Bread & Roses Heritage Festival

THE BREAD & ROSES FESTIVAL

For over 28 consecutive years, the Bread & Roses Heritage Committee has celebrated Lawrence's ethnic diversity and labor history by organizing an annual Festival on Labor Day in honor of the most significant event in Lawrence history: the 1912 Bread and Roses Strike. We memorialize the event with a variety of music and dance, poetry and drama, ethnic food, historical demonstrations, and walking and trolley tours, all on or starting from Lawrence's Common. We also host organizations continuing the struggle for social justice today. Bread and Roses is the only broadly multicultural festival in Lawrence, the Immigrant City. And it is the only Festival in the region which celebrates the true spirit of Labor Day, in the most appropriate location, the site of the Bread and Roses Strike. The Bread and Roses Heritage Committee, Inc., a non-profit, all-volunteer organization welcomes involvement by anyone interested in celebrating Lawrence's special labor heritage.