Program

Soldaderas of the Mexican Revolution, Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, 1911. Walter H. Horne, Library of Congress

12:00 – 1:00

Lunch / Welcome

Sofia Rosa Tobia Gage sings Cu ti lu dissi by Rosa Balistreri 

Jennifer Guglielmo – Why ground in the history of women’s radical dreams? 

1:00 – 2:30

Magdalena Gómez performs Luisa Capetillo: A Beautiful Anarchy

Embodiment / connecting practice with Catherine Anraku Hondorp 

Gabriella Ciancimino offers a performance art piece dedicated to Leda Rafanelli

2:30 – 3:30

Embodiment practice 

Monica Lopez Orozco performs the writing of Sara Estela Ramírez

Sofia Rosa Tobia Gage sings

Mark Guglielmo shares his series Portraits of My People

Coffee/tea + refreshments 

3:30 – 4:30

Embodiment practice

Monica Lopez Orozco performs the writing of Maria Roda

Gabriella Ciancimino, Mark Guglielmo, and Jennifer Guglielmo share the early stages of our collaboration, experimenting with ways that art can bring the writing of southern Italian immigrant anarchist women from the early 20th Century NY/NJ to life + discussion

4:30 – 5:30

Monica Lopez Orozco performs the writing of Lucy Parsons

Samantha Maria Blancato from Terracotta Farmacia discusses her paintings and offers a workshop on Southern Italian plant medicine

Closing embodiment practice

Artwork by Samantha Maria Blancato, Gabriella Ciancimino, and Mark Guglielmo will be on display

Lucy Parsons (b. Waco, Texas; c. 1853-1942), anarchist labor organizer, writer & orator
Luisa Capetillo (b. Arecibo, Puerto Rico; 1879-1922),
anarchist-feminist labor organizer, writer, and orator
Leda Rafanelli (b. Pistoia, Italy; 1880-1971),
anarchist writer and publisher. She became a fortune teller to escape fascist censorship.
Maria Roda (b. Como, Italy, 1877-1958), Pedro Esteve, and their eight children, ca. 1916. Anarchist writers, publishers, and organizers. Personal archive of Federico Arcos
An article in Regeneración, July 7, 1901, announcing the publication of a periodical edited by Sara Estela Ramírez (b. Villa de Progreso, Coahuila, Mexico; 1881-1910)
May Day Parade, New York City, 1910. Bain Collection, Library of Congress
May Day Picnic, Haledon, NJ, 1915. American Labor Museum, Botto House National Landmark
Italian and Jewish garment workers at a May Day Parade in New York City, 1916, with over 40,000 participants. Corbis
Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera lead a May Day march in Mexico City, 1929. Photo by Tina Modotti
Anti-fascist rally on May Day down Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, ca. 1930
Fort Velona Papers, Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota
Union organizer Edith Ransom of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union marches in the 1937 May Day Parade in NYC. Kheel Center, Cornell University
May Day Parade, New York City, 1938. New York State Archives