
Connecting ART & LAW FOR LIBERATION
a CALL TO ACTION to end Mass Incarceration
On April 16-17, 2021 join artists, activists, attorneys, advocates and scholars for a Virtual Conference featuring innovative collaborations at the intersection of ART and the LAW! Build community, re-energize and play, while developing visionary strategies to end mass incarceration — with participants from college campuses, communities and carceral spaces.
Proposal Due: December 21, 2021
A Collaboration between the UCLA Prison Education Program,
UCLA School of Law’s Criminal Justice Program and the Prison Law & Policy Program
I. CONTENT – proposals should focus on one or more of the following:
A. Defund Movements - National/international and/or UC/campus specific work B. Abolition - What does it mean? What can it look like? How do we get there? C. Restorative and Transformative Justice – in theory and practice
II. FORM – proposals should utilizing one of the following approaches:
A. Virtual Performance B. Interactive Workshops C. Film/Video Screenings
III. REQUIREMENTS – proposals should include the following:
A. Virtual Performance – a WORD document of no longer than two pages that includes:
- Contact – name, email, phone, affiliation
- Bio – a short one for each artist & any link to available online work (50-100 words)
- Time – duration of presentation (no more than 10 minutes)
- Form – how the presentation will be organized or structured
- Summary – how the work relates to criminal justice (100-200 words)
- Experience – any you have with virtual performances (less than 100 words)
B. Interactive Workshops – a WORD document of no longer than two pages that includes:
- Contact – name, email, phone, affiliation
- Title – short and descriptive (10 words maximum)
- Bio – a short one for each facilitator (50-100 words)
- Time – duration of presentation (between 60-90 minutes)
- Materials – whatever a participant might need to participate
- Abstract – a description (300-500 words) including:
- Theme & how will you link it to art & the law?
- What will be created & what plans do you have for the art made in this workshop?
- How you intend to utilize the virtual setting
- Relevant experience
- How will you engage varying levels of artistic, teaching, or research experience?
- How might an artist and legal advocate/scholar educate each other in yourworkshop?
C. Film/Video Screenings – a WORD document no longer than one page, including:
- Contact – name, email, phone, affiliation
- Bio – a short one for each facilitator + any links to your work online (50-100 words)
- Synopsis – 100-200 words, including how it relates to the themes above, and duration (nomore than 40 minutes)
Send proposals and questions to: CALLtoActionUCLA@gmail.com by December 21, 2021. Details on the 2019 CALL Festival are on our website at: www.calltoactionucla.com