Wednesday, May 1
5:00 pm Social Hour (cash bar)
6:00 pm Traditional Italian Dinner
7:00 pm Bread and Roses, Too Katherine Paterson, award-winning children's author, talks about her young adult historical novel inspired by the picture of children of the 1912 Lawrence textile strikers on the steps of the Old Labor Hall. The book was selected by the Vermont Humanities Council for Vermont Reads 2018.
Tickets: $25 at the door
Sunday, April 14 at 5:00 pm
Performance followed by Bread and Puppet's famous free sourdough rye bread with aioli and the Old Labor Hall's delicious soup.
Bread & Puppet Theater returns to The Old Labor Hall with a performance of Diagonal Man: Theory & Praxis.
The bewildering, beguiling, and downright funny implications of diagonality will spring to life when the internationally-acclaimed Bread & Puppet Theater enthralls us with its annual performance, featuring song, dance, magic, and stunning cardboard and paper maché puppets.
Sunday, April 7 at 7:00 pm (Admission Free)
This is the passionate, thoughtful biography of the founder of the American Socialist Party, five-time presidential candidate and the only presidential candidate in US history to be imprisoned for his campaign platform and run from jail.
Saturday, December 15, 2018 from 4:00 to 9:00 pm
The Barre Historical Society announces the grand reopening of the Bakery building, exactly 105 years to the day from its first opening.
The restored Bakery building is now ready to bake. The sewer has been connected and the heating and electricity, and all the other amenities have now been installed to complement the wood-fired oven. The Bakery is already to make the baked goods from start to finish—all right on the premises. Let the festivities begin!
For schedule . . .
Saturday, November 17 at 8:00 pm (doors open at 7:00 pm)
WORST. SONG. EVER. returns to the Old Labor Hall. This semiannual live music event going has been going for five years. This event celebrates decades & decades of really bad pop music for the benefit of the Old Labor Hall.
Advanced sign up is required if you want to perform. Get all the details.
Sunday, October 28 at 6:30 pm
Admission Free
Former owner of Montpelier's Savoy Theater, Rick Winston presents the 1976 production of The Front.
This acclaimed comedy/drama, with its serious and compelling theme, vividly brings to life one of America’s most disturbing memories: the Communist “witch hunts” of the 1950s.
Saturday, October 27 at 7:00 pm
Admission Free
Former Central Vermonter and widely-syndicated political cartoonist and author Jeff Danziger returns to lift our spirits with the cutting wit that has made him famous nationwide.
Monday, September 3, 2:30 - 9:00 pm
With the first phase of the restoration of Barre’s former Union Cooperative Store bakery building nearing completion, bread and music will take center stage at this year’s Labor Day celebration at Barre’s historic Old Labor Hall.
The festivities will be held in conjunction with the Hall’s participation in the statewide Vermont Reads program and the soft opening of the bakery building in its new incarnation as the Rise Up Bakery .
All events are free and open to the public.
Here is the schedule:
2:30 to 4:00 Fun activities for families
4:00 to 5:00 Special Labor Day program celebrating the Bread & Roses Strike and the renovation of the Bakery
5:00 to 5:30 Visit to Rise Up bakery
7:00 pm Presentation - "Solidarity Forever: Songs of Unions and Labor"
For more details about the events -
Thursday, July 26, 5:30 - 8:30 pm
This year again, as part of the Barre Heritage Festival, the Old Labor Hall is celebrating Barre's French Canadian heritage with Soirée Sucrée 2018 in honor of the Barre Historical Society's late president Chet Briggs.
The evening, the perfect combination of sweet eats and sweet sounds, is divided into three exciting components—all for one low price.
►French Dessert Competition
►French Dessert Tasting
►French-Canadian music by Michèle Choinière
Sunday, June 24 at 7:00 pm
Admission free
Pride is an award winning film about the unlikely alliance between striking miners and the gay and lesbian community in Britain in the 1980s.
Based on a true story set during the miners’ strike of 1984 in Thatcher’s Britain, the film is based on the story of a group of gay activists working to help support the striking miners — despite the fact that the miners aren’t exactly thrilled by the prospect of throwing in their lot with gays.
