Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/community/page/52/)
The musical adaptation of Studs Terkel?s legendary book, performed by the Lex-Ham Community Theater, is surprisingly and subtlety effective in telling the stories of people telling, in their own words, what they do for a living and why they do it.
The new documentary WELLSTONE! will have its Iron Range premiere this Friday and Saturday at the Tacora Theater in Aurora.
“Working,” a musical adaptation of the ground-breaking book by Studs Terkel, will run Nov. 12-27 at the Landmark Center in downtown St. Paul.
In honor of the first anniversary of the 2003 strike at the University of Minnesota, local unions are sponsoring a showing of “Voices on the Line,” a documentary about the strike. The free showing will be Thursday, Nov. 4, at noon in Room 655 of the Gateway Building, at the intersection of Oak and Washington on the Minneapolis campus.
More than 300 low-income senior and disabled homeowners in the Twin Cities, Mankato and St. Cloud area communities received free furnace inspections, repairs, and smoke alarms, thanks to two local unions and their union contractors.
For the second year, the death of U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone will be commemorated with a weekend of music. Artists of all stripes will take part in Wellstone World Music Weekend.
Neighborhood House, which held formal ground?breaking ceremonies Sept. 26 for the new Paul and Sheila Wellstone Center for Community Building, is holding one-hour ?house warming? sessions to explain the agency?s work and how the Wellstone Center will expand its ability to serve the community.
?WELLSTONE!,? a documentary about the lives of the late U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone and his wife, Sheila, premieres Oct. 14 and will be screened in several Minnesota cities. Filmmakers are also hopeful the program will air on national public television and at prestigious film festivals. Read Michael Kuchta’s review of the film.
St. Cloud State University will exhibit the works of labor muralist Mike Alewitz in an exhibit titled Insurgent Images ? Agitprop starting Sept. 30 and running through Oct. 29.
Every year, writers
hungry to see their work in print suffer pitfalls like reduced royalties or signing away rights
because they don’t understand their book contracts. The Twin Cities chapter of the National Writers Union will offer a half-day conference: “NEGOTIATE
LIKE A PRO: What every author should know about book contracts” on Saturday, Oct. 23.