Archive for June 2014
Monday, July 7th – 7:00 pm
Laborfest POETS!
Nellie Wong and Alice Rogoff
Nellie Wong’s four collections of poetry speak directly to labor issues. Her latest is “Breakfast Lunch Dinner” rooted in her formative experience working in her family’s restaurant in Oakland’s Chinatown. Alice E. Rogoff has published two collections of poetry. She will read from a new project, “The Labor Union Women on our Stairways” about women…
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Sunday, July 6th, 4:30-6:30 pm
A Trad Jazz Celebration
The Buena Vista Jazz Band
Each year for five years running, we’ve welcomed the Buena Vista Jazz Band to the Bird & Beckett stage on the Independence Day weekend (and the last Sunday before Christmas too!) — and so it goes! Singer Darlene Langston will front the seven-piece band, which features Noel Weidkamp (trumpet), Max Perkoff (trombone), Don Neely (clarinet and vocal), Duncan James…
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Sunday, July 6th – 2 pm
Laborfest remembers Ludlow!
author Zeese Papanikolas
Buried Unsung — Louis Tikas and the Ludlow Massacre, Zeese Papanikolas’s meditation on the event 100 years ago, in 1914, that set off the Colorado Coalfields War.  The book takes as its focus this Greek immigrant miner who lost his life and whose memory would be lost to us but for the efforts of historian Papanikolas.…
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