A Quick word about Erie Labor Temple & A.I. from ELT Founder, Edward Patrick Kranz
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
BOOKFORGE
PH'KAKi Creative Works is a high-voltage creative studio producing design, media, strategy, and cultural work with sharp thinking and a hard edge.
PH'KAKi Creative Works
Sharon Smith Metal Arts is a studio of finely wrought jewelry and metalwork where material, skill, and artistic discipline meet.
Sharon Smith Metal Arts
Brøður is a men’s grooming and lifestyle brand grounded in clean utility, daily ritual, and goods made to earn their place.
Brøður
UNION Fine Art Gallery is Erie Labor Temple’s exhibition engine, presenting ambitious contemporary art, installations, and programs that keep culture in motion.
UNION Fine Art GAllery
