The 24th Annual Bread and Roses Festival!!

Labor Day, September 1, 2008 will mark the 24th annual Bread and Roses Festival! We will celebrate Lawrence's labor history and ethnic diversity, and particularly the historic, heroic events of 1912, the Bread and Roses Strike. We celebrate with a variety of music and dance, poetry and drama, ethnic food, historical demonstrations, and walking and trolley tours, all on or starting from Lawrence's Common. We also host organizations continuing the struggle for social justice today. Bread and Roses is the only festival in the region which celebrates the true spirit of Labor Day, in the most appropriate location, the site of the Bread and Roses Strike. And it is the only broadly multicultural festival in Lawrence, the Immigrant City

The Festival is organized by the Bread and Roses Heritage Committee, Inc., a non-profit, all-volunteer organization. We welcome involvement by anyone interested in celebrating Lawrence's special heritage. Here are some ways for individuals and organizations to get involved:

• Joining the festival planning committee
• Helping distribute publicity materials
• Volunteering on the day of the festival
• Operating a food vendor booth, which can be a fund-raiser for you
• Having an informational table to promote your organization
• Sponsoring an act or a stage
• Contributing financially, or helping with fund-raising
• Whatever you'd like to do to help!

For more information contact Jim Beauchesne at Lawrence Heritage Park Tel: 978-794-1655 Email: jim.beauchesne@state.ma.us
Or breadandroses99@hotmail.com.

We'd love to hear from you! And we'll see you on Labor Day!