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SUMMARY:Performance by Samita Sinha and Fall Exhibitions Openings
DESCRIPTION:Join us October 2\, 5-6 pm\, for a performance by internationally renowned vocal artist and composer Samita Sinha followed by an opening celebration from 6-8 pm of our fall exhibitions: Carlos Motta: When Time Stands Still and Victor ‘Marka27’ Quiñonez: Ni de Aquí\, Ni de Allá (Not From Here\, Not From There)\, with the artists in attendance. \n\n\n\nFor the performance\, Samita Sinha will draw on her Indian vocal training to respond to new and recent artworks by Colombian-born artist Carlos Motta on view in When Time Stands Still\, including a video in which the vocalist is featured. This and other works\, including sculpture\, installation\, and endurance-based performance video\, poetically—and powerfully— manifest the historical and aesthetic productions of difference and marginalization that inform current anti-immigration politics and climate injustices. Performing within the exhibition\, Sinha will offer an embodied response through the multivalent and experiential language of vibration. \n\n\n\nFollowing the performance\, from 6-8 pm\, will be a celebration for the opening of Victor ‘Marka27’ Quiñonez: Ni de Aquí\, Ni de Allá (Not From Here\, Not From There)\, a multimedia exhibition with paintings\, sculpture\, and installation exploring issues of migration and belonging— and which gained national attention after it was abruptly censored by the University of North Texas.  \n\n\n\nThese opening events are free and open to the public. \n\n\n\nSamita Sinha‘s performances and compositions have been commissioned by Asia Society\, Performance Space\, Danspace\, Rubin Museum\, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council\, Queens Museum\, Gibney Dance\, and Western Front\, and presented by The Kitchen\, Wexner Center for the Arts\, REDCAT\, PICA\, National Sawdust and others. She has received awards from National Endowment for the Arts\, Fulbright Foundation\, National Performance Network\, and New York State Council on the Arts.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/exhibition-opening-celebration/
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SUMMARY:Under the Mantle of an Idocile Dream with Denise Carrascosa
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a screening of the video-performance Under the Mantle of an Idocile Dream (Bruna Castro\, Brasil\, 2026)\, followed by a conversation between Denise Carrascosa and Gina Dent around the historical\, political and spiritual relations between Afro-Brazilian ancestrality\, visual arts and abolition feminism in Brazil.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDenise Carrascosa is a writer\, lawyer\, and full professor of literature at the Federal University of Bahia\, in Brasil. She holds a Ph.D. in Theory and Criticism of Literature and Culture (UFBA) and completed postdoctoral studies in the History of Slavery in Brasil (UFRB). In 2010\, she launched the abolitionist project Indocile Bodies and Free Minds: an art-education program for literary writing at the Women’s Prison Complex in Bahia\, where she established\, together with sentenced women inmates\, the Free Minds Library (2012)\, enabling Sisters inside to access sentence remission through reading.  \n\n\n\nCarrascosa wrote Técnicas e Políticas de si nas margens: literatura e prisão no Brasil pós-Carandiru (Appris\, 2015); and edited Firminas em Fuga (Ed. Ogum’s\, 2023)\, a poetry anthology by incarcerated women. As a guest author at FLIP 2023\, she launched the abolitionist play O Pacto de Bocapiu: a cumplicidade silenciosa do femiNegricídio de Estado nas prisões (Ed. Ogum’s\, 2023). At the 2024 Bahia Book Biennial\, she launched her book of literary criticism essays from the past two decades\, Corpo de Vento: Exu da Teoria – Travessias Crítico-Performativas pelas Artes Negras (EDUFBA\, 2024). In 2024\, she received the Esperança Garcia Award for her work in combating violence against women and was a finalist for the 66th Jabuti Award in the Reading Promotion Category. In 2025\, she launched Bocapiu: the Hush Pact—the silent complicity of the State’s Blackfeminicide in prisons (Ogum’s Toques Press)\, translated by Jess Oliveira and Bruna Barros\, at New York University and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. In collaboration with Beatriz Carrascosa França\, she edited the anthology Se Anastácia Falasse (Ogum’s Toques Negros\, 2025) – a collection of short stories\, testimonies\, and chronicles by incarcerated women in Brasil.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGina Dent (Ph.D.