Scholarships Available for Creative Organizing Conference
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Scholarships are available for anyone who wants to participate in the Conference on Creative Organizing, June 17–19 at the National Labor College in Silver Spring, Md., and doesn’t have money for the registration fee. To find out more about the scholarship, call 202-639-6204. The information is not available online.
You also have time to register online for the Great Labor Arts Exchange and the Creative Organizing Conference. The three-day festival brings together more than 100 union and social justice activists who combine union mobilization and outreach with songs, skits, art, poetry, theater, posters, cartoons and film. For more information or to register online for either event, click here.
Sponsored for more than 30 years by the Labor Heritage Foundation, the Great Labor Arts Exchange celebrates the rich cultural heritage of working people and serves as a forum that brings together talented labor artists, activists, cultural workers, educators and students.
New this year is Camp Solidarity, designed to bring the arts and cultures of the union and progressive movements to a new generation.
Organizing and Mobilizing with Flair
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For four days next week, the campus of the National Labor College (NLC) in Silver Spring, Md., will reverberate with the sounds of music, poetry and creative chants and art.
From June 20-23, some 100 union and social justice activists will participate in the annual Great Labor Arts Exchange and Conference on Creative Organizing, programs that combine union mobilization and outreach with songs, skits, art, poetry, theater, posters, cartoons and film.
For 31 years, the Great Labor Arts Exchange has celebrated the rich cultural heritage of working people and served as a forum that brings together talented labor artists, activists, cultural workers, educators and students.
Last year, the Great Labor Arts Exchange featured a wealth of new, young talent. Some of last year’s featured events included a giant puppet show by two members of the United Steelworkers (USW) who showed participants one way to use street theater to deliver a message. Tayo Aluko, a Nigerian who now lives in Liverpool, England, performed a one-man show on the life of actor and human rights activist Paul Robeson.
