workers Unite Film Festival, now in its 14th season, is a celebration of Global Labor Solidarity. The Festival aims to showcase student and professional films from the United States and around the world which publicize and highlight the struggles, successes and daily lives of all workers in their efforts to unite and organize for better living conditions and social justice.

WUFF brings together activists, academics, and filmmakers of all ages and backgrounds for a celebration of social justice and the arts. Through dozens of documentary screenings, community forums, and interactive events across New York City, the festival provides working people with a platform to tell their stories while leading a movement for meaningful change. In recent years, we’ve incorporated theater production, live music, and poetry/spoken word nights.

More information at www.workersunitefilmfestival.org

2025 John Commerford Labor Education Awards Reception
2025-12-03 18:00 - 20:00
The New York Labor History Association

cordially invites you to attend

The Thirty-Ninth Annual

John Commerford Labor Education

Awards Reception

Honoring Mary Anne Trasciatti, activist, scholar and former President of the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition, and Jennifer Abruzzo, legal pioneer and NLRB General Counsel for their extraordinary contributions to workers’ empowerment. NYLHA’s only fundraiser of the year supports a wealth of terrific – and free – programming about labor and workers throughout the year.

Wednesday December 3 6-8pm

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

Live streaming available.

The event is free. Donations are graciously accepted.

More information and registration at www.newyorklaborhistory.org

Solidarity Vigil for Sri Lankan Garment Worker
2025-12-17 17:30 - 18:30
Our friends at the Coalition for Labor Union Women (CLUW) and Global Labor Justice have organized a solidarity vigil on Wednesday, December 17, at 5:30pm at the Triangle Fire Memorial (23 Washington Place, NYU Brown Building), for a Sri Lankan garment worker, Paramsivan Pushpalatha, who died after seeking medical attention at a Brandix factory in Sri Lanka (supplier to Victoria’s Secret).

Since Pushpalatha’s death, her family, co-workers and union leaders have faced retaliation and intimidation from Brandix. They have asked supporters to join them. Spread the word to your friends and supporters of garment workers!

JOIN us on December 17 (note the date was changed from 12/18 to 12/17) at 23 Washington Place at 5:30 pm, to honor this worker’s memory and call on Brandix to stop the cover-up of her tragic death.

For more information, reach out to: jeevamuhil@globallaborjustice.org

2026 MLK Day Celebration at the New York Society for Ethical Culture
2026-01-19 10:00 - 18:00
In the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision of justice, dignity, and beloved community, join the New York Society for Ethical Culture for a multigenerational afternoon of celebration, reflection, and action rooted in the arts. This MLK Day program brings together music, storytelling, dance, and participatory workshops that invite all ages to listen deeply, move together, and imagine more just futures. And while you’re there, be sure to stop by the Labor Arts table, 1-5 pm.

Monday, January 1910am to 6pmThe New York Society for Ethical Culture. 2 W 64th St., New York, NY

More information at www.ethical.nyc

Layer the Walls - An Immigrant Story Featuring Puppetry, Masks and Live Action
2026-02-22 00:00 - 2026-03-22 23:59
In one Lower East Side tenement, forty layers of wallpaper were found clinging to the walls – each piece applied by a new immigrant family. Using puppetry, masks and live action, Layer the Walls tells the incredible stories held within each layer. Through these stories, young audiences engage their imagination and creativity, build empathy, and better understand current events through a historical lens.

TWO DIFFERENT SHOWS:

This year, we are offering TWO different Layer the Walls experiences. Both are centered in the same tenement apartment. Layer the Walls Part I and Part II illuminate stories from different time periods. Both pieces stand alone. Bring your students to see the stories most relevant to your classroom. Look below to find out more about the content.

Layer the Walls Part I: Sunday February 22nd, 3pm @ Abrons Arts Center (Manhattan)Layer the Walls Part II: Saturday, February 28th, 4:30pm @ Abrons Arts Center (Manhattan)*Snow Make-Up* Layer the Walls Part I: Sunday, March 1st, 3pm @ Abrons Arts Center (Manhattan)Layer the Walls Part II: Sunday, March 15th, 2pm @ Hostos Community College (Bronx)Layer the Walls Part I: Sunday, March 22nd, 4pm @ Staller Center for the Arts (Long Island)

More information and tickets at www.grandpistachio.com/layerthewalls

St. Pat's for All Parade
2026-03-01 12:00 - 17:00
St. Pat’s for All celebrates the diversity of the Irish and Irish American communities of New York.

The march has been running for more than twenty years, and continues to be the most inclusive and progressive celebration of Irish culture and solidarity in the USA. St. Pat’s for All’s motto, “cherishing all the children of the nation equally,” is taken from the 1916 Easter Proclamation of the Irish Republic; it is a vision drawn from our past and a guide for our present and future.

More information at www.stpatsforall.org/

A guided visit to the Triangle Fire Memorial
2026-03-04 17:30 - 18:00
March 4 @ 5:30 PM
Washington Pl. at the corner with Greene St.NYC
More information at www.casaitaliananyu.org

A celebration of the publication of the Italian translation of Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
2026-03-04 18:30 - 20:00
A celebration of the publication of the Italian translation of Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, edited by Edvige Giunta and Mary Anne Trasciatti (New Village Press, 2022), winner of the 2023 Susan Koppelman Award for Best Anthology in Feminist Studies and American Popular Culture.

March 4 @ 6:30 pm

at NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò24 West 12th Street, NY 10011-8604

More information and to register for this event: www.casaitaliananyu.org

Free Zoom Class: The Historical Significance of the Triangle Fire
2026-03-12 18:00 - 20:00
This online educational session will be conducted by Dr. Adrienne (Andi) Sosin, a founding member of the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition. It will honor the historical significance of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire and deepen our understanding of its impact on labor rights, workplace safety, and organizing efforts.

All are invited.

Register using the QR code on the attached flyer, or by emailing CLUWlongisland@gmail.com

Sponsored by the Long Island Chapter of the Coalition of Labor Union Women

Lecture: The Triangle Fire
2026-03-18 11:15 - 13:00
What Was the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and Why Was it Significant?

A lecture by Abbott Gorin

Wednesday, March 18, 2026 at 11:15 am

Jewish Community Center of Central New Jersey1391 Martine AvenueScotch Plains, NJ 07076

For more information email arivlin@jccnj.org

Chalk for the Triangle Workers!
2026-03-25 00:00 - 23:59
Each year on the anniversary of the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, volunteers fan out across the city to inscribe the names and ages of the Triangle dead in front of their former homes. This year, the Tenement Museum and the indefatigable Kat Lloyd are organizing Chalk 2026 with a focus on immigration.

To participate in Chalk 2026 visit here.

If you have questions, ideas or concerns – Kat wants to hear from you. You can contact her directly: KLloyd@tenement.org

More information at www.tenement.org/chalk/

Triangle Fire Memorial Association Ceremony and Awards Reception
2026-03-25 09:00 - 11:00
Christ The King High School Hugh Kirwan Auditorium68-02 Metropolitan AvenueMiddle Village, Queens, NYC

The Triangle Fire Memorial Association, Inc. will hold its Triangle Fire Anniversary Memorial Ceremony at the Christ The King High School at 68-02 Metropolitan Avenue, Middle Village, Queens, NYC.

All are invited to this annual event and reception.

This Association is an enlargement of the informal Triangle Survivors Group originally formed in 1955, with a goal to assist in perpetuating the memory of all those lost in the tragic March 25, 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.

More info here.
