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SUMMARY:Visualizing Abolition at Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos: A Day of Art\, Performances\, and Conversations
DESCRIPTION:We invite you to a day of performances\, conversations\, and community uplift at Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos in celebration of the opening of two Visualizing Abolition exhibitions: Visions From Within: Women of Resilience\, a new exhibition of art and poetry 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 formerly-incarcerated artists and organizers\, remarks by Victor Quiñonez\, lowriders\, live entertainment\, free food\, and more. \n\n\n\nSchedule of Events2:00 Celebration begins w/ FREE food and paletas\, vendors\, lowriders3:00 Performance: Mexica dancing by Kalpulli Izkalli3:20 Remarks: Nane Alejandrez\, Founding Director\, SC Barrios Unidos3:30 Panel Discussion: Creative Resilience Inside and Out\, moderated by Gina Dent\, Co-Director\, Visualizing Abolition\, and featuring Elizabeth Lozano\, Dolores Canales\, and Karina Poncio4:30 Conversation: Building Community and Resistance: Elevar la Cultura with Victor ‘Marka27’ Quiñonez and Anthony Alejandrez \n\n\n\nAbout the Exhibitions:Visions From Within: Women of Resilience is curated by Elizabeth Lozano and Anthony Alejandrez for the Visualizing Abolition Transition Fellowship Program at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. The exhibition features newly-commissioned paintings\, drawings\, and works in other media 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\nVictor ‘Marka27’ Quiñonez: Elevar la Cultura is an immersive sculptural installation featuring a twenty-two-foot-tall pyramid built from ice coolers and adorned with ancestral textiles\, sacred symbols\, and mural work. Originally commissioned by The Shed\, New York City\, the sculpture epitomizes the contradictions of living—and laboring—as an immigrant in the United States. Both a monument and an offering\, Elevar la Cultura fuses street aesthetics\, ancestral iconography\, and contemporary storytelling into a powerful visual language that uplifts the voices too often left out of mainstream narratives. \n\n\n\nAbout the Performers/ SpeakersKalpulli Izkalli\, located in Los Banos\, is a grass roots\, intergenerational\, action and resource group formed to transform the health and environment of our community. Through community gatherings\, healing circles\, and cultural events\, Kalpulli Izkalli promotes healing and justice through the celebration of cultura.Nane Alejandrez is a nationally-recognized organizer\, prison abolitionist\, restorative justice practitioner\, and founder of Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos\, one of California’s most respected organizations serving youth\, families\, incarcerated people\, and communities most impacted by poverty and violence. For nearly five decades\, he has helped shape community-based alternatives to violence\, incarceration\, and systemic injustice by centering healing\, culture\, and human dignity. \n\n\n\nGina Dent is a renowned scholar of abolition feminism and Principal Investigator and Co-Director of Visualizing Abolition\, a multidisciplinary project—involving exhibitions\, events\, fellowships\, and academic programs—addressing the global crisis of incarceration through art and visual culture. She is Professor of Humanities and Faculty Director of the Institute of the Arts & Sciences at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. \n\n\n\nElizabeth Lozano is Assistant Director of Inside Initiatives for the Visualizing Abolition program at the University of California\, Santa Cruz and Program Coordinator for Inside Membership with Initiate Justice. Drawing from her experiences navigating the complexities of the legal system for more that 30 years\, and her deep understanding of its impact on individuals\, families\, and communities\, Lozano is also the co-founder of the Juvenile Offenders Committee\, which advocates for redemptive programming\, restorative justice\, and meaningful opportunities for young people involved in the legal system. \n\n\n\nDolores Canales is an activist\, organizer\, and the Director of Community Outreach for The Bail Project. She also has roles with Legal Services for Prisoners with Children\, Orangewood Children’s Foundation\, and is a founding member of Unlock The Box and California Families Against Solitary Confinement. \n\n\n\nVictor “Marka27” Quiñonez is a visual artist working at the intersections of contemporary art\, graffiti\, vinyl toys\, fashion and design\, and art activism. His work is inspired by the empowerment of marginalized communities and the fight for representation. He is a Frieze Los Angeles Impact Prize winner (2025) and a Right of Return and Art for Justice Fellow (2023\, 2024)\, using his platform to amplify narratives around immigration\, incarceration\, and identity. \n\n\n\nAnthony Alejandrez is the Visualizing Abolition Transitions Program Coordinator at University of California\, Santa Cruz\, as well as Director and Curator of Visions From Within\, a project designed to elevate the creative practices of people inside. He works with those that are currently incarcerated and those that are newly released\, supporting them with resources\, volunteer opportunities\, and work in the art space. \n\n\n\n \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: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 and Gina Dent. \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.  \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. \n\n\n\nMake a Difference (Tab to skip section.)
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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