\, English & Comparative Literature\, Columbia University) is Professor of Humanities and Faculty Director of the Institute of the Arts & Sciences at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where she has won awards for her teaching (Dizikes Faculty Teaching Award)\, advocacy (Chancellor’s Award for Diversity)\, and research (Innovator of the Year). Currently\, she serves as Principal Investigator and Co-Director for Visualizing Abolition\, a multidisciplinary project—involving exhibitions\, events\, fellowships\, and academic programs—addressing the global crisis of incarceration through art and visual culture. Her recent collaborative projects grow out of her decades-long work as a social justice advocate—Abolition. Feminism. Now. (co-authored with Angela Davis\, Erica Meiners\, and Beth Richie\, Haymarket 2022)\, and Seeing through Stone (exhibition catalog\, Marquand 2024). She works with several organizations nationally and internationally\, including Columbia University’s Center for Justice and Australia’s Sisters Inside\, primarily on justice-related concerns. \n\n\n\nProfessor Dent has offered graduate courses and faculty seminars in black feminisms\, critical race studies\, critical theory and postcolonialism\, and legal theory and visual culture in Brazil (Universidade Federal da Bahia\, Salvador and Universidade Federal Recôcavo da Bahia\, Cachoeira)\, Colombia (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)\, and Sweden (Linköping University)\, as well as at the European Graduate School\, and lectures widely on these and other subjects. She previously held positions at Princeton University and Columbia University and was Director of the Institute for Advanced Feminist Research at UCSC\, as well as Principal Investigator for the University of California Multicampus Research Group on Transnationalizing Justice.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/idocile-dream-with-denise-carrascosa/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Visualizing Abolition
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SUMMARY:Afrobeats Nite Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a night of dancing\, joy\, and community organized by Afrobeats Nite Santa Cruz. In addition to music\, there will be vendors\, food trucks\, and late night showings of the exhibitions Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez: Ni de Aquí\, Ni de Allá and Carlos Motta: When Time Stands Still.  \n\n\n\nAfrobeats Nite at the IAS is a collaboration with Visualizing Abolition\, an arts-based initiative that reaches across prison borders to contribute to the unfolding collective story and alternative imagining underway to create a future free of prisons. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJase “Monk” Earl is a Santa Cruz–based DJ\, curator\, cultural producer\, educator\, and writer whose understanding of community is rooted in Hip Hop culture and shaped by his upbringing in the immigrant-rich neighborhood of Crown Heights\, Brooklyn. As the founder of Afroscope Promotions and founder\, curator\, and resident DJ of Afrobeats Nite Santa Cruz\, he creates public spaces where African and diasporic music become catalysts for connection\, cultural exchange\, and collective celebration. \n\n\n\nWith an artistic practice rooted in his childhood\, Earl’s work spans live performance\, community arts programming\, youth education\, and international cultural exchange. He has taught DJ workshops in Accra\, Ghana through the Universal Family Network\, produced large-scale cultural events throughout Santa Cruz County\, and continues to mentor emerging artists by creating opportunities for collaboration and public performance. \n\n\n\nEarl holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the California Institute of Integral Studies. Whether performing as DJ Monk Earl or creating original work under the name Juba Zaki\, he approaches DJing as a live compositional practice rooted in cultural stewardship\, improvisation\, and the belief that music can transform public space into a place of belonging. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDJ Mai Girl plays festivals\, clubs\, shows\, and private events all over the West Coast and beyond.  Her unique blend of genres and hand-picked selections– whether it be hip hop\, soul\, house\, jazzy vibes\, old school jams\, Afro\, Caribbean or Latin rhythms– keep people moving all night. She consistently plays one Stevie or Prince song every set to remind herself of why she started DJing in the first place.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/afrobeats-nite-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Visualizing Abolition
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SUMMARY:Poetry and the Visual Slavery Archive in Brazil with Luciany Aparecida
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of poetry and conversation with Luciany Aparecida\, author of Macala (2022) and Aziri (2026). The works are inspired by nineteenth-century photographs of Black women taken in Brazil\, shaped by the historical contexts of slavery and scientific racism. The research explores how poetry and fiction can reinscribe these images beyond the colonial gaze that originally produced them. Once confined within systems of economic exploitation and the aesthetic contemplation of whiteness\, these women are now reimagined through a poetic practice in which poetry and photography converge as a feminist and abolitionist mode of critically engaging the archive. Following the wake\, the work seeks to transform documents of violence into new aesthetic forms of freedom. \n\n\n\nThis event is organized by lawyer and professor Denise Carrascoa\, Visualizing Abolition Scholar in Residence.