Imagine Freedom: Making Abolition Irresistible
Sep 22, 2020 16:00 - 17:30
(GMT -8:00) Pacific Time
Making Abolition Irresistible, a webinar on Abolitionist Organizing and Arts Praxis, featuring:
-Ashley Hunt, http://correctionsproject.com/wordpress/
-Fernando Marti, Justseeds: https://justseeds.org/artist/fernandomarti/
-gloria galvez, https://gloria-galvez.com/
-kai lumumba barrow, Gallery of the Streets: http://galleryofthestreets.org/
-Kate Deciccio, https://kdeciccio.wixsite.com/k8decicc
-Melanie Cervantes, Dignidad Rebelde: https://dignidadrebelde.com/
Come hear from artists discuss their abolitionist art practice! Working together to create images that envision freedom is an abolitionist practice, and we find that art that depicts freedom has the potential to be abolitionist and advance abolitionist creativity.
When oppression or state violence is the topic, without resistance and people’s bravery and brilliance on the stage, we inadvertently re-center violence and the prison industrial complex (PIC) as normal, as permanent, as legitimate. Yet when we make images of freedom the subject of our work, then we are practicing the radical imagination that abolition needs.
We are building and guiding the way to the abolitionist future and liberation with art that depicts free and powerful human beings. This has been a major contribution that CR has made in the last two decades to the anti-prison movement, and we invite you to join us for a discussion on how Art and Abolition intertwine in this way.
This discussion will feature an array of powerful cultural organizers who are helping us envision the world we want to live in and what we need to build to get there.