turning the forty second annual two thousand and thirteen northwest folklife festival everywhere you turn there is a performer and in another of the northwest rooms is this and it is part of a labor exhibit with this year's theme of washington works for music culture history and we partnered with northwest folklife this year to bring an exhibit of work history workers history particular organized labor history to festival so this is the images art of richard corral he was an artist during the works progress administration his daughter leslie chorale generously donated his work to the labor archives at the university of washington and connor casey the labor archivist put together these images for our folks by an exhibit this year so we've put up this fifty on up through the seventy's so it's like he was pretty prolific he was and and really it's so generous of leslie chorale to donate these images  so this part of the exhibit is from beverly and i had this class at university of washington coma her students were taking a course on globalization and labor and she and she really brings out her students art work and this and really when you look at these posters you particularly see that it's their lived experience that's giving inspiration to their art and that's a lot of what folk life and has always been about not only folk life here but folk music folk art it's always been about giving expression to one to lived experience and none of these students are professional artists they all came into the class not having any design experience and then created these beautiful posters actually this well they're all very much about what's happening with the students lives right now and how their work is impacted by what's happening in their work or lack of very unusual and very little known work that people do which is farming  this is one we wanted to show in this room the diversity of work that people do and of course the work that the photographer does in captur international longshore and warehouse workers union aisles at the annual and they have put together their one of the most military and older unions in the west and they operate all along the docks from alaska down through washington oregon california hawaii and they've had quite quite a history and also have been really good at documenting that history so they put together this exhibit that they have in their keeping their union hall and they generously donated it to ask for the  if you can see the whole room this is the center of the room  interesting we noticed it has an image from richard chorale coincidentally we noticed that when we put it up today expense it has a very proud i o w has a very proud history and an internationally they're truly an international union and they support workers in australia as well for the whole community and not and we have not always in organized labor and outside of organized labor i'm not always treated asian pacific american workers if you've been around folklife they've told many stories about what happened with asian workers the chinese exclusion act japanese internment and yet they've continued to work and build washington to the asian pacific american labor alliant put together this timeline talked with and these are all contemporary contemporary workers for building still building the labor movement and are part of the asian pacific american labor alliance in  union is a division of the international longshore and warehouse union and said this so this start telling the story from nineteen twenty one to the present to the of the work that  american union workers have done in time and most of these people they're they're continuing to they're continuing to work they're continuing to organize easter and there are labor union member this has been a very opening and interesting journey as part of and learning about labor unions and if people want to learn more information i'm sure you guys have a website where you do there's i'm two web sites and one is the standard dot org and that tells it's a daily newsletter about all things that are happening around the of course i thank you for your time in talking with us and i've been noticing some labor type songs in the background the whole time just in need so we have songs from rebel voices from the seattle labor corps from labor music from my own collection really do is there a cite for it or you know there isn't although it's probably not a bad idea to put some of them up on our main works was quite a list a list of what they are ok i was heading outside i read into this woman and some viewers of public access might remember her and you are i mean sooner or later director and you're on the board i'm on the board of northwest that's like this my fourth year and what about the same well this year we have a cultural focus of washington work and washington work it's all about the labor history in the state of washington it's really on the west coast and it dates back into early the late gene that really got its power out of the post depression and treat war time and it's really kind of surprised me when i looked at the exhibit a how much buzz surrounds out of that movement but the other part of it that's really interesting is that there are there are so crass and folk music and things that come out of labor  labor washington labor like dock workers and child drivers and you know aircraft people that that come out of their craft their different kind of art even the hotel industry had a whole little demonstration in bed making today are not today but i think a couple of days to go so it's really about honoring our labor and understanding the kind of efforts that they have to continually make to be recognized and to be paid fairly and have result of the or how many vendors how many artists stages things like that are there you know it's a really amazing thing and i can't be totally accurate but overall there are about there are twenty six the venue where we stage different things not counting but people set up on sidewalks those people are called busters there's a whole art to bust in and these people know how to do it really really really well on our twenty sixth annual run almost all hours from ten o'clock in the morning so we sat down every night for dinner and we expect about six thousand performances every year six hundred volunteers to make this happen we hire about three hundred additional staff each year for the learn more about the forty third folk life occurring friday may twenty third through monday may twenty sixth two thousand and fourteen at the seattle center beginning daily at eleven am by visiting n w folk life dot org you can also find them on facebook please visit my archive page at seattle community media dot org slash node slash two six five five eight slash list shows and as always thank you for watching adventure t v cultural festivals