First Strike Festival 2024
Schedule
Sat May 11 2024 at 12:00 pm to 04:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
67 Roosevelt Avenue, Pawtucket, RI, United States, Rhode Island 02860 | Pawtucket, RI
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Join us for community celebration and 200-year commemoration of the first industrial worker's strike in the United States.Hosted at Old Slater Mill National Historic Landmark on Saturday, May 11, 2024 from 12 PM - 4 PM in downtown Pawtucket, RI.
THINGS TO DO:
📍Tours and Talks
Tour Slater Mill with a ranger (10:30 AM, 12:30 PM, or 2:30 PM)
Meet in front of Slater Mill – limited to 25 persons
Drop in for a Labor History Talk with a ranger (offered on the hour, 1, 2, 3) - meet in the Slater Mill Bell Tower
First Strike History Open Air Presentation with a ranger (11:30 AM, 3:30 PM) - outdoor discussion led by a ranger
📍Performance Schedule:
12:00 PM - Acoustic Folk Music and Welcome from J. Michael Graham
12:30 PM - Live Music by Singer Songwriter Kim Moberg
1:30 PM - Dance Performance by Students from the Jacqueline M. Walsh School for the Performing and Visual Arts (Pawtucket, RI) - inspired by the 1824 strikers
2:00 PM - Dance Performance by the Mystic Garland Dancers & Maypole Group Dance
2:45 PM - Live Music by Connecticut State Troubadour Kala Farnham
📍Additional Demonstrations and Activities
⏺Dance around a maypole and play old time games
⏺Check out a pop-up exhibit on 200 years of Labor History created with students from Providence College
⏺Learn how objects from the past can teach us about our world today with Everyday Anthropology & Andy Volpe
⏺See fiber arts demonstrations with Wedges of Time and see the Rhode Island Spinning Guild at work
⏺Pick up a history poster & talk with the Rhode Island Labor History Society
⏺Meet the Rhode Island Master Gardeners
GET MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE 1824 STRIKE and this event here: https://www.nps.gov/blrv/learn/historyculture/1824-strike.htm
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Where is it happening?
67 Roosevelt Avenue, Pawtucket, RI, United States, Rhode Island 02860Event Location & Nearby Stays:
