03/18/2019

Above and Beyond Borders Webinar

Last Thursday, March 14 Arts & Democracy, No Longer Empty, and NOCD-NYZ held a webinar with artists and cultural organizers from Chicago, IL, Douglas, AZ and New York, NY who are actively working to envision a life of dignity for immigrants, detainees and prisoners, individuals who have been violated and rendered invisible.

The webinar featured presentations on an art program co-created with prisoners at Cook County Jail and neighbors living in its vicinity, a collective using the arts to re-envision the US/MX border, and a sanctuary-based organization engaging cultural organizing to build solidarity and support for an immigrant population under threat of deportation in NYC.

Watch the webinar here.

 

Featured programs and presenters included:

Maria Gaspar’s 96 Acres Project and
Radioactive: Stories from Beyond the Wall

M Jenea Sanchez’s Border Arts Corridor

Members of the New Sanctuary Coalition’s art wing

Facilitated by Raquel de Anda, No Longer Empty

 

 

Image:

Maria Gaspar, Taste of Little Village Community Carnival, digital photograph, 2015.