SPQ Alumni Barrie Cline (’14) and the Workers Art Coalition (WAC) traveled to the International Federation of Workers’ Education Associations 22nd General Conference: Solidarity or Precarity? The Role of Workers Education in building the 21st Century global labor movement.

They recieved a grant the Van Arsdale Center and presentated on WAC projects to date proposing collaboration workers public art project in concert with the International Labor Organizations centennial in 2019.  Plumbers built a preliminary pvc structure which Jaime Lopez customized and lit up for the purposes of framing a street theatre project that Namrata Bali of the Self Employed Women’s Association in India, collaboratively created with conference participants from all over the world. Stay tuned for updates on future collaborations.

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