June 18 & 19, 2010: The 25th Anniversary Miners Memorial Weekend
“Songs of the Workers”

Friday June 18th at Cumberland Cultural Centre (OAP) 2673 Dunsmuir - 7pm-11pm. Admission by donation. Offers a pub style evening of camaraderie and music with a variety of local and visiting performers. From Welsh Coal Mining Songs to Punk Rock covers and from traditional Labour Tunes to Maritime drinking songs - the evening is a celebration of workers tunes old and new.

Saturday June 19

8am-11am BCGEU Pancake Breakfast - Cumberland Cultural Centre 2673 Dunsmuir Ave

12pm Walking Group to follow the steps of Ginger's Funeral March to Cumberland Cemetery (leaves Cumberland Museum at Dunsmuir & First)

1pm Graveside Vigil at the Cumberland Cemetery (turn north on Minto Rd from the Comox Valley Parkway)- musical guests, speakers.

3pm Cumberland Mine sites Walking Tour with local historian Gwynn Sproule - leaves from Cumberland Museum

6pm-9pm Miners Memorial Day Dinner , $15 at the Cumberland Cultural Centre - speakers, music, theatre vignettes, prizes and a silent auction to raise funds for the Cumberland’s “little museum’.

Call 250 336-2445 or email infocumberlandmuseum.ca to register and order a wreath, reserve dinner tickets or for more info.

With generous support from the Courtenay, Campbell River and District Labour Council, Cumberland OAP, local musicians and artists, bakers, butchers and florists - Miners Memorial Day welcomes young and old, union members, students, activists, artists, parents and workers of all types with open arms for an important acknowledgment of the blood sweat and tears of brothers and sisters from across time and around the world.