2011 Labor Arts Exchange & Creative Organizing Conference Set
Tuesday, May 24, 2011(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)
This year, the Labor Heritage Foundation’s annual arts
celebration – scheduled for Friday
June 17 to Sunday June 19 at the National Labor College – promises to
empower participants with “cultural tools to combat fear and inject excitement
into union and political campaigns,” reports the LHF. The Great Labor Arts
Exchange is a gathering of union and community activists, rank-and-filers,
organizers, cultural workers, artists, labor educators, and youth who use songs,
art, poetry, theater, skits, posters, cartoons, and film to strengthen the labor
movement. The Conference on Creative Organizing is a series of workshops for
union staff, organizers, activists, and rank-and-filers where participants learn
how to think outside the box and approach organizing challenges creatively using
the arts. The arts celebration will also feature Camp Solidarity, an “exciting
weekend day camp program designed to enrich the lives of young people, ages
7-17, with opportunities to develop lasting friendships and explore social
justice, human rights, civil rights, and union/labor history and culture through
the creative arts.” Click
here for complete details and to register online. -
photo: at the 2009 Great Labor Arts Exchange; photo by Adam
Wright