In celebration of labor history month, the Untold Stories series presents programs and talks on both local and national labor history topics.
Untold Stories is coordinated by The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library and all events are free and open to the public.
For a complete listing of Untold Stories events please click here.
Upcoming Untold Stories events include:
David Bacon: Illegal People
Thursday, April 12, 7 pm
Macalester College, Weyerhaeuser Chapel, 1600 Grand Avenue
Writer and photojournalist David Bacon returns to the Untold Stories series with a talk on his new book Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants. Bacon is also the author of Children of NAFTA and the photo-documentary project Communities Without Borders.
Ricardo Dominguez
Tuesday, April 17, 5 pm
University of Minnesota, Regis Center for Art (East), Influx Room, 405 21st Avenue South, Minneapolis
The 18th annual David Noble Lecture, presented by the American Studies Department, features Professor Ricardo Dominguez, co-founder of the Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT). He is co-Director of Thing (thing.net) an ISP for artists and activists, and an Associate Professor at University of California San Diego in the Visual Arts Department.
Woody Guthrie at 100
Thursday, April 19, 7 pm
St. Paul Labor Centre, 411 Main Street
Celebrate the centennial of Woody Guthrie’s birth with a program featuring folk singer Darryl Holter, a former labor education director for the Wisconsin AFL-CIO and labor educator at UCLA, who has developed a “Woody Guthrie in Los Angeles” presentation/performance, and renowned Twin Cities labor troubadour Larry Long, who has applied and extended Woody Guthrie’s aesthetics and energies for the past four decades.