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At the intersection of<br><br>
ART, ACTIVISM & SCHOLARSHIP<br><br>
NEW COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA<br><br>
presents<br><br>
<br><br>
INTERRUPTED LIFE: INCARCERATED MOTHERS IN THE UNITED STATES*<br><br>
A traveling public art installation and a week of performance art,
film,<br>
presentations and discussion.<br><br>
<br><br>
June 3-June 9, 2006, New College of California, 777 Valencia Street,
San<br>
Francisco<br><br>
<br><br>
A dramatic exhibit of painting, drawings, sculpture and photography
that<br>
documents the experiences of incarcerated persons in the United
States.<br>
Interrupted Life seeks to educate and invites discussion about
current<br>
realities and decent solutions to a major and growing problem in
U.S.<br>
society. National curator: Rickie Solinger.<br><br>
<br><br>
OPENING NIGHT GALA<br><br>
Sat. June 3, 6:00pm -9:00pm<br><br>
Reception: 6:00pm Speakers: 7:00pm<br><br>
Speakers:<br><br>
Rhodessa Jones, Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women<br><br>
Helene Vosters, New College: Co-Director, Activism & Social
Change<br><br>
Melanie DeMore, singer/songwriter<br><br>
Rickie Solinger, Interrupted Life National Curator, historian<br><br>
Maisha Quint, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children<br><br>
<br><br>
SPIRITUAL DIMENSIONS OF INCARCERATION<br><br>
Sunday, June 4, 2:00 - 4:00pm<br><br>
Hosted by New College's Women's Spirituality Program<br><br>
Speakers: Deborah Grenn (Core Faculty, Women's Spirituality)<br><br>
Cheryl Dawson<br><br>
<br><br>
CONVERSATIONS AT THE INTERSECTION OF ARTS, ACTIVISM &
SCHOLARSHIP<br><br>
Monday, June 5, 6:00 - 9:30pm<br><br>
Refreshments: 6:00 Panel discussion: 6:30 New College Open House:<br>
7:30-9:00<br><br>
<br><br>
Moderator: Dean Mitch Hall<br><br>
Panelists: Erika Shuch (Experimental Performance Institute);<br><br>
Genny Lim (Weekend BA Completion); Helene Vosters (Activism &
Social<br>
Change)<br><br>
<br><br>
MARILYN BUCK: FROM FORCED PASSAGES TO WILD POPPIES<br><br>
Tues. June 6, 7:00 - 9:00pm<br><br>
An evening of poetry and discussion celebrating the life of<br>
anti-imperialist political prisoner and COINTELPRO target Marilyn
Buck.<br>
New College faculty Graciela Trevisan and David Meltzer, both of
whom<br>
have worked with Marilyn extensively, will host the evening. Dylan<br>
Rodríguez, author of "Forced Passages: Imprisoned Radical
Intellectual<br>
and the US Prison Regime", will talk about Marilyn and others who
speak<br>
from behind prison walls. Friends of Marilyn Buck Committee will
update<br>
the audience on Marilyn's case. Sliding scale donation suggested (to<br>
support the California Coalition for Women Prisoners). Co-sponsors<br>
Modern Times Book Store and Friends of Marilyn Buck<br><br>
<br><br>
<br><br>
"ONLY THE DEAD CAN KILL: STORIES FROM JAIL"<br><br>
Wednesday, June 7, 7:00 - 9:00pm<br><br>
Join author Margo Perin and Community Works/West for an evening<br>
celebrating this exciting anthology of "Stories from Jail"
featuring<br>
readings by formerly incarcerated individuals and contributing
editor<br>
Margo Perin.<br><br>
<br><br>
<br><br>
"ALL ALONE IN THE WORLD: CHILDREN OF THE INCARCERATED"<br><br>
Thursday. June 8, 7:00 - 9:00pm<br><br>
Join Nell Bernstein, author of "All Alone in the World: Children of
the<br><br>
Incarcerated" for a discussion of the impacts of incarceration
on<br>
children, families and communities. Event is co-sponsored by Center
for<br>
Children of Incarcerated Parents. Sliding scale donation suggested,
not<br>
required, to support the Danielle Metz legal fund. Sliding scale<br>
donation suggested (to support the California Coalition for Women<br>
Prisoners). Co-sponsors Modern Times Book Store.<br><br>
<br><br>
CLOSING NIGHT CELEBRATION: AN EVENING OF SPOKEN WORD, THEATER, SONG
AND<br>
DANCE<br><br>
Fri. June 9, 7:00 - 9:00pm<br><br>
Featuring performances by Baysic Project/Sisterz of the
Underground,<br><br>
Angela Wilson of the Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women,<br>
Maisha Quint of the Photovoice project, Maria Poblet, Manish Vaidya
and<br>
more!!! Refreshments and Closing Ceremony. Donations suggested to
support<br>
the Prison Activist Resource Center.<br><br>
<br><br>
<br><br>
June 2 through June 8<br><br>
In conjunction with the art exhibit, the Roxie Theatre will host the<br>
U.S. premiere showing of "Songbirds"<br><br>
Show times: Friday 6/2 thru Thursday 6/8: Nightly at 7:00 and 8:40
with<br>
Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2:00, 3:45 and 5:20<br><br>
<br><br>
SONGBIRDS<br><br>
Britain locks up more people than any other country in Europe, with
the<br>
female prison population having risen 173 percent in the last 10
years.<br>
Songbirds presents the stories of women behind bars in Downview
Prison<br>
in Surrey, England, to allow audiences to experience them through
this<br>
documentary musical. After conducting extensive research within the<br>
prison, Director Brian Hill collaborated with poet and lyricist
Simon<br>
Armitage and composer Simon Boswell to create songs ranging from rap
to<br>
lullaby for each Downview story told in the movie. Although the film<br>
deals with depressing issues of drug addiction, abuse, and serious<br>
crime, Songbirds finds humor and tenderness through the vulnerability
of<br>
singing. In the process viewers gain another portrait of these women<br>
beyond their prison sentences. - Anna Proulx (excerpt)<br><br>
<br><br>
<br><br>
COSPONSORS<br><br>
The Interrupted Life art exhibit and week of events at New College<br>
represents the efforts of an energetic coalition of activists,
artists,<br>
scholars, incarcerated women and their family and friends. We are
proud<br>
to be collaborating with these organizations: Legal Services for<br>
Prisoners with Children; California Coalition for Women Prisoners;<br>
Freedom Archives; Free Battered Women; Modern Times Bookstore;
Prison<br>
Desk of the National Radio Project; Buildingbloc Arts Collective;<br>
Community Initiatives Program of San Francisco Women Against Rape;<br>
Friends of Marilyn Buck; Justice Now; Center for Children of<br>
Incarcerated Parents; Prison Activist Resource Center; Books Not
Bars;<br>
Baysic Project/Sisterz of the Underground; Community Works,<br>
Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition and others!<br><br>
<br><br>
* The Interrupted Life art show was made possible by Ford Foundation<br>
support.<br>
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