Bread & Roses Heritage Committee

BREAD & ROSES HERITAGE COMMITTIEE 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 25 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.
 
Here are some ways for individuals and organizations to get involved:

  • Joining the festival planning committee
  • Helping distribute publicity materials
  • Volunteering on the day of the festival
  • Operating a food vendor booth, which can be a fund-raiser for you
  • Having an informational table to promote your organization
  • Sponsoring an act or a stage
  • Contributing financially, or helping with fund-raising
  • Whatever you'd like to do to help!

The 2011 Bread & Roses Heritage Committee
Linda Siegenthaler, Co-Chair
Hartley Pleshaw, Co-Chair
Phyllis Tyler, Treasurer
Milagro Grullon, Secretary
 
Boardmembers:

Niurka Aybar
Jim Beauchesne
Pamela Yameen
 
Committee members:
Pati Fernandez
Quin Gonell
Laura Jimenez
Dashira Mangual
Glennys Sanchez
Jurg Siegenthaler

 
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. 5th!