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Fwd: Art Beyond Bars
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mosh@MIT.EDU)
Mon Nov 6 14:31:45 2000
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>Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 13:00:09 -0500
>From: Laura Brown <solara@ccae.org>
>Subject: Art Beyond Bars
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> Art Beyond Bars
> A Creative Response to the Prison System
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>
>WHAT: Art exhibit of Drawings and Letters by PAT (an imprisoned artist)
> Exhibit Dates: Nov. 7 - Dec. 9 Opening Reception: 11/7 at 8pm
>
> Slide show and photographs by Lou Jones and Lorie Savel (co-authors)
> "Final Exposure: Portraits from Death Row"
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> Poetry by by Askia Touré (co-founder Black Arts Movement)
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> Theater Performance by Stan Edelson's Multicultural Theater Troupe
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> Presentations by Massachusetts Prison Pilgrimage Walkers
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> Discussion with Artists, Activists and Community Members
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>WHEN: Tues. November 7th (Election Night) 8-11 pm
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>WHERE: Cambridge Center for Adult Education, 56 Brattle St.
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>INFO: Soul Brown, Curator 617-547-6789 ext.210
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> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
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>On Tuesday, November 7 (Election Night), the Cambridge Center for Adult
>Education will present "Art Beyond Bars: A Creative Response to the Prison
>System" in conjunction with the Massachusetts Prison Walk. Artists,
>activists and community memberw will address injustice, incarceration and
>inhumanity through the "Action of Art" featuring:
>
>We will unveil an exhibit of art made by an artist who is currently
>imprisoned. His name is Pat and he uses art as a means to communicate with
>the outside world. Through drawings placed on letters and other articles
>that travel beyond the bars of his cell, he is able to convey his
>experiences, desires and memories to outsiders and reclaim his humanity.
>Exhibit dates: Nov. 7 through Dec. 9.
>
>There will also be a slide show and discussion about photographer Lou
>Jones' series, "Final Exposure: Photographs from Death Row". Co-author
>Lorie Savel will explain how they were able to get within the system to
>photograph face to face men and women who are sentenced to die. This
>project created a relationship between the photographer, writer and
>prisoners that last to this day. Undoubtably the process had a
>transformative effect, for Lorie moving her from a Death Row advocate to a
>prison reformer.
>
>Poet/Griot Askia Touré, a co-founder of the Black Arts Movement of the
>1960s and a friend of Mumia Abu Jamal's (also featured in Lou Jones' book)
>will read poems in response to the injustice of prison for black men. Last
>spring, Mr. Touré organized a day-long reading in response to the Amadou
>Diallo killing.
>
>Theater Director Stan Edelson's Multicultural Theater will present an
>original short work about justice or ("just us").
>
>This event is planned in conjunction with the Massachusetts Interfaith
>Prison Pilgrimage that arrives in Cambridge on that day. Members of the
>state-wide prison walk will share stories about their three-week vigil
>visiting prisons from West (Franklin County) to East (Suffolk County).
>Earlier in the day, they will visit polling places in Cambridge to raise
>awareness of questions 2 and 8 on the ballot. (Should incarcerated felons
>vote? Whether there should be an emphasis on treatment over sentencing for
>drug offenders?)
>
>We invite you to come, learn and act with us. Reception and program
>organized in collaboration with the Zeitgeist Gallery, Out of the Blue
>Gallery, Cambridge Peace Commission, Cambridge Friends Meetinghouse, and
>American Friends Service Committee.
>
>(Please pass this info along!)
>
>Laura Soul Brown
>Director of Community Outreach & Arts Program Planner
>Cambridge Center for Adult Education
>solara@ccae.org
>
>
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