Art has long been used as a vehicle for both healing and hope, two things often in short supply in prison. This webinar will assemble poets, theatre directors, and scholars of African American literature and culture for an exploration of the role that the arts can play in registering, resisting, and repairing injustices among incarcerated and policed populations.
Panel participants will discuss the transformative work of the Phoenix Players Theatre Group at Auburn Correctional Facility, the powerful experience of teaching poetry at Stateville Prison in Illinois, and the “sonic color line” that encompasses both racialized listening practices and the enforcement of racialized power in the United States.
