Museum of Work & Culture Moves Labor Day Celebrations Online with Series of Virtual Programs & Films
WOONSOCKET, R.I. – The Museum of Work & Culture will be hosting its annual Labor Day festivities online this year, with a series of pre-recorded presentations and film screenings. Programs will be released daily at 10 am on the Museum’s Facebook page beginning on Thursday, September 3 through Labor Day, Monday September 7.
Events will include:
Thursday, September 3:
Labor historian & author Dr. Scott Molloy on Irish Immigrant industrialist Joseph Bannigan and the Rubber Strike of 1885.
Friday, September 4:
Artist & professor Zach Horn offers a gallery preview of “United We Bargain, Divided We Beg,” with insights into his inspiration, subjects, and process of honoring unions in his art.
Saturday, September 5:
RI Labor History Society Executive Board member and Truman Scholar Autumn Guillotte presents “Americanism and a Woman’s Right to Her Country,” exploring the rights of female textile workers at the turn-of-the-century.
Sunday, September 6:
Interdisciplinary artist and educator Jayme Winell presents “Keeping the Flame Burning: Lessons, Movements and Songs for Today’s Changemakers” a segment inspired by her one-woman dance-play about her union organizing, rabble rousing grandmother Ann Burlak Timpson.
Monday, September 7:
A compilation of never-before-seen interview footage with Union Activist Ann Burlak.
This series of events is made possible in part by the Rhode Island Labor History Society and the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities.
About the Museum of Work & Culture
The interactive and educational Museum of Work & Culture shares the stories of the men, women, and children who came to find a better life in Rhode Island’s mill towns in the late 19th- and 20th centuries. It recently received a Rhode Island Monthly Best of Rhode Island Award for its SensAbilities Saturdays all-ability program.
About the Rhode Island Historical Society
Founded in 1822, the RIHS, a Smithsonian Affiliate, is the fourth-oldest historical society in the United States and is Rhode Island’s largest and oldest historical organization. In Providence, the RIHS owns and operates the John Brown House Museum, a designated National Historic Landmark, built in 1788; the Aldrich House, built in 1822 and used for administration and public programs; and the Mary Elizabeth Robinson Research Center, where archival, book and image collections are housed. In Woonsocket, the RIHS manages the Museum of Work and Culture, a community