{"id":2092,"date":"2010-09-26T12:38:43","date_gmt":"2010-09-26T18:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/?p=2092"},"modified":"2010-09-26T12:38:43","modified_gmt":"2010-09-26T18:38:43","slug":"bread-and-roses-strike-recalled-by-storyteller-angela-lloyd-at-sheets-center-for-the-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/2010\/09\/26\/bread-and-roses-strike-recalled-by-storyteller-angela-lloyd-at-sheets-center-for-the-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Bread and Roses Strike recalled by storyteller Angela Lloyd at Sheets Center for the Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Millard Sheets Center for the Arts at Fairplex has become a storytellers central of sorts as each shares tales behind the exhibit The Industrial Age to the Computer Age \u2026Three Centuries of Artistic Innovations<\/span><\/em>.<\/a>
\nNot only does the show trace how the Industrial Revolution affected society, storytellers present first-person accounts of how men, women, children and families were touched by innovations.
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Storyteller Angela Lloyd<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nOne of those stories is about the Bread and Roses Strike in 1912 at a textile mill in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Storyteller Angela Lloyd<\/span><\/a> recounts the events that took place almost 100 years ago at 12:45, 1:45, 3:30 and 4:30 p.m. today.
\n\u201cWhen Jim Cogan sent the topic of the show to me, I learned that part of the exhibit includes several weaving looms. When I saw the looms, I knew I wanted to tell this story,\u201d Lloyd recalled. \u201cI had developed a story about it for a women\u2019s history conference several years ago.\u201d
\nThe term \u201cBread and Roses\u201d came from a poem by James Oppenheimer, a witness to the strike, who saw the woman carrying a sign saying \u201cWe want bread, and roses, too!\u201d
\nIn her performance, Lloyd sings a version of the song inspired by Oppenheimer\u2019s lyrics that sister singers Mimi Fari\u00f1a and Joan Baez popularized that tells about the strike.
\n\u201cThe women wanted to reduce their work hours per week from 56 to 54,\u201d Lloyd said. \u201cThat was accomplished; when the mill owners decided to cut their pay by 30 cents a week, they had had enough, already going hungry before the pay cut.
\n\u201cThe owners of the mills never thought they would have a successful walk-out because of the many languages the workers spoke. But the IWW sent in men and women who spoke two or three languages and they worked to connect the dots,\u201d she continued. \u201cThe workers were on strike for 10 weeks, and they won.\u201d
\nLloyd, a Victorville resident, brings more than 23 years of storytelling experience to Sheets, and has been called \u201ca combination of Maria Von Trapp, Mary Poppins, and Tinkerbell.\u201d She possesses a vast repertoire of story, song, poetry and chant, and enjoys teaching and sharing music and stories to grownups and children in classrooms and performances.
\nFrom 1999-2007 she was the storyteller in residence at the Walden School in Pasadena, and is now resident storyteller at Children\u2019s Community School in Van Nuys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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