BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Institute of the Arts and Sciences - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Institute of the Arts and Sciences X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Institute of the Arts and Sciences REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20260308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20261101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20270314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20271107T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260410T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260607T170000 DTSTAMP:20260426T044729 CREATED:20260324T192312Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260423T170708Z UID:10928-1775840400-1780851600@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Visualizing Abolition Film Program: Beyond Access DESCRIPTION:Curated by Visualizing Abolition Visiting Faculty Pooja Rangan \n\n\n\nRun time: 49 minutes \n\n\n\nPrisons deny and censor the access of those trapped inside them—to information\, to intimacy\, to community\, to meaningful work\, to nourishment of all kinds\, and perhaps most cruelly\, to care. This program assembles a series of films\, including works by filmmakers incarcerated in California as well as others without that lived experience. Together\, these works confront the debilitating impacts of these restrictions and reveal how the disabling logic of the prison is extended to other institutional spaces (the hospital\, the university)\, turning access into a scarce commodity by enclosing what should be held in common. Questioning the carceral and state-sponsored productions of disability and accessibility\, the short films together reveal the courage of people working despite limitations to produce collective access for one another\, described simply and beautifully by disability justice activist Leah-Lakshmi Piepzna Samarasinha as “revolutionary love without charity.”  \n\n\n\nThanh TranDying in Prison\, 2022HD Video (color\, sound)\, 3 minutesCourtesy of the artist \n\n\n\nCarolyn LazardPre-Existing Condition\, 2019HD video (color\, sound)\, 6 minutesCourtesy of the artist and Trautwein Herleth3 \n\n\n\nAnthony AlejandrezAnother Rainy Day\, 2023Phone video (color\, sound)\, 3 minutesCourtesy of the artist \n\n\n\nJordan LordAfter…After… (Access)\, 2018HD Video (color\, sound)\, 16 minutesCourtesy of the artist \n\n\n\nRahsaan “New York” ThomasFriendly Signs\, 2023Video (color\, sound) 21 minutesCourtesy of Tommy Wickerd\, Empowerment Ave & System Impact Media \n\n\n\nImage credit: Carolyn Lazard\, Pre-Existing Condition (still). ID: [A scanned document of a table of information pertaining to medical experiments conducted in a prison in 1963. The scan is an inverted image: white\, type-written text on a black background speckled with white dots and a white margin on the left side of the frame. The information presented includes the dates of these experiments\, the University of Pennsylvania doctors who facilitated them\, the number of inmates who participated in the experiments\, and the amount that inmates were paid\, ranging from one to fifteen dollars per study. Brief descriptions of each test is listed\, including “To obtain data on tolerance of Myagen\,” “To determine effectiveness of drug\, Grisactin” and “To determine toxicity of drug\, Wy-713”. At the bottom of the frame is a yellow subtitle\, “they classify people.”] URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/beyond-access/ LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States CATEGORIES:Screenings,Visualizing Abolition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ias.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/017–CLS_Pre-ExistingCondition_2019_02-e1774380409661.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260423T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260423T235959 DTSTAMP:20260426T044729 CREATED:20260407T015759Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260423T172009Z UID:10970-1776902400-1776988799@ias.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Podcast Miniseries: Unmaking the Prison Image DESCRIPTION:Our new podcast launches today! Unmaking the Prison Image is a three-episode podcast series from Visualizing Abolition exploring the role documentary can play in imagining a world without prisons. Hosted by Pooja Rangan\, author of Immediations and The Documentary Audit\, and co-author with Brett Story of the forthcoming Why Look at Prisons?\, the series brings together filmmakers\, scholars\, and system-impacted artists and organizers who are rethinking how prisons are represented\, with an eye toward collective liberation. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n (Tab to skip section.)\n\n \n\n \n Episodes \n \n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n Film Pedagogy as Abolitionist Practice \n \n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Introducing Unmaking the Prison Image \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n\n \n\n\n\n\nUnmaking the Prison Image is a production of Visualizing Abolition\, a public scholarship initiative at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, directed by Gina Dent and Rachel Nelson. Podcast produced by Alex Moore\, Louise Leong\, and Pooja Rangan. Eric “Maserati E” Abercrombie is our editor and sound designer.  \n\n\n\nTheme music for Visualizing Abolition is Pray by Terri Lyne Carrington and Social Science. Our cover art features an image from Christopher Harris’s still/here. \n\n\n\nListen on Apple Podcasts\, Spotify\, SoundCloud or wherever you find your podcasts. URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/podcast-miniseries-unmaking-the-prison-image/ CATEGORIES:Visualizing Abolition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ias.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Podcast-for-web.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR