Upcoming Performances

Bolshevik Cafe
"The Last One"
November 6th 6:30
Finn Hall
10th Street, Berkeley

Semester Concert
December 9th or 16th 7:00
City College Of San Francisco Room 133

Past Performances

Unity Day at City College of San Francisco
Wednesday, October 20th 1:00
Wellness Center, Room 207

Benefeit for Modern Times Bookstore
Sunday, October 3rd 6:00pm
Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia Street at 20th
San Francisco, California 94110

Senior Action Network: Twenty Years of ACTION for Social Justice
Seniors & Youth Saving Social Security
Thursday, October 14th, Noon-1:00
Unitarian Universalist Church
1187 Franklin Street at O'Farrell
San Francisco, California 94109

• LaborFest 2010 - ILWU Hall, July 24th
• Mercury Cafe, Denver, Colorado, May 2nd 2010
• Harlequin Theatre, Lafayette, Colorado, May 1st 2010
• Lafayette Cemetary, Lafayette, Colorado, May 1st 2010
• Boulder Mall, Boulder, Colorado, May 1st 2010
• Lafayette Library, Lafayette, Colorado, April 30th 2010
• Western Workers' Labor Heritage Festival. January 16, 2010, 10am-Noon. Machinists Hall. 1511 Rollins Road, Burlingame
• Oaks Arrestees Benefit Concert: January 26, 2008, at Redwood Gardens in Berkeley, CA. Organized by the Oaks Arrestees Defense Committee to benefit the legal expenses of those arrested for bring food and water to the oak grove tree sitters.
• Western Workers Labor Heritage Festival: January 18th-20th, 2008, at SEIU Local 1021 building in San Francisco. An annual festival to honor Dr. Martin Luther King and a weekend of solidarity in an era of war, racism, and hard times. The chorus performed an immigration narrative with songs that includes immigration stories written by members of the chorus about their family histories.
• Educating for Justice: Teaching for Labor and Community Power Conference: November 16th-17th, 2007, at City College in San Francisco. The conference brought together labor and worker's rights educators, community organizers, and student activists. The Southwest Labor Studies Association gave the chorus their Distinguished Service Award for boosting the morale of fighters for justice. We also received the Elaine and Karl Yoneda Memorial Award in cooperation with the Southwest Labor Studies Association. They presented us with its annual award and a check for $200.00.
• Highlander Research and Education Center 75th Anniversary: Labor Day Weekend (2007) in Tennesse near Knoxville. Since 1932, Highlander has gathered workers, grassroots leaders, community organizers, educators, and researchers to address the most pressing social, environmental and economic problems facing the people of the South. Highlander sponsors educational programs and research into community problems, as well as a residential Workshop Center for social change organizations and workers active in the South and internationally. Generations of activists have come to Highlander to learn, teach, and prepare to participate in struggles for justice. The Labor Chorus and Vukani Mawethu were honored to be invited to perform our historical narrative with songs about Highlander's fight for social justice.

Updated 1/28/08