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These scratchboard drawings, produced by Jos Sances for the 2022 documentary video We Mean to Make Things Over, explore how May Day became a workers’ holiday the world over, except in the USA—despite the fact that the tragic events inspiring the holiday occurred here.
The immigrant rights-themed exhibit will open on Tuesday April 30 at 4 pm in the Rosenberg Library, fourth floor at the Ocean campus of City College of San Francisco. Artist Jos Sances and filmmaker Fred Glass will be present in person and make brief presentations. Light refreshments will be served. At a time when celebrating May Day is making a comeback and the American labor movement is having a renaissance, We Mean to Make Things Over is extremely timely.
Along with Sances’s work, the exhibit will feature historical May Day ephemera on loan from the San Francisco State University Labor Archives and Research Center, and continuous screenings of We Mean to Make Things Over. The video utilizes animation by L.A.-based animator Paul Zappia. It is edited by award-winning PBS filmmaker Rick Tejada-Flores, with vocal contributions by Sophie Becker, Elise Bryant and the Rocking Solidarity Labor Chorus, and musical score by New York sound artist Sokio. The exhibit and film provide an educational and entertaining tour of a long-suppressed story from American working-class history.
SPEAKERS: Jos Sances, artist, and Fred Glass, filmmaker, and others TBD