Bread & Roses Heritage Committee

BREAD & ROSES HERITAGE COMMITTEE MISSION STATEMENT

To organize the annual Bread & Roses Labor Day Festival that celebrates Lawrence's history and diverse cultures through music, theatre and dance.

To recognize, commemorate, inform, and share the labor history and social justice legacy of Lawrence's 1912 Bread & Roses strike with Lawrence's present day residents and people worldwide.

THE BREAD & ROSES FESTIVAL SINCE 1985

For over 28 consecutive years, the Bread & Roses Heritage Committee has celebrated Lawrence's ethnic diversity and labor history by organizing an annual Festival on Labor Day in order to honor the most significant event in Lawrence history: the 1912 Bread and Roses Strike. We memorialize the event with a variety of music and dance, poetry and drama, ethnic food, historical demonstrations, and walking and trolley tours, all on or starting from Lawrence's Common. We also host organizations continuing the struggle for social justice today. Bread and Roses is the only broadly multicultural festival in Lawrence, the Immigrant City. And it is the only Festival in the region which celebrates the true spirit of Labor Day, in the most appropriate location, the site of the Bread and Roses Strike. The Festival is organized by the Bread and Roses Heritage Committee, Inc., a non-profit, all-volunteer organization. We welcome involvement by anyone interested in celebrating Lawrence's special heritage.

For more information contact:

The Bread and Roses Heritage Committee, Inc.

Phone: 978-794-1655

Email: info@breadandrosesheritage.org

We'd love to hear from you! And we look forward to seeing you at the festival, on Labor Day Sept. 2nd, 2013.