2012 Bread & Roses Festival Program Schedule
Opening / Monument Dedication/Closing
| 11:45-12:15 | |
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| 12:30-2:00 | 1912 Strikers' Monument Dedication, a 30,000 lbs stone with two artistically rendered bronze plaques,46' X 23", depicting the the textile strike of 1912, Lawrence, Mass |
| 4:00-5:00 | Bread & Puppet Theater Company presents: Possibilitarian Circus |
Bernstein / Main Stage
| 12:15-1:15 | Branco-Stamas Big Band |
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| Break for 1912 Strikers' Monument Dedication | |
| 1:55-2:00 | Wool & Grant and The Lawrence High School Girls Ensemble |
| 2:00-2:45 | Grupo Effectivo |
| 3:00-3:45 | Si Kahn |
| 4:00-5:00 | Stage will break for Bread & Puppet Theater |
| 5:00-5:45 | A Besere Velt of Boston Workmen's Circle performing, "As We Come Marching..." their new Bread & Roses Strike Show! |
| 5:45-6:10 | Bread and Roses Hall of Fame Award |
| 5:45-6:10 | Hall of Fame Award |
| 6:10-7:00 | Ryan Montbleau Band |
Carmela Teoli
| 12:00-12:45 | Sweet Willie D |
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| 1:00-2:50 | Folk Song Society of Greater Boston "Bound For Glory" a Woody Guthrie tribute |
| 3:10-4:00 | Raymond St. Klezmer Band |
Robert Frost Stage (subject to change)
| 12:00-12:30 | Taller Borinqueno |
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| 12:30-1:00 | Annamaria San Antonio and Friends |
| 1:00-1:30 | Center of Performing Arts Methuen |
| 1:30-2:10 | Juggler Henry Lappen |
| 2:10-2:40 | Wool & Grant |
| 2:40-3:00 | Susan Lenoe, As Anne Bradstreet |
| 3:00-3:30 | Italian Serenaders |
| 3:30-4:00 | O'Shea-Chaplin Irish Dancers |
Family Activities
| 12:00-6:00 | Exhibits on the Common and the Heritage Stage Park Visitor's Center |
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| 12:30-3:30 | Pony Rides by J & J Pony |
| 12:00-4:00 | Face Painting |
| 12:00-4:40 | Trolley Tours- Free 50min tours depart from City Hall every 20 minutes starting at 12:00(last trolly is at 4:40PM). Get tickets at the Frends of Lawrence Heritage State Park tent! |
| TBA | Walking Tours- of the mill district, focusing on the Strike of 1912. Meet at the corner of Common and Jackson Streets, time TBA. |
| 12:00-7:00 | Hula Hooping on The Common, for the young and young at heart! Hula Hoops will be provided on The Common for all to share! Let's see your moves! |
| 12:00-3:30 | Power Loom- Feel the noise and vibration; see the complexity of a working power loom. Provided courtesy of Lowell National Historical Park. |
| 12:00-5:00 | Portraits by artist Ed Bray |
Lawrence History Live! 2012
| 12:30 | Dan Ahearn, reading his poem, “The City of Cloth” |
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| 12:35-1:00 |
Jonas Stundza, on the history and significance of the three 1912 Strike victims' grave-site memorials Guest: Carol Fernandez, relative of Jonas Smolskas |
| 1:00-1:30 | Robert d'Attilio, on Arturo Giovannitti, poet and leader of the 1912 Strike |
| 1:30-2:00 | Rev. Robert Murphy, on "Bread and Roses: Environmental Justice in 1912" |
| 2:00-2:45 |
Ramón Borges-Mendez, Clark University, on the Context of Latino Immigration to Lawrence after the 1960s Guests: Members of the community who came to Lawrence after the 1960s tell the story of their experience Domingo Melendez Annia Lembert Francisco Brea, AFL-CIO and others |
| 2:45-3:15 |
Union activists and members report on their current job actions |
| 3:15-3:45 |
Steve Thornton, on the IWW's immigrant reality and modern-day immigrants and unions
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Sponsored by the Bread & Roses Heritage Committee, Inc.
Jurg & Linda Siegenthaler, organizers