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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (F. AuYeung)
Mon Apr 24 05:53:30 2000
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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 05:53:22 -0400
From: "F. AuYeung" <auyeung@MIT.EDU>
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From: Kathleen Gillespie <gilleska@hotmail.com>
Subject: [act-ma] "Prisons in America" events at Harvard
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 15:47:34 -0700
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ACT-MA Peace Events in Massachusetts
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Please direct any questions about this series of events to either Alex
Guerrero (guerrero@fas.harvard.edu) or Justin Steil (steil@fas.harvard.edu).
Thanks.
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"Prisons in America"
April 17th - 26th at Harvard University
sponsored by the Harvard University Prisoner Education Program
(all events free and open to the public)
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4-24: Prisons in Massachusetts: Oversight, Parole, Voting, Health Care
4-25: Prison Art in America
4-26: Women in Prison
5-13: "No More Prisons" Benefit Concert
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Monday, April 24th
*Prisons in Massachusetts*
A discussion panel with MA State Representative Kay Khan
and Stephen Saloom from the Criminal Justice Policy Coalition
6-7:30pm, Sever Hall Room 113
Representative Khan and Mr. Saloom will be speaking about a range of
issues, including the need for corrections oversight, the importance of
and current obstacles to reintegration, the decline of parole, the current
battle over the right to vote, and the state of mental and general health
care in prisons. Both individuals are very active in the struggle for
prison reform and for more intelligent approaches to dealing with crime.
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Tuesday, April 25th
*Art Behind Bars*
Phylis Kornfeld, author of Cellblock Visions: Prison Art in America, will
present a slide show and speak about her experience conducting visual art
programs with prison inmates.
6-7:30pm, Emerson Hall Room 105
Phyllis Kornfeld is the author of Cellblock Visions: Prison Art in America
(Princeton University Press). She has been an artist and a teacher for
many years working with special populations in non-traditional settings.
In 1983 she began conducting visual art programs with prison inmates and
continues today in four correctional institutions. She writes and lectures
on prison art and curates exhibitions of the work.
Her presentation is a slide talk about the art of prisoners, a surprising
collection of images and art forms that reveal this unseen culture and the
faces of its inhabitants. She shows a wide range of art born in the
penitentiary: popular prison art, prison 'folk' arts, and inventive
paintings and drawings by artists whose work is gaining recognition in the
arena of outsider, or self-taught art. She speaks from personal
experience with the artists, their processes, and the context in which the
work was created. Kornfeld quotes men and women in institutions from
county jail to death row. They are candid and insightful about their
lives, their art, and their imprisonment. The art is a powerful weapon
against the escalating efforts to dehumanize prisoners.
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April 26th
*Women in Prison*
A discussion panel, introduced by Cornel West, featuring Tracey Williams
and Tina Williams, former inmates at MCI-Framingham.
6-7:30 pm, Emerson Hall 105
Tracey Williams and Tina Williams will speak about their experiences as
women in prison in Massachusetts. They will also discuss the difficulties
mothers face in prison, separated from their children and the many
challenges facing women prisoners upon their release.
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Saturday, May 13th
*No More Prisons: the Show*
A benefit concert put on by Raptivism Records, featuring ***dead prez***,
L Da Headtoucha, Virtuoso, & more.
At the Freedom House, 14 Crawford St., Dorchester, MA Take bus #23 or #28
to Grove Hall. Doors open at 8pm, tickets at door: $5
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Please direct any questions, comments, or concerns to either Alex Guerrero
(guerrero@fas.harvard.edu) or Justin Steil (steil@fas.harvard.edu).
We can provide directions upon request.
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