Soliloquy for a Seamstress, The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
In conjunction with the exhibition Art/Memory/Place
Saturday, March 19, in three locations
Raindate: Sunday, March 20
11:30 am: East Harlem/El Barrio, 118 East 119 Street (25th Police Precinct)
1:00 pm: Brown Building, NYU, corner Washington Place and Greene Street
2:30 pm: Collect Pond Park (site of the Criminal Court) corner Lafayette and Franklin Streets
In this all-day street performance, artist LuLu LoLo will present scenes from the Triangle fire and its aftermath, playing shirtwaist workers Sarafina and Teresina Saracino, who died in the fire, and eyewitness reporter William Gunn Shepherd.