Thursday July 27, 2023 | 4:30 - 7:30PM

at the Tenderloin Museum | 398 Eddy Street SF, CA 94102

Free! No registration required

Join the Tenderloin Museum and LaborFest for an evening of global poetry for human rights and equality for all featuring poets from across the Bay Area, including the Revolutionary Poets Brigade & Worker’s Voices!

Labor Fest hosts an evening of poetry at the Tenderloin Museum, presented as part of Education for Action: California Labor School, 1942-1957, a collaboration between TLM & SFSU’s Labor Archives that celebrates the radical, union-founded worker’s school. Established in the TL, the California Labor School was remarkable for its efforts to educate the “whole person” by offering a robust complement of humanities courses in tandem with classes on trade skills and organizing. Now, its curriculum is inspiring the public programs connected to the special exhibit on view at the Tenderloin Museum, including the rich tradition of poetry to articulate and advance the experience and struggle of the working class.

The Revolutionary Poets Brigade is a group of poets in the San Francisco Bay Area dedicated to bringing positive change in the world through the power of poetry. They are poised to gather for community actions at any venue . . . including the streets! Founded in 2009, they call on all poets to put their powerful words in the service of struggles already in motion.

Featured members of the Revolutionary Poets Brigade include Lisbit Bailey, Kristina Brown, John Curl, D.L. Lang, Karen Melander-Magoon, Sarah Menefee, Dorothy Payne, Roarschock, Nina Serrano, Raymond Nat Turner and others!

Workers’ Voices, Workers’ Power kicks off the program with short monologues & spoken word pieces from the picket line to the protest rally and beyond! For more information contact Bill Shields at billshieldssf@gmail.com

Open mic to follow scheduled readers!