Race, Prison, Justice: Illuminating Story Through the Arts

The Initiative on Cities is proud to be a supporting partner of Race, Prison, Justice: Illuminating Story Through the Arts, a part of the Prison Arts Project of the BU College of Fine Arts. The Initiative on Cities is proud to be a supporting partner of Race, Prison, Justice: Illuminating Story Through the Arts, a part of the Prison Arts Project of the BU College of Fine Arts. Members of the BU Community are invited to register for workshops that will explore the intersection of social justice and the arts with a 4-session interdisciplinary arts collaboration. Designed to explore race and incarceration as systemic injustice and the intersection of social justice and the arts, this program will feature guests with a history of incarceration and arts activism, including Halim Flowers, artist and social justice entrepreneur. Students will have the opportunity to cultivate creativity through theatre, music, dance, visual arts, etc and learn how to use the arts as a powerful tool for storytelling, transformation, and healing. There are two cohorts, with different meeting dates: Cohort 1 will meet on Tuesdays, from 3:30pm to 5pm ET on March 2, 9, 16, and 23 Cohort 2 will meet on Thursdays from 7-8:30pm ET on March 4, 11, 25 Register today! Please note that members of the BU Community (students, faculty, staff, and alumni) are welcome to register. Questions? Please contact Judy Braha at judyb@bu.edu or André de Quadros at adq@bu.edu or 617-694-2449.  Race, Prison, Justice: Illuminating Story Through the Arts is presented by the African American Studies Program, BU Arts Initiative, College of Fine Arts, the Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground, the Initiative on Cities, and BU Diversity & Inclusion. 

Members of the BU Community are invited to register for workshops that will explore the intersection of social justice and the arts with a 4-session interdisciplinary arts collaboration. Designed to explore race and incarceration as systemic injustice and the intersection of social justice and the arts, this program will feature guests with a history of incarceration and arts activism, including Halim Flowers, artist and social justice entrepreneur.

Students will have the opportunity to cultivate creativity through theatre, music, dance, visual arts, etc and learn how to use the arts as a powerful tool for storytelling, transformation, and healing.

There are two cohorts, with different meeting dates:

  • Cohort 1 will meet on Tuesdays, from 3:30pm to 5pm ET on March 2, 9, 16, and 23
  • Cohort 2 will meet on Thursdays from 7-8:30pm ET on March 4, 11, 25
Register today!

Please note that members of the BU Community (students, faculty, staff, and alumni) are welcome to register.

Questions? Please contact Judy Braha at judyb@bu.edu or André de Quadros at adq@bu.edu or 617-694-2449.

Race, Prison, Justice: Illuminating Story Through the Arts is presented by the African American Studies Program, BU Arts Initiative, College of Fine Arts, the Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground, the Initiative on Cities, and BU Diversity & Inclusion.