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LABOUR ARTS FESTIVAL
2007
(in conjunction with "Building Bridges")
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Windsor Labour Arts Festival and Labour Studies Conference

The organizing committee of the 9th Windsor Labour Arts Festival has to hold the 2007 Festival in the first week of February, 2007 in conjunction with the conference “Building Bridges” sponsored by the Labour Studies Program of the University of Windsor.

In the face of globalization and other major challenges to labour and social justice, the Labour Studies conference will explore various issues currently dividing and uniting labour and social movements, and discuss current and potential strategies for improving national and international labour and social movement unity. The conference will bring together labour researchers, artists, and union and social movement leaders to examine both the sources of division and the potential for solidarity.

Wednesday, January 31, 7:00 pm Free Film Night

Thursday February 1
7:30 – 11:30 pmArtcite Art Show and Festival Reception

Friday, February 2
8:30 – 9:30 amConference Registration
9:30 – 11:30 amBridging Unions and Workers across Sectors in Canada
11:30 – 1:00 pmLunch and Labour Art Display
1:00 – 3:00 pmBridging Unions and Workers across National Borders
3:30 – 5:30 pmBridging through Art and Culture
7:00 – 10:00 pmDinner Theatre

Saturday, February 3
9:30 – 11:30 amBridging Unions, Workers and Social Movements
11:30 – 1:00 pmLunch and Labour Film Shorts
Meeting for Labour Studies Students
1:30 – 3:30 pmBridging Unions and Academics
4:00 – 6:00 pmLabour Film
7:30 – 11:30 pmLabour Music, Dance and Poetry Night

Each panel discussion will have four to five speakers (15-20 minutes per speaker) with a cross section of researchers and union leaders in most sessions, and social activists and artists in the Social Movement and Art sessions.