MayDay Community Meetings

  • Tree of LifeTuesday, February 9
  • Tuesday, March 16
  • 7pm-9pm
  • No reservation necessary

Open MayDay community meetings will be held to brainstorm about the theme for the 2010 Mayday Parade and Festival.

The meetings are free and everyone is welcome to attend one or both. The community meetings are crucial to the creation of the MayDay Parade and Festival, as the ideas generated by community members in these meetings set the theme and inspiration for the parade and festival every year.

No reservation needed, but please come ready to share ideas and discuss recent issues as well as concerns and hopes for the future.

Open community workshops will run throughout April on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.

The 2010 MayDay Parade and Festival will be held on Sunday, May 2.

35th Anniversary of MayDay - May 3, 2009

Our Common Treasury - Dig It

MayDay Poster 2009HOBT’s MayDay Parade, Ceremony, and Festival has always been rooted in two important traditional celebrations—the celebration of the Green Root of Earth’s green energy rising in Spring, and the Red Root of human work energy rising from mind, heart and hand.

Mayday Photo Links

Our MayDay 2009 theme celebrated the merging of the red and green energies of the world. We celebrated the great merging of the human social justice movements with the environmental movements to remember humans as responsible relatives of the earth.

As we experience the failure of our economic systems built on debt, consumer waste, the theft and sickening of earth resources, we gathered to rebuild an economic system that protects and sustains our Earth as a “Common Treasury for All.”
Girl with Dragon at the MayDay ParadeHorseman Puppet at the MayDay PArade
Photos by Danny Diamond
Tree of Life and Egg at the MayDay Ceremony The Sun Arrives Tree of Life at the 2009 MayDay Ceremony in Powderhorn Park, Minneapolis
Photos by Mark Wojahn