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SF Call For Art To "Remember The Triangle Fire" And Workplace Health And Safety Today

by N.CA Triangle Fire Commemoration Committee
A call for art to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 1911 Triangle Fire has been made by the N. CA Organizing Committee and LaborFest. It will be displayed during commemoration events.
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SF Call For Art To "Remember The Triangle Fire" And Workplace Health And Safety Today

REMEMBER THE TRIANGLE. IMPROVE WORKERS LIVES TODAY.

The Northern California Organizing Committee and LaborFest join in sponsoring
the 100th Year Commemoration of the Triangle Fire. Visual artists are asked to
contribute work in any medium addressing the legacy of the Triangle Shirtwaist
Factory fire, New York City, of March 25, 1911, and the unfinished business of
addressing workplace health and safety for all in today’s volatile, changing
world.

Gap, Abercrombie, JC Penney, Phillips-Van Heusen and other garment manufacturers
perpetuate the hazardous conditions that Triangle owners Max Blanck and Isaac
Harris profited from in the early twentieth century. It is in Bangladesh where
these contemporary manufacturers profit while fires and collapsing buildings
continue to kill hundreds of garment workers. In America, workplace health and
safety continues to affect workers’ lives — meatpacking plants, agricultural
fields, and biological laboratories, to name a few, are dangerous places to
work.

Art from San Francisco Bay Area artists will be installed for one day at the
International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 34 hall on March 26th,
and will complement other live events (may be extended for two weeks). Artists
must be able to deliver and pick up work. A virtual exhibition of these local
artworks and additional artworks from outside the Bay Area will be hosted by
LaborFest at their website.

Submission material should be sent to David Duckworth at duckdiva(at)yahoo.com, or
by regular post to: David Duckworth, 1600 California Street #21, San Francisco,
CA 94109 (with SASE if requiring return). Please send curriculum vitae, .jpg or
.pdf digital image files (up to five) with an accompanying image list detailing:
title of work, date of execution, medium, and dimensions. Inclusion of art in
the hall and at the website will be determined by committee. Submissions must
be received by February 21st. Participants will be notified by February 21st;
all artists will receive a response.

For further information about Triangle fire commemorative events, visit:
http://rememberthetrianglefire.org/

For further information about LaborFest, visit: http://www.laborfest.net/

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by N.CA Triangle Fire Commemoration Committee
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1/22/2011 N. California Organizing Committee Public Meeting To Commemorate 100th Anniversary Of The Triangle Fire
Saturday January 22, 11:00 AM City College of San Francisco Mission Campus, at 1125 Valencia Street Room 277 between 22nd and 23rd

Dear Brothers and Sisters,
There will be a public organizing meeting to help build and plan events for the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Fire which took place in 1911 in NYC. We invite artists, historians, musicians, labor supporters/activists, videographers and journalists to participate in this important commemoration in working class history. This event was important for women, immigrants, health and safety advocates along with human rights activists throughout the US.
There is a national effort to have events throughout the US http://www.rememberthetrianglefire.org and there are now organizing committee in Los Angeles and Northern California.
Present proposed events in Northern California include:

Events:
Friday March 11 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM Labor and Community Studies SF City College, Ocean Campus
Remembering Triangle, Connecting the Struggles Past and Present
Performance Rocking solidarity chorus, Judith Offer play segments and/or video highlights, Gay Ducey one women play on Triangle at Mission Campus
Chinese progressive Ass, Collectiva women workers group exhibit of their work, Eileen Evitt, theaters readings of Judith Offer
As domestic workers

March 25, 2010 5:30 – 8:00 PM Worksafe in Oakland Commemorating the Triangle Fire
Hilton Garden Inn Emeryville

March 26, 2010 6:30 PM Readings with Julia Stein, Alice Rogoff, Hilton Obenzinger, Yiddish & Italian Labor Music, Multi-Media Presentation
http://www.LaborFest.org
ILWU Local 34
5 Berry Street next to AT&T Park

March 27, 2010 1:00 PM Jewish Community Library 1835 Ellis St.
Panel Jewish response to Triangle Fire and Reading and Yiddish songs

March 28, 2010 Proposing film shown on PBS Film on Triangle and discussion
San Francisco Labor Council Educational Meeting

National events can be found at http://www.trianglefire.org

For more information call (415)867-0628
or email n-ca-triangle-fire-committee [at] googlegroups.com
Endorsed bySan Francisco Labor Council, LaborFEST, San Francisco City College Labor Studies Program, Labor Video Project, San Francisco Mime Troupe, California NOW
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