SPECIAL EVENTS
OPENING CEREMONY AT THE BERNSTEIN STAGE (11:30AM-11:45AM)
Remarks by Bread and Roses Heritage Committee board members and our community partners at the Lawrence Public Library, plus a special musical tribute featuring Already Dead.
HISTORIC TROLLEY TOURS (12:00-4:30PM)
2 TOURS IN SPANISH 2PM AND 3PM
FREE 50 minute tour of Lawrence. Leaves every 30 mins starting with the first trolley at 12pm and the last trolley at 4:30 pm. Tickets at the Friends of the Lawrence Heritage State Park Table.
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HISTORIC WALKING TOURS (1:00 AND 3:00PM)
FREE - meet at the Strikers Monument on the Common across from City Hall.
Walking tours will depart at 1:00pm, and 3:00pm.
Held at the Teoli Stage. Honoring Mary and Antonio Guerrero. featuring The Merrimack Valley Youth Choir at YDO singing "Lift Me Up"
BREAD AND PUPPET THEATER (5:00PM-6:00PM)
The Bread and Puppet Theater was founded in 1963 by Peter Schumann on New York City’s Lower East Side. Besides rod-puppet and hand puppet shows for children, the concerns of the first productions were rents, rats, police, and other problems of the neighborhood. More complex theater pieces followed, in which sculpture, music, dance and language were equal partners. The puppets grew bigger and bigger. Annual presentations for Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving and Memorial Day often included children and adults from the community as participants. Many performances were done in the street. During the Vietnam War, Bread and puppet staged
block-long processions and pageants involving hundreds of people.
In 1974 Bread and Puppet moved to a farm in Glover in the Northeast Kingdom of
Vermont. The 140-year old hay barn was transformed into a museum for veteran puppets. Our Domestic Resurrection Circus, a two day outdoor festival of puppetry shows, was
presented annually through 1998.
Bread and Puppet is one of the oldest, nonprofit, political theatre companies in the country.
LIVE CHALK ART BY KATE DELANEY
THROUGHOUT THE DAY
Kate Delaney will be creating a piece throughout the day honoring our Hall Of Fame award inductees Mary and Antonio Guerrero. Please swing by and add to the piece by grabbing a piece of chalk and sharing the first word that comes to mind when you think of the Guerrero’s / El Taller / Cafe Azteca.