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLuciany Aparecida is a writer as well as a psychoanalyst in training. She holds a Ph.D. in Literature\, with research focused on literature and culture. She is the author of Mata Doce\, a novel\, winner of the 2024 São Paulo Literature Award and finalist for the 2024 Jabuti Prize. She also is the author of two poetry collections: Aziri (2016) and Macala (2022)\, as well as Joanna Mina (2021)\, a play.  \n\n\n\nAparecida is a researcher with the Black Ancestry Literature Group at PUCSP and was a guest writer in Berlin at the Middle Ground 2025 Festival; in Mexico at the Guadalajara International Book Fair in 2025; in Colombia at the Bogotá International Book Fair in 2024; in Rio de Janeiro\, Brazil\, at the FLUP 2024 Literary Festival of the Peripheries and at the FLIP 2022 Paraty International Literary Festival. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDenise Carrascosa is a writer\, lawyer\, and full professor of literature at the Federal University of Bahia\, in Brasil. She holds a Ph.D. in Theory and Criticism of Literature and Culture (UFBA) and completed postdoctoral studies in the History of Slavery in Brasil (UFRB). In 2010\, she launched the abolitionist project Indocile Bodies and Free Minds: an art-education program for literary writing at the Women’s Prison Complex in Bahia\, where she established\, together with sentenced women inmates\, the Free Minds Library (2012)\, enabling Sisters inside to access sentence remission through reading.  \n\n\n\nCarrascosa wrote Técnicas e Políticas de si nas margens: literatura e prisão no Brasil pós-Carandiru (Appris\, 2015); and edited Firminas em Fuga (Ed. Ogum’s\, 2023)\, a poetry anthology by incarcerated women. As a guest author at FLIP 2023\, she launched the abolitionist play O Pacto de Bocapiu: a cumplicidade silenciosa do femiNegricídio de Estado nas prisões (Ed. Ogum’s\, 2023). At the 2024 Bahia Book Biennial\, she launched her book of literary criticism essays from the past two decades\, Corpo de Vento: Exu da Teoria – Travessias Crítico-Performativas pelas Artes Negras (EDUFBA\, 2024). In 2024\, she received the Esperança Garcia Award for her work in combating violence against women and was a finalist for the 66th Jabuti Award in the Reading Promotion Category. In 2025\, she launched Bocapiu: the Hush Pact—the silent complicity of the State’s Blackfeminicide in prisons (Ogum’s Toques Press)\, translated by Jess Oliveira and Bruna Barros\, at New York University and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. In collaboration with Beatriz Carrascosa França\, she edited the anthology Se Anastácia Falasse (Ogum’s Toques Negros\, 2025) – a collection of short stories\, testimonies\, and chronicles by incarcerated women in Brasil. 
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/abolition-in-brazil-poetry-reading-with-luciany-aparecida/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Visualizing Abolition
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SUMMARY:Rioters: Unruly Images and Freedom Experiments with Patrícia Freitas
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a screening of three short films by Patrícia Freitas\, followed by a conversation. Fleeing Firminas features moments of women in incarceration participating in the creative writing workshops of the Corpos Indóceis\, Mentes Livres Project\, coordinated by Professor Denise Carrascosa. Fleeing Roquelina follows writer Dona Roquelina’s release from prison. And Rioters is a feature-length documentary currently in production. Filming began in 2024 on the occasion of the launch\, at the Lemos de Brito Penitentiary in Salvador\, of the books Firminas em Fuga\, a collection of poems written by participants in the literary workshops\, and Abolition. Feminism. Now. by Angela Y. Davis\, Gina Dent\, Erica R. Meiners and Beth E. Richie. Rioters tells the stories of Black women from the post-abolition era in old Bahia to the present day; women who dared and continue to dare to occupy spaces that\, though still hostile to them today\, allow their art\, knowledge\, and ancestral power to resonate. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrícia Freitas\, documentary filmmaker\, holds a master’s degree in literature and culture from the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA)\, and is an associate researcher at PAVIC—Researchers in Audiovisual Media\, Iconography\, and Content. In over two decades of work\, she has directed documentaries such as Ira (2004) on religious racism\, which received an honorable mention at Cinesul (2005) and the Ibero-American Film and Video Festival (2005) and was screened at the Ethnographic Film Festival (2005)\, Negros em Movimento (2005)\, about Black theater in Bahia and Rio de Janeiro; and Enquanto te espero\, a luz coalhou (2018)\, a poetic documentary screened at the Arqfilm Festival in Santiago\, Chile\, and Puebla\, Mexico\, among others. In recent years\, she has worked as an assistant director on the series Enredos da liberdade (dir. Luis Carlos de Alencar)\, currently streaming on Globoplay\, and as a researcher for the series Histórias submersas (dir. Paulo Alcântara) and Todos os sonhos (dir. Sofia Federico)\, both aired on TVE Bahia\, among others. She also served as an assistant to Joel Zito Araújo and Hermano Penna\, leading figures in Brazilian cinema. \n\n\n\nShe has taught at public and private educational institutions\, such as the Federal University of Recôncavo da Bahia (UFRB)\, where she served as a substitute instructor in 2019 at the Center for Health Sciences. Since 2013\, she has been part of the “Corpos Indóceis\, Mentes Livres” initiative\, leading creative writing workshops with women incarcerated at the Lemos de Brito Prison Complex in Salvador\, a project coordinated by Professor Denise Carrascosa\, Ph.D. (UFBA). