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DESCRIPTION:Please join White Snake Projects and Human Rights Lab for this interactive 
 Zoom forum, where we will explore art as a means of transformation for 
 persons who have experienced or are experiencing incarceration. The event 
 will include guided activities and a discussion about art making and 
 community through music, drama, and creative writing while 
 imprisoned.\n\nThis is the first event in a three-part series. We encourage 
 you to register for Art and Imagination Inside Prisons (4/6) and 
 Freedom-Making in an Age of Mass Incarceration (4/13) as well.\n\nThis 
 series is a prelude to Death By Life, a virtual opera presented by White 
 Snake Projects, which explores the intersection of systemic racism and mass 
 incarceration.\n\n\nPresenting Partners:\n\nFifth House Ensemble harnesses 
 the collaborative spirit of chamber music to reach beyond the 
 traditionally-perceived limits of classical music. Fifth House is in 
 residence at sites serving at-risk youth and adults in the Chicago 
 area.\n\nOakdale Community Choir provides choral singing experiences for 
 men in the general population of the Iowa Medical and Classification Center 
 (Oakdale Prison) and for outside singers in the community who have an 
 interest in learning more about issues in the prison system locally, 
 throughout Iowa, and across the nation.\n\nStorycatchers Theatre works with 
 youth in the juvenile justice system, helping them tell their stories 
 through musical theatre. By moving beyond their histories, the youth 
 transform their own lives, communities, and people like you who are ready 
 to listen.\n\nDr. Kính T. Vu is an assistant professor of Music at Boston 
 University. His current research centers on exploring connections between 
 music education and involuntary or forced human displacement\n\n\nABOUT: 
 Human Rights Lab of the Pozen Center, University of 
 Chicago\n\nhttps://humanrights.uchicago.edu/lab\n\nThe Human Rights Lab 
 actively engages University of Chicago students and community members in 
 solutions to human rights problems, advancing new questions around human 
 rights theory and practice through the lens of deep research, experiential 
 learning, and critical community-building.\n\nIn its first five years, 
 under the leadership of Director of Human Rights Practice Alice Kim, the 
 Lab is addressing the intersecting human rights crises of racialized 
 policing and mass incarceration in the United States.\n\n\nABOUT: White 
 Snake Projects, activist opera theater 
 company\n\nhttps://www.whitesnakeprojects.org/about/\n\nWe are White Snake 
 Projects, an activist opera company founded and led by an immigrant woman 
 of color. After three years of exploring our identity, we have a vision and 
 a game plan.\n\nWe’ve put this vision into action by integrating social 
 activism with original opera, partnering with other activists to 
 cross-promote important social issues and opera, and redefining how opera 
 is made by involving young people from our community.\n\nWhite Snake 
 Projects is supported by a grant from the National Foundation for the Arts 
 CARES Act Fund 
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 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/03/24/18841042.php
SUMMARY:Art as Transformation: Music and Drama for Incarcerated Youth
LOCATION:Online event
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/03/24/18841042.php
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