First Strike Festival

THINGS TO DO:

 Tours and Talks

• Tour Slater Mill with a ranger (10:30 AM, 12:30 PM, or 2:30 PM)
• Drop by for a Labor History talk (offered on the hour from 1 PM on through 5 PM)
• Learn the history of the Jencks Settlement and take a walking tour of Pawtucket with Old Slater Mill Association (1:30 PM, leaves from the front of Old Slater Mill)

Music and Dancing

• Get moving and learn something new with Circus Dynamics & Metamorphosis Dance Co. (1 PM- 6 PM)
• Groove with local musicians J. Michael Graham, The Berger Boys, Jay Brunelle, and Mark Cutler (performances hourly, 1 PM – 6 PM)
• Write a song with Mark Cutler (12:45 PM - 1:45 PM)
• Dance around a maypole with the Mystic Garland Dancers (3:00 PM)

Additional Demonstrations and Activities

• Make art with local cartoonist MJ Robinson (1-3PM)
• Meet "RI Lego Artist" Andrew Grover 2:30 PM
• Learn how objects from the past can teach us about our world today with Everyday Anthropology and Public Archaeology Lab
• Get your face painted (1 PM - 5 PM)
• Meet Blackstone Valley Plein Air painters
• Have your soil samples tested for free and chat with the Rhode Island Master Gardeners
• Watch a Plein Air Painting demonstration with Jerry Aissis (1:30 PM)
• Meet the Rhode Island Spinning Guild and watch them work

Check out the Park's new video about the First Strike by visiting here: The First Strike - YouTube