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DESCRIPTION:"World Factory” And Chinese Workers In The Global Economy From Theater To 
 Music\nAnd Honoring the Chinese Workers Who Built the Transcontinental 
 Railway\nChinese workers are the largest working-class in the world and 260 
 million of these workers are migrant workers from throughout the many 
 regions of China. They play a central role in the world economy because 
 China has become the central link in the “World Factory”.\nGrass Stage 
 is the production company that helped develop this play about the role of 
 the migrant Chinese worker in this global production chain.\n Playwright 
 Zhao Chuan visited Manchester, England and from this visit developed the 
 play reflecting the experience and lives of the Chinese workers who make 
 the many products we use in the United States and throughout the world.\n 
 Joining Chuan to perform the segments of this play will be:\nWu Meng, 
 theatre artist, freelance writer, founding member of Grass Stage.\nYu Kai, 
 artist, freelance writer and teacher. Since 2006, she was the main creator 
 and performer in many Grass Stage productions.\nWu Jiamin, the main 
 creator, performer and executive producer of “World Factory”.\nThere 
 will also be musical performance by Xu Guojian, who is with the Beijing 
 Migrant Workers Home. Head of New Worker’s Art Troupe and Chairman of 
 Trade Union in Pi Village Community, Leader of Workers’ Museum, and 
 Director of Spring Festival Gala for and by Migrant workers.\n Also Dong 
 Jun, leader of Zhongdiyin Cultural Center for Workers, initiator, leader, 
 vocalist, and percussionist of Zhongdiyin Worker’s Band, will perform.\n 
 The lives and artistic expression of this new young working class is a 
 growing development in China, and their songs tell the story of the lives 
 and their struggles in the new China.\n\n There will also be a presentation 
 by Stanford lecturer\nHilton Obenzinger who is Associate Director, Stanford 
 Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project about the building of the 
 Transcontinental Railway on the 150th anniversary of its construction by 
 the 50,000 Chinese workers who came to America to build it. These Chinese 
 workers played an important and critical role in building America and also 
 led the first and largest strike at that time in California history 
 starting on June 25, 1867. We honor them for the work they did in building 
 America.\n For more information contact: (415) 642-8066\n Sponsored by 
 LaborFest\nSee also: 
 \nhttp://www.artsnetworkasia.org/directory_detail.php?id=2419 (Grass Stage 
 of 
 Shanghai)\nhttp://web.stanford.edu/group/chineserailroad/cgi-bin/wordpress/\nhttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/tcrr-strike/\nhttp://www.cprr.org/Museum/Maps/ 
 (Railroad Maps)\nWork of Giants: The Chinese and the Building of the First 
 Transcontinental Railroad-SF Chinese Historical Society Exhibit at 
 \nhttp://chsa.org/exhibits/online-exhibits/work-of-giants-the-chinese-and-the-building-of-the-first-transcontinental-railroad/\nhttp://www.laborfest.net/2015/2015schedule.htm\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/06/21/18773777.php
SUMMARY:Laborfest: "World Factory” & Chinese Workers From Theater To Music
LOCATION:ILWU Local 34 Hall, 801 Second St., San Francisco. Next to baseball 
 stadium. Walk the one mile from Market on Second or on the Embarcadero to 
 801 Second Street or take public transportation: \nT or N train from 
 Embarcadero Station to Second and King Station; \n30 or 45 bus from Market 
 and Fifth Streets (Powell Station) to end of line at Townsend between 
 Fourth and Third, then walk one block to Second Street; \n47 bus which 
 starts at North Point at Fisherman’s Wharf,  travels on Van Ness, 11th 
 St, Bryant and ends at Cal Train Station at 4th and Townsend, then walk on 
 Townsend 2 blocks to Second Street; \n10 bus which runs from Van Ness on 
 Pacific to Battery, on Battery to Second St to Third and Townsend, so get 
 off at Second Street and Townsend. Also runs from 25th and Potrero, on 
 Cesar Chavez St,  Wisconsin, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Townsend to Second 
 Street.\n
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