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.
Sunday, June 3 at 7:00 pm
This is your chance to hear Larry Hanks and Deborah Robins in concert at the Old Labor Hall on the New England leg of their 2018 Road to Obscurity Tour. You will hear "OLD AMERICAN SONGS from Old American Songsters!"
Larry Hanks and Deborah Robins don’t try to complicate a song. They don’t add frills and trills and needless grace notes. Instead, they choose great old songs and sing them in a straightforward way that gets right to the essence of the music.
Sunday, May 6 at 7:00 pm
Admission free
For the sixth year, the Old Labor Hall adds Barre, VT, to the worldwide list of cities participating in the 2018 Global Labor Film Festival (held each May by the Labor Film Database).
This year we are screening the classic Harlan County, USA, the first feature-length documentary by legendary filmmaker Barbara Kopple. The film tells the story of the epic 973 coal miners' strike against Duke Power's Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky.
Sunday, April 29 at 4:00 pm
Free and open to the public
Dr. William Tortolano will talk about the impact of the WPA art projects in Vermont. The depression was a highly creative period . . .
Saturday, April 28
For Primo Maggio 2018, the Socialist Labor Party Hall continues the tradition of Primo Maggio commemorations begun by the founders of the Hall with the combination of food, fun, and education favored in the early days of the Hall.
5:00 pm Social Hour (cash bar)
6:00 pm Traditional Italian Dinner
7:00 pm Solidarity Forever: Preserving Historic Union Halls
Dr. Rachel C. Donaldson, Assistant Professor in the History Department of the College of Charleston, SC, will talk about the place of the Old Labor Hall . . .
The Socialist Labor Party Hall is hosting a memorable series of events for the spring season, starting with our annual commemoration of Primo Maggio:
Primo Maggio Dinner
Saturday, April 28, beginning at 5:00 pm Traditional Italian Dinner followed by a presentation Solidarity Forever: Preserving Historic Union Halls. Tickets $25.
Presentation: The WPA: The Depression and Great Art
Sunday, April 29 at 4:00 pm. Free.
Global Labor Film Festival: Harlan County USA
Sunday, May 6 at 7:00 pm. Free.
Larry Hanks & Deborah Robins - West Coast folk song duo
Sunday, June 3 at 7:00 pm.
Sunday, March 18
Performance at 5:00 pm 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 brand new play, The Basic Bye-bye Show, a manifesto on transformation, inspired by Albrecht Dürer’s apocalyptic woodcuts, birch branches lost during an ice storm, and the daily news.
Friday February 2 at 8:00 pm (doors open at 7:00 pm)
Worst. Song. Ever contestants perform really bad pop songs, from any era. The audience votes for its unfavorite with $$, half of which support the Hall.
Sunday, November 12 at 4:00 pm
Benson Scotch explores the constitutional, political, strategic, and historical factors that have influenced the use of America’s military force in his multi-media presentation, "Who Decides About War?" His discussion focuses on the question of what constitutes "war" in the 21st century and what are the legal bases for deploying the United States' military power.
This is the inaugural event in the Barre Historical Society's Thomas C. Davis Public Issues Series.
Admission is free.
