2011 Schedule
Past Schedule of Events — May Day 2011
Fun activities throughout the day on the New Haven Green:
- The Amazing Andy Visit the Amazing Andy Website!
- Carrot Man Follow on YouTube.com
- Face painting
- Participatory graffiti wall art project
- Social service and activist information tables
- Free food
- Display of May Day History
11:00 am | Meet for May Day March (City Hall) |
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12:00 noon | March leaves starting point |
12:00 noon | Moonshine Kellie (singer/songwriter and poet) www.myspace.com/moonshinekellie |
12:15 | Bread Is Rising Poetry Collective from NYC www.thebreadisrising.org |
12:30 | Modern Rock/Spoken Word Songstress, Shadow www.d-o-music.com |
1:00 | Maxwell Clark (poetry) www.counterpunch.org |
1:15 | Music to welcome march back |
1:30 | March returns to Green |
1:30 | Promoting Enduring Peace, Gandhi Peace Award to Rabbis for Human Rights www.pepeace.org |
1:35 | May Day opening statement and song |
1:40 | Speakers / Fernandito Ferrer (Puerto Rican folk music) www.myspace.com/fernanditoferrer |
2:10 | Elaine Peters - Community Movement (participatory Caribbean dance) |
2:25 | Human Peace Sign www.humanpeace.org |
2:30 | Josephine Dixon Banks (poet) www.timbooktu.com/dixonbnk/dixonbnk.htm Follow on YouTube.com |
2:45 | Betty Alford: cafeteria worker at Truman School, member of UNITE HERE Local 217 |
2:50 | John Olsen: President of the CT State AFL-CIO |
3:00 | Family Work History Project featuring Katherine Brennan School 8th grade students, Worthington Hooker School 6th and 8th grade students and musician Mike Kachuba www.laborhistory.org |
3:30 | Joseph FireCrow (Native American flute music) www.josephfirecrow.com |
4:00 | Maypole Dance led by Out On A Whim featuring Bill Fischer and Mickey Koth |
4:30 | The Harris Brothers' Balkan Band (Balkan music) www.myspace.com/harrisbrothersband |
5:00 | Chief Seattle Speaks - word and music, Steve Bellwood and Shula Weinstein www.stevebellwood.com |
5:15 | The Coalition (hip- hop) |
5:30 | Not Here (alternative rhythmic rock) www.myspace.com/nothereband |
6:00 | May Day Statement |
6:00 | Rick Reyes & Cosmic Jibaros (Latin rock) www.myspace.com/cosmicjibaros |