Communiversity - Starts Saturday, March 21
Communiversity is an initiative of the Chicago Freedom School, which provides learning opportunities for youth and adults interested in social justice issues and activism. Communiversity creates intergenerational spaces for political education and movement-building rooted in the study of social history. The Chicago Freedom School believes that by bringing youth and adults together to explore and analyze relevant issues in a historical context, we will help build healthy relationships, informed campaigns and effective movements. The Chicago Freedom School provides a space where young people and adult allies can exchange ideas, build new coalitions, study the work of past movements and deepen their understanding of current social problems. We support new generations of critical and independent thinking young people who use their unique experiences and power to create a just world.
AT THE CENTER FOR NEW POSSIBILITIES
Topic
Resistance through the Arts Then and Now: Moments of Change in the U.S. Prison System
Time
Saturdays, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Dates
March 21 – May 9
Place
Center for New Possibilities, 1505 W. Morse Rd.
Fee
8 sessions, $25 for 21 and over, free for under 21
Course Description
Join us as we look at moments of change in the U.S. prison system in order to understand its present realities. In order to explore the role of the arts in social movement building, will examine films, music, writing, and visual art that influenced past resistance, reform and anti-prison movements. Each class session will include art creation about the prison system, telling our stories and voicing our views to our communities.
Facilitators
Forming a partnership through the Neighborhood Writing Alliance, Donna Kiser and Erin Moore are teaching artists who aim to weave community voices into broader cultural narratives in order to more fully tell, and help others to tell, society's stories.
In partnership with Insight Arts!
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