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ERIE LABOR TEMPLE

ART WORKS HERE.

Erie Labor Temple is a working cultural building in downtown Erie—studios, workshops, and public programs built for consistency, access, and community value.

1701 State Street • Erie, PA • Events • Workshops • Studios

Coverage, notices, and public record from Erie Labor Temple.

THE PRESS ROOM

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This Month at ELT

Pick a night. Bring a friend. The signal changes fast.

Lecture Brawl: Ethical Use of A.I.

May 28, 2026 at 11:00:00 PM

A sharp, moderated brawl over authorship, labor, and value—object evidence required.

Listening Room

May 29, 2026 at 11:00:00 PM

Listening Room at Erie Labor Temple is a shared, immersive audio experience. Each session features a full album or curated sound program played in its entirety.

Reading Room

May 31, 2026 at 5:00:00 PM

A quiet place to read, think, and exist.

Writer’s Night

June 2, 2026 at 4:00:00 PM

A quiet room. A blank page. No pressure to perform.

Sketch Model Open Studio

June 3, 2026 at 12:00:00 AM

A bi-weekly figure drawing night with a professional model: timed gestures, longer poses, and a respectful, studio-grade environment.

Slow Make Night

June 3, 2026 at 10:00:00 PM

Slow Make Night is a hands-on creative session built around simple, tactile materials and processes.

The Temple Stack

Recurring formats—screenings, labs, workshops, and public nights—built to return stronger each run.

Soft Social Sessions

No networking, no performance, just shared space to think, create, and connect at your own pace.

Soft Socials at Erie Labor Temple are low-pressure weekly gatherings for reading, writing, making, and listening

Awards Viewing

Awards nights, rebuilt as salons.

Big culture nights—award shows, reveals, and watch parties—treated like a live room. Come for the broadcast. Stay for the crowd.

Black Box Nights

Headphone salon + projection. Signal drift encouraged.

A listening-first night: projections, headphone mixes, media-art experiments, and the static between meanings. Minimal talk. Maximum atmosphere.

Lecture Brawl

Fight night for ideas.

Two sides. One topic. No panel drift. Short rounds, hard arguments, and a room that votes with its nervous system.

Midnight Manuscripts

One-night publishing house.

A late-night drop of readings, micro-publications, and strange printed artifacts. The building becomes a press for a few hours.

Ritual Cinema

Live Foley + live re-score.

A film night where sound is rebuilt in public: live score, live Foley, and a rotating upstairs lab you can tour during intermission.

A Building With Jobs To Do

MAKE

Studios. Workshops. Apprenticeship energy. Real practice.

SHOW

Screenings, exhibitions, and nights worth leaving the house for.

GATHER

Conversation, community, and civic-scale creative momentum.

Inside the Building

Working tenants, real practices, open doors.

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The public front room of Erie Labor Temple, Commonwealth Reading Room is a curated bookstore and art shop built for discovery, conversation, and cultural traffic.

Commonwealth Reading Room
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BOOKFORGE is Erie Labor Temple’s working bindery, where books are restored, repaired, and built by hand with grit, precision, and reverence for the craft.

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PH'KAKi Creative Works is a high-voltage creative studio producing design, media, strategy, and cultural work with sharp thinking and a hard edge.

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Sharon Smith Metal Arts is a studio of finely wrought jewelry and metalwork where material, skill, and artistic discipline meet.

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Brøður is a men’s grooming and lifestyle brand grounded in clean utility, daily ritual, and goods made to earn their place.

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UNION Fine Art Gallery is Erie Labor Temple’s exhibition engine, presenting ambitious contemporary art, installations, and programs that keep culture in motion.

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