Saturday, May 4 at 7:00 pm

The Primo Maggio festivities continue with a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of the world famous folksinger, the late Pete Seeger.

The concert and sing-along features Anything Goes, the duo of long-time central Vermont musicians Ben Koenig and Mark Greenberg, who will play Pete's favorites, both the songs he wrote and the ones he loved. Get ready to sing out!

Tickets are available in advance online or at the door:  $12 or $10 for seniors, students, and union members.

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Thursday, May 2 at 7:00 pm

Continuing our Primo Maggio celebrations with the 2019 Global Labor Film Festival, film historian Rick Winston will present “The Organizer” staring Marcello Mastroianni as a labor activist involved in a turn-of-the-twentieth-century textile factory strike in Turin, Italy.

Admission is FREE and open to the public. Light refreshments available.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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"

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