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDenise Carrascosa is a writer\, lawyer\, and full professor of literature at the Federal University of Bahia\, in Brasil. She holds a Ph.D. in Theory and Criticism of Literature and Culture (UFBA) and completed postdoctoral studies in the History of Slavery in Brasil (UFRB). In 2010\, she launched the abolitionist project Indocile Bodies and Free Minds: an art-education program for literary writing at the Women’s Prison Complex in Bahia\, where she established\, together with sentenced women inmates\, the Free Minds Library (2012)\, enabling Sisters inside to access sentence remission through reading.  \n\n\n\nCarrascosa wrote Técnicas e Políticas de si nas margens: literatura e prisão no Brasil pós-Carandiru (Appris\, 2015); and edited Firminas em Fuga (Ed. Ogum’s\, 2023)\, a poetry anthology by incarcerated women. As a guest author at FLIP 2023\, she launched the abolitionist play O Pacto de Bocapiu: a cumplicidade silenciosa do femiNegricídio de Estado nas prisões (Ed. Ogum’s\, 2023). At the 2024 Bahia Book Biennial\, she launched her book of literary criticism essays from the past two decades\, Corpo de Vento: Exu da Teoria – Travessias Crítico-Performativas pelas Artes Negras (EDUFBA\, 2024). In 2024\, she received the Esperança Garcia Award for her work in combating violence against women and was a finalist for the 66th Jabuti Award in the Reading Promotion Category. In 2025\, she launched Bocapiu: the Hush Pact—the silent complicity of the State’s Blackfeminicide in prisons (Ogum’s Toques Press)\, translated by Jess Oliveira and Bruna Barros\, at New York University and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. In collaboration with Beatriz Carrascosa França\, she edited the anthology Se Anastácia Falasse (Ogum’s Toques Negros\, 2025) – a collection of short stories\, testimonies\, and chronicles by incarcerated women in Brasil. 
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/abolition-in-brazil-screening-with-patricia-freitas/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Visualizing Abolition
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SUMMARY:New Exhibitions Opening at Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos to celebrate the opening of two Visualizing Abolition exhibitions: Visions From Within: Women of Resilience\, a new exhibition of art curated by Elizabeth Lozano and Anthony Alejandrez for the Visualizing Abolition Transition Fellowship Program\, and Elevar la Cultura\, a 22-foot public sculpture by artist and two-time Right of Return Fellow Victor ‘Marka27’ Quiñonez. The opening will feature panel discussions by currently and formerly incarcerated artists and organizers\, remarks by artist Victor ‘Marka27’ Quiñonez\, low riders\, live entertainment\, free food\, and more. \n\n\n\nVisions From Within: Women of Resilience features newly commissioned paintings\, drawings\, and works in other mediums by people currently incarcerated in the two women’s facilities in California\, Central California Facility for Women and California Institute for Women. The artists included in the show differently illuminate how they cultivate resilience—maintaining a sense of self and purpose—in circumstances designed to perpetuate harm.  \n\n\n\n“Art\, poetry\, gardening and other ways of tapping into my creativity was essential to my own state of mind during my own thirty years of incarceration\,” explains co-curator Elizabeth Lozano. “I wanted to provide others an outlet to express their imaginations\, while they continue their journeys to also get free.” \n\n\n\nElevar la Cultura\, an immersive sculptural installation featuring a twenty-two-foot-tall pyramid built from ice coolers adorned with ancestral textiles\, sacred symbols\, and mural work will be on view at Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos (1817 Soquel) November 7\, 2026- March 7\, 2027. As Quiñonez explains\, this sculpture epitomizes the contradictions of living—and laboring—as an immigrant in the United States:  \n\n\n\n “Most people see the cooler as a tool for leisure…for barbecues\, tailgating\, and celebrations. But for immigrant communities\, the cooler is a tool and symbol for opportunity and independence. In every major city\, you see families and vendors selling fruit\, food\, and water out of these coolers on the streets and in subway stations. They’re a necessity for survival and a way to start an honest living\,” the artist shares. \n\n\n\nThese exhibitions\, organized through UC Santa Cruz’s Visualizing Abolition initiative and coordinated by Anthony Alejandrez\, are part of a multi-year collaboration between SAnta Cruz Barrios Unidos and Visualizing Abolition to educate and address issues of incarceration through art and culture. \n\n\n\nFREE and open to the public.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/new-exhibitions-opening-at-santa-cruz-barrios-unidos/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos\, 1817 Soquel Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95062
CATEGORIES:Exhibition opening,Tours & Talks,Visualizing Abolition
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SUMMARY:James Spooner in conversation with Johnny Damm on AFROPUNK\, anger\, and other things
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation with filmmaker and graphic novelist James Spooner about his latest graphic novel\, moderated by cartoonist Johnny Damm.  It Starts with Anger: A Punk Beginning. An AFROPUNK Ending tells the origin story of the multi-million-dollar AFROPUNK festival—beginning not with big stages or brand sponsorship\, but with one mixed-race teenager’s search for belonging in the nineties New York City punk scene. \n\n\n\nThe conversation will be followed by a book signing by Spooner. Local author and punk historian John Malkin will also be signing his new book\, Punk Spirit! – An Oral History of Punk Rock\,Spirituality\, and Liberation\, and Johnny Damm will have his latest comic\, I’m a Cop: Real Life Horror Comics No. 3 also available.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJames Spooner is an award winning graphic novelist\, filmmaker and tattoo artist.  His debut graphic novel\, The High Desert  was named “Best of 2022” by Publishers Weekly\, The Washington Post and The New York Public Library. The High Desert is the 2023 recipient of the American Library Association’s Alex Award and the Cartoonist Studio Prize. Spooner co-edited an anthology of Black punk writers and comic creators entitled\, Black Punk Now. Available now\, the book was named in the top 10 Music Books of 2023 by Pitchfork\, top 5 Music Books from the Guardian and received a Kirkus star. Pantheon has acquired his  forthcoming book It Starts With Anger\, set for publication in Aug of 2026. He was recently commissioned to adapt a story  by the Scottish Book Trust and is  regular contributor to RazorCake Magazine.  Spooner directed the seminal documentary Afro-Punk which premiered at national and international film festivals\, including Toronto International and The American Black Film Festival. James also co-founded the AfroPunk Festival\, which currently boasts audiences in the hundreds of thousands around the world. Spooner’s work has been recounted in various publications\, including NPR\, The Los Angeles Times\, Vice\, The Village Voice\, The New Yorker\, MTV\, NBC News and Variety. He was a recipient of the ReNew Media Rockefeller Grant. He is a guest curator for the Broad Museum in Los Angeles and the Punk Rock Museum in Las Vegas and previously programmed for the Brooklyn Academy of Music. James continues to screen Afro-Punk around the world\, giving talks on punk\, comics and Black identity.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/book-talk-it-starts-with-anger/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:TCB - The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Rio Theatre for a screening of TCB – The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing\, followed by a conversation with one of the film’s directors and producers\, Louis Massiah. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTCB – The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing (2025\, 105 minutes) is a biography of the influential writer\, filmmaker and cultural worker\, who with humor and deep insight\, inspired a generation of artists to dedicate themselves to community empowerment. The film is structured as a series of lessons on cultural organizing\, gleaned from Bambara’s life and shared by her friends\, colleagues and students. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLouis Massiah is a documentary filmmaker and the founder of the Scribe Video Center in Philadelphia\, He has developed production methodologies that assist first time makers author their own stories\, including the Precious Places Community History project\, a collection of 150 documentaries; Muslim Voices of Philadelphia; The Great Migration – A City Transformed\, and The Tenants of Lenapehocking in the Age of Magnets. \n\n\n\nMassiah’s documentaries include The Bombing of Osage Avenue\, W.E.B. Du Bois – A Biography in Four Voices\, Cecil B. Moore\, two films for the Eyes on the Prize II series\, A is for Anarchist\, B is for Brown and TCB – The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing. 
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/tcb-the-toni-cade-bambara-school-of-organizing/
LOCATION:Rio Theatre\, 1205 Soquel Ave\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95062\, United States
CATEGORIES:Screenings,Visualizing Abolition
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