2009 Schedule

Schedule for May Day 2009

12:00May Day Statement and songs
12:15New Haven Contra Jammers (contra music)
12:45Speak out and open mike*
1:00Be Hip Be Fit walk around the Green sponsored by Community Services Network
1:00Elaine Kolb (folk music)
1:30speak out and open mike*
1:45Bread Is Rising (poetry)
2:00Soccer exhibition announced from stage continued off stage
2:00Steve Bloom (poetry)
2:15CT Peace Coalition
2:30Sons Of God (reggae rap music)
3:00Brian Jarawa Gray (African drumming)
3:30Revival (heavy blues rock band)
4:00Maypole Dance : led by Out On A Whim featuring Bill Fischer and Mickey Koth
4:30Joseph FireCrow (Native American music)
5:00Valarie Kaur (speaker) creator/writer/producer of documentary film Divided We Fall: Americans in the Aftermath
5:15Mr. Bronx (reggae rap music)
5:45Parker's Tangent (alternative rock)
6:15Reyes Del Bajo Mundo (radical Latin hip hop)
6:45Kenneth Brown Jr. from Center for New Community will speak, followed by march

*Speak out time throughout the day in between acts as time allows.

Off-stage activities

Tables, displays and exhibits throughout the Green
Children's activities
Graffiti Wall
Flint Ladder Circus
Soccer workshop
Face painting

In case of rain, the May Day program will be held at United Church on the Green, 270 Temple Street (corner Elm Street).

Special thanks to Ace and Son Sound for providing our sound system (203 494-4003).

Join us on
Friday, May 1st, 2009,
Noon to 7 p.m.
for New Haven's
May Day Celebrations.

May Day 2009 Poster

Download and print
our May Day 2009 poster
and get the word out!

(PDF file, 591KB)

Schedule of Events

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schedule of events.

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