Art is “an engine for transformation.” Danny Glover in conversation with Holly J. Mitchell at CALL Festival UCLA #endmassincarceration #arttransforms

What issue do you believe is most pressing when it comes to criminal justice? Reply to this tweet below! 👇 Also, be sure to attend Day 2 of our festival - today from 11:30am to 8pm! See you there! Visit us and register at: calltoactionucla.com #EndMassIncarceration

We are live streaming again tonight! Tune in between 6 and 8 pm for live performances, our film panel, our art gallery and more! calltoactionucla.com #call2019 #calltoaction #endmassincarceration

This year's Connecting Art & Law for Liberation (CALL) festival is a call for all artists, culture workers, attorneys, legal scholar advocates & community members to imagine abolitionist