The Justice-In-Education Initiative at Columbia University invites you to:
Art as a Practice of Freedom
Mia Ruyter and Kristina Binova in Conversation with Shedrick Blackwell and Amaury Bonilla
“As artists, educators, activists, and scholars, we ask ourselves, what is the best way to share quality arts programming with system-impacted community members? How can we participate in the struggle for prison abolition? This workshop involves art creation, reflection, and a discussion on practice. Although our work is fun and joyful and results in positive human connections, first and foremost, our priority is creating a space to deliver programming that heals, educates, and liberates. The friendship, joy, and community that sometimes happen during our programs are part of creating a liberatory space because education and healing are necessary to free them and all of us from the systems in society that lead to the dystopia of mass incarceration.”