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Now Accepting New Play Submissions for
SOCIAL JUSTICE SHORTS 2025

Bread and Roses Missouri amplifies and elevates the stories of working people through art, performance, and activism. We believe that cultural and creative expression are a means to effect deep and lasting social change.

As the labor hymn for which the organization is named reminds us, “Hearts starve as well as bodies…give us bread and give us roses.”

At Bread and Roses Missouri, we organize and produce arts and humanities events, exhibits, and workshops for and about workers and their families. Bread and Roses Missouri believes that cultural and creative expression are a means to effect deep and lasting social change. We strive to empower participants and educate audiences. Through the arts, we envision a world that achieves an economic base benefitting the entire community.

 

We hope you will join us.

Support our work that supports workers!

MAJOR FUNDERS & SUPPORTERS

TESTIMONIALS

Monica Bohlen

Actor & Teaching Artist

"The Workers’ Opera is like therapy for me. It gives me the balance I need to be able to use my creative gift and connect with social issues in my community."

Donate

At Bread and Roses Missouri we rely on our donors, funders and sponsors to support the events, workshops, exhibits and performances that give voice to the struggles of working class people. Fair compensation for labor is a core value and we are proud that we pay every teaching artist, creative and performer that works with us.  Art IS labor, and it is work that deserves fair compensation. 

 

We invite you to join us in creating arts and humanities experiences that make a tangible difference in the lives of working families.

To donate by check:

Bread and Roses Missouri
5585 Pershing Avenue
#170A
St. Louis, MO 63112

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To offer an in-kind gift or find out how to sponsor an upcoming Bread and Roses MO event, contact us at director@breadandrosesmo.org

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