2011 Schedule

Past Schedule of Events — May Day 2011

Fun activities throughout the day on the New Haven Green:

11:00 amMeet for May Day March (City Hall)
12:00 noonMarch leaves starting point
12:00 noonMoonshine Kellie (singer/songwriter and poet) www.myspace.com/moonshinekellie
12:15Bread Is Rising Poetry Collective from NYC www.thebreadisrising.org
12:30Modern Rock/Spoken Word Songstress, Shadow www.d-o-music.com
1:00Maxwell Clark (poetry) www.counterpunch.org
1:15Music to welcome march back
1:30March returns to Green
1:30Promoting Enduring Peace, Gandhi Peace Award to Rabbis for Human Rights www.pepeace.org
1:35May Day opening statement and song
1:40Speakers / Fernandito Ferrer (Puerto Rican folk music) www.myspace.com/fernanditoferrer
2:10Elaine Peters - Community Movement (participatory Caribbean dance)
2:25Human Peace Sign www.humanpeace.org
2:30Josephine Dixon Banks (poet) www.timbooktu.com/dixonbnk/dixonbnk.htm Follow on YouTube.com
2:45Betty Alford: cafeteria worker at Truman School, member of UNITE HERE Local 217
2:50John Olsen: President of the CT State AFL-CIO
3:00Family 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
3:30Joseph FireCrow (Native American flute music) www.josephfirecrow.com
4:00Maypole Dance led by Out On A Whim featuring Bill Fischer and Mickey Koth
4:30The Harris Brothers' Balkan Band (Balkan music) www.myspace.com/harrisbrothersband
5:00Chief Seattle Speaks - word and music, Steve Bellwood and Shula Weinstein www.stevebellwood.com
5:15The Coalition (hip- hop)
5:30Not Here (alternative rhythmic rock) www.myspace.com/nothereband
6:00May Day Statement
6:00Rick Reyes & Cosmic Jibaros (Latin rock) www.myspace.com/cosmicjibaros

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