The Museum of Work & Culture will be hosting its annual Labor Day festivities online this year, with a series of pre-recorded presentations and film screenings. Programs will be released daily at 10 am on the Museum’s Facebook page beginning on Thursday, September 3 Labor Day, Monday September 7. Events will include: 

Thursday, September 3: Labor historian & author Dr. Scott Molloy on Irish Immigrant industrialist Joseph Bannigan and the Rubber Strike of 1885. 

Friday, September 4: Artist & professor Zach Horn offers a gallery preview of “United We Bargain, Divided We Beg,” with insights into his inspiration, subjects, and process of honoring unions in his art. 

Saturday, September 5: RI Labor History Society Executive Board member and Truman Scholar Autumn Guillotte presents “Americanism and a Woman’s Right to Her Country,” exploring the rights of female textile workers at the turn-of-the-century. 

Sunday, September 6: Interdisciplinary artist and educator Jayme Winell presents “Keeping the Flame Burning: Lessons, Movements and Songs for Today’s Changemakers” a segment inspired by her one-woman dance-play about her union organizing, rabble rousing grandmother Ann Burlak Timpson. 

Monday, September 7: A compilation of never-before-seen interview footage with Union Activist Ann Burlak. 

This series of events is made possible in part by the Rhode Island Labor History Society and the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities.