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DESCRIPTION:Tuesday, Dec 1, 12-1:30pm Pacific time\n\nJoin historian Robin D. G Kelley 
 and artist Isaac Julien for an online conversation about the anti-slavery 
 movements of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and current 
 abolitionist uprisings against racist police brutality and the prison 
 industrial complex. The conversation is informed by "Lessons of the 
 Hour-Frederick Douglass" (2019), Julien's immersive, ten-screen film 
 installation about the famed abolitionist currently on view at McEvoy Arts. 
 The conversation takes place online via Zoom on Wednesday, December 1, 2020 
 at 12pm PST. Attendance is free with registration.\n\nWith excerpts of his 
 speeches and dramatizations of his private and public milieus, 'Lessons' 
 offers a contemplative, poetic journey into Douglass' zeitgeist and a 
 forceful suggestion that the lessons of the abolitionist's hour have yet to 
 be learned. The installation is joined by Julien's tintype portraits and 
 mise-en-scenes photographs of the film's subjects as well as "When Living 
 is a Protest," an exhibition of modern and contemporary photography from 
 the McEvoy Family Collection curated by Mark Nash and "New Labor Movements" 
 a daily resonant film program curated by Leila Weefur that explores 
 contemporary visions of America and concepts of transnational Blackness. 
 The exhibitions are on view through March 13, 2021. Admission is 
 free.\n\nIsaac Julien's pioneering artistic practice incorporates the 
 moving image, photography, and installation to create open-ended narratives 
 through physical and sensorial immersion. Robin D. G. Kelley is a Professor 
 in the Department of African American Studies at UCLA. His research 
 explores the history of social movements in the U.S., the African Diaspora, 
 and Africa; black intellectuals; music; visual culture; contemporary urban 
 studies; historiography; poverty studies;  and ethnography. This event is 
 co-presented with the Institute of the Arts and Sciences at the University 
 of California, Santa Cruz as part of UC Santa Cruz's 'Visualizing 
 Abolition' series.\n\nFree\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/11/24/18838654.php
SUMMARY:Abolition Then and Now: Robin D. G. Kelley and Isaac Julien
LOCATION:Online via Zoom; via McEvoy Foundation for the Arts
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/11/24/18838654.php
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