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Prison Narratives: Changing the Story
April 10, 2014 @ 12:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Please join the African and African American Studies Department, Urban Male Initiative, Women’s Studies Program and City and Humanities Program for an exciting line-up of events changing the conversation about mass incarceration.
12:30: Poetry Slam via Skype from inside Ohio’s Marion Correctional Institution. Q&A to follow between audience members and performers as well as organizers of the first TEDx event held inside a prison. Studio Theatre, Music Building.
2:00: Screening of Zero Percent. Followed by Q&A with Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison Executive Director Sean Pica. Studio Theatre, Music Building. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfDFf-3laug
4:00: Reentry Panel with Hudson Link alumni, Lehman alumna and Rikers social worker Starlene Patterson, and Sing Sing Corp’s Kevin Cleare. Lovinger Theatre, Music Building
6:00: Spoken Word Performance by 3x Apollo Award Winner, Messiah. http://www.allmessiah.com/ Lovinger Theatre, Music Building
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