The Great Labor Arts Exchange is an annual arts festival which celebrates the labor history of the United States and preserves, advances and promotes the culture of the American labor movement.

GREAT LABOR ARTS EXCHANGE (GLAE): MARK YOUR CALENDAR & SAVE THE DATES!
2027 GLAE: June 18-20 in Silver Spring, MD at the Silver Spring Civic Building. We expect registration to open in the fall of 2027. Special feature this year: Choral Convergence of labor choruses from across the country!

2028 GLAE at Labor Notes: March 24-26, 2028; New venue: Hyatt Regency McCormick Place, (Downtown) Chicago, Illinois. We expect registration to open in the fall of 2027.
2026 GLAE Videos

Labor arts are “part of how we come together, how we find our unity, how we remind ourselves of our values, how we sustain ourselves through the hard times.”

– Al Bradbury, Labor Notes editor

Labor arts, including music…poetry…film/video…theater…art…history…spoken word…and more!

Find it all at the Great Labor Arts Exchange.

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