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Freedom & Captivity Podcast
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A Somatic Liberation Dance Wave Experience at Indigo Arts Alliance
Freedom and Captivity Keynote: Nikole Hannah-Jones
Art& Dread Scott and Maria Gaspar: Art, Ethics, and Process
Dr. Dorothy Roberts: 2022 Schonberger Peace and Justice Lecture
Changing The Narrative: We Are More Than A Number
Reimagine Belonging: Community Care and Power in a Pandemic
Finding Freedom and Solidarity Book Project with Sonya Clark & Indigo Arts Alliance
A Reading of ‘Felon’
Gender, Feminism and Abolition
Solitary Confinement
An Evening with Maine Inside Out
Panel Discussion | Jacinta
Abolition Night at the Strand
Drawing Liberation: An Art Making Workshop at Indigo Arts Alliance
Affirmation with Warp Trio
Art&: Art and Social Change
Home Fires – Children, Families, and the Impact of Incarceration
Lunch with Leo Hylton
Introducing the F&C Podcast
1. ‘Let Us Not Flatter Ourselves’: Abolition’s History
Visualizing Incarceration
Opening Reception: Maine Voices Beyond Prison Walls
2. ‘Love is What the Transformation’s Got to Be:’ On Accountability and Punishment
Art &: Dread Scott – The Art of Liberation
PANEL DISCUSSION: Transforming Surveillance
The Torture Letters, Reckoning with Police Violence
3. ‘Prisons Don’t Actually Fix Anything:’ Ending Youth Incarceration
Colby Visiting Writers’ Series: Tongo Eisen-Martin
4. ‘Why Do We Need To Be Punishing People?’: Abolitionist Feminism and the Last Girl
Navigating the Fog of Reentry
The Soundscape of American Hyperincarceration
What Does Abolition Sound Like?
Poems for Survival Workshop with Arisa White & Indigo Arts Alliance
5. Alternatives to Incarceration: Drug Policy
What Does Abolition Feel Like?
SMWRC Art Workshop with Daniel Minter & Indigo Arts Alliance
Art and Art History Course at Maine State Prison
What Does Liberation Sound Like? – An Instrument-Building Workshop
6. ‘Finding Our Courage’: Alternatives to Incarceration for Addressing Harm
Sentencing: Reading and Writing Across Barriers
Abolition for the 21st Century
Freedom & Captivity Primary Source Set
7. ‘We’re Creating the Next Generation of Broken People’: Parenting and Prison
First Freedoms in Captivity Opening Reception
Visions of Liberation: An Artist Talk + Conversation with Carl Joe Williams
Education | Incarceration Nation: Understanding and Imagining Freedom and Justice
8. ‘We are the Revolution’: Black P.O.W.E.R’s vision
The Weeping City
9. Abolition From Within?
10. Confronting Surveillance
ART INSIDE
Freedom & Captivity: Maine Voices Beyond Prison Walls
Stories of Incarceration: Portraits from the Penobscot County Jail Storytelling Project
Monitor: Surveillance, Data, and the New Panoptic
The ABCs of Abolition
What Rhymes with Freedom?: Visions of Decarceration
Freedom & Captivity Poem
Shut Down Long Creek
Home Fires
Maine Inside Out: 4 Virtual Performances
Bob Thompson: This House Is Mine
Collage of Pictures
sea/sky, blood, earth, you
Begin Again: reckoning with intolerance in Maine
States of Incarceration
Closure
First Freedoms in Captivity
Passing the Time: Artwork by World War II German Prisoners of War in Aroostook County
The Advent of Green Acre, A Bahá’í Center of Learning
Art in Captivity: Inside Out
11. Immigrant Detention and Deportation
Wilderness and Culture
Shut Down Long Creek: Reinvesting in Maine’s Youth
Art Inside: Séan Alonzo Harris at Mountain View Correctional Facility
Art Inside: Lesley Macvane at the Women’s Center
Art Inside: Trent Bell at Maine State Prison