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FREEDOM HARVEST

“FREEDOM HARVEST is a collective of artists and organizers who use art to engage the community on issues of incarceration, trauma, and collective resilience.In the summer of 2014 we completed a 12 week summer workshop series titled Rise of the Dandelions Part 2: Shattering Shame, Breaking Silence. The series brought art, resilience practices, and movement building to the 6 major jail sites in Los Angeles.“ 

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Related: Freedom Harvest Blog

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#SHUTDOWNADELANTO

“ In collaboration with the Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice and Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement (CIVIC), and CultureStrike, AgitArte participated in a culture-build and week of action with community members of California's Inland Empire to bring attention to the nation’s largest private immigrant detention center.”

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“Always in Season is a transmedia documentary project that makes the connection between historic lynching terrorism and racial violence today using a feature film that explores the lingering impact of lynching and a 3D, virtual reality project that gives users an experiential understanding of how to prevent mob violence.  With intimate stories of relatives of the perpetrators, victims, and others–Always in Season follows the efforts of descendants and others in communities across the United States who are seeking justice and healing as they work to acknowledge the victims, repair the damage, and reconcile.”

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“Ricardo Levins Morales describes himself as a “healer and trickster organizer disguised as an artist.” He was born into the anti-colonial movement in his native Puerto Rico and was drawn into activism in Chicago when his family moved there in 1967. He left high school early and worked in various industries, and over time began to use his art as part of his activism. This activism has included support work for the Black Panthers and Young Lords to participating in or acting in solidarity with farmers, environmental, labor, racial justice and peace movements. Increasingly he has come to see his art and organizing practices as means to address individual, collective and historical trauma.”

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“Francisco Garcia is a Youth Development Specialist through Public Allies and AmeriCorps. He is currently placed at the Tumbleweed Center for Youth Development / Casa De Sueños and is working with unaccompanied minors from Latin America. Francisco is an international artist and social entrepreneur that creates murals and artwork that are created with community and contain empowering themes about immigration, justice, faith, and Chicano culture.

Francisco is passionate about celebrating culture, creating cultural events for the community and working with diverse groups of youth throughout the country.”

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Chicago Public Art Group

“Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) have designated 2017 the "Year of Public Art" with a new 50x50 Neighborhood Arts Project, the creation of a Public Art Youth Corps, a new Public Art Festival, exhibitions, performances, tours and more -- representing a $1.5 million investment in artist-led community projects.”

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Esperanza Peace and Justice Center: MujerArtes Clay Cooperative 

“At the MujerArtes studio the women, with the guidance of experienced ceramicists, shape the clay into historic snapshots of their lives as workers, heads of households and marginalized women in a country where they have always had to struggle. International artists/cooperatives Irene Aguilar, Enedina Vasquez, Taller Leñateros and Domitila Dominguez are invited for annual cultural exchanges.Through cooperative efforts, the women create an environment where each woman is a teacher and student by way of their creativity and cultural experiences.”

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Kumba Lynx: Liberation Through Artistic Expression 

“KL is an urban arts youth development organization founded in 1996 by three women, Jaquanda Villegas, Leida Garcia-Mukwacha, and Jacinda Bullie. For two decades, alongside many of Chicago’s artists, activists, educators, and youth communities, KL has honed an arts making practice that presents, preserves and promotes Hip Hop as a tool to reimagine and demonstrate a more just world. KL’s Program Facilitators are a collective of artists, activists, educators, and healers.”

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Paper-mache and Immigration

“Ana led a community of immigrants to preserve Day of the Dead- a Mexican cultural tradition- and resist its mainstream exploitation using paper-mache. Through eight workshops, participants will research ancient, inherited documents that explain the origins of this celebrated syncretism. Together, with Casa Monarca in South Philadelphia, they will design and produce a colorful procession with the pieces created at these workshops, culminating in an authentic Day of the Dead celebration.”    

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Live Arts in Resistance (LAIR) 

“LAIR is a multidisciplinary performing arts project where artists and audience members can engage in a meaningful dialogue about innovative ideas and experimental work, where artists can reflect on the process of creating progressive art and revolutionary movements while redefining aesthetics and ethics that will decolonize our minds.”  

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“When we talk about undocumented immigrants, who are we leaving behind?

That��s a central question for poet Sonia Guiñansaca, who was undocumented for 21 years after moving from Ecuador to Harlem. In 2007, Guiñansaca came out as undocumented and began organizing migrant and undocumented communities of color. Several years later, she launched Dreaming in Ink, the first creative writing workshop for undocumented youth in New York City, and founded the UndocuMic series, an inter-generational performance space for undocumented writers.

These efforts were aimed at creating a rare space for undocumented and migrant writers to speak out about their experiences, she said. “The few stories that are written about migration, or the few poems, have always been from an outsider’s point of view, so from people who are not directly impacted, or have never been undocumented,” she said. “There’s an injustice to that.” 

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