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2025 Great Labor Arts Exchange
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Location
Silver Spring Civic Building
719 Ellsworth Dr
Silver Spring, MD 20910
USA
Registration Info
Registration is required
Payment In Full In Advance Only
Registration cancellations will be accepted until Monday, June 16, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Accommodations: see below for details on hotels and local housing.
Come join other like-minded activists at the Great Labor Arts Exchange! Amazing workshops, music, song sharing and contest!
Song & Poetry Contest Categories
$200 prize in each category – pick yours and enter!
- The “Bread and Roses” Best Labor/Social Justice Poem
For poems that speak to peace, justice, and union solidarity.
- The Talkin’ Union / Hip-Hop Piece
An original hip-hop performance addressing labor and justice.
- The Jon Fromer “String-Buster” Ballad
Bring the passion with a powerful original ballad.
- The Joe Glazer Best Union Song
Celebrate solidarity and labor history in song.
- The Julie McCall Best Parody
A sharp, funny, repurposed song with a political punch.
Enter Contest
ACCOMODATIONS
Hotels
Courtyard By Marriott, 8506 Fenton St, Silver Spring (0.2 mi), 301-589-4899.
Travelodge By Wyndham 8040 13th St, Silver Spring (1.2 mi), 301-244-8907. Note that while this is the least expensive, it may not meet your personal standards.
Doubletree By Hilton, 8777 Georgia Ave, Silver Spring (0.5 mi), 301-589-0800.
Holiday Inn Express, 7990 Georgia Ave, Silver Spring (1.1 mi), 301-565-3444.
Local housing: If you would like to stay with a local host -- or are a local person interested in hosting a visiting GLAE attendee -- please contact Hetty Scofield at either maryfran1913@gmail.com or 301-233-2174.
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