Are you a worker, a scab, or a passerby? Oakland 1946! is seeking participants!
We need YOU -- actors, citizens, performers, musicians, activists, regular folks -- to take to the streets as part of a site-specific performance project about the 1946 Oakland General Strike. If you can hold a picket sign, carry a tune, dance in the streets, project your voice, or just want to be involved, we want you!
Here's what you need to do:
Show up to our general participant meeting. Ask questions. Make some picket signs, cardboard masks, props, and talk with us about the project. Drink beer. Be craftsy. Help us re-establish a connection between the labor movements of the past and current-day worker and community struggles. Please RSVP to Oakland1946@gmail.com.
First participant meeting:
Saturday, November 8, 11am - 1pm
The Green House
1630-A Woolsey Street
Berkeley, CA 94703
just a block or two from the Ashby BART station
Dress rehearsal:
Date TBA, week of 12/1/08, in the evening in downtown Oakland
Performances:
Friday, December 5, 8pm
Sunday, December 7, 2pm
Latham Square, where Telegraph meets Broadway in downtown Oakland (near 15th Street), and where it all happened more than 62 years ago....
Questions? Write to Oakland1946@gmail.com.
October 21, 2008
OAKLAND 1946
What if you refused to go to work tomorrow— and thousands other people did, too? What would it look like if people danced in the streets downtown instead of sat inside office buildings?
The last time this happened in the US was in Oakland in 1946, when more than 100,000 citizens shut down the bustling post-war city for days. Beginning on a normal weekday morning downtown in early December, the Work Holiday of 1946, as it was called at the time, was a public show of solidarity with striking department-store workers that rapidly evolved into a remarkable experience of community activism. Throughout Oakland, residents talked and marched with neighbors and strangers, enjoyed free food, danced to jukebox tunes in the streets, and came together as working people to demand respect during a crucial moment in U.S. history.
Experience this momentous part of local history firsthand on Friday, December 5th (8pm) and Sunday, December 7th (2pm) at Latham Square in downtown Oakland. Oakland 1946! will stage a site-specific street theater performance that engages the audience and connects with current local workers’ struggles.
Join us for a wild and fun-filled afternoon of performance, education, action, and dancing in the streets!
The last time this happened in the US was in Oakland in 1946, when more than 100,000 citizens shut down the bustling post-war city for days. Beginning on a normal weekday morning downtown in early December, the Work Holiday of 1946, as it was called at the time, was a public show of solidarity with striking department-store workers that rapidly evolved into a remarkable experience of community activism. Throughout Oakland, residents talked and marched with neighbors and strangers, enjoyed free food, danced to jukebox tunes in the streets, and came together as working people to demand respect during a crucial moment in U.S. history.
Experience this momentous part of local history firsthand on Friday, December 5th (8pm) and Sunday, December 7th (2pm) at Latham Square in downtown Oakland. Oakland 1946! will stage a site-specific street theater performance that engages the audience and connects with current local workers’ struggles.
Join us for a wild and fun-filled afternoon of performance, education, action, and dancing in the streets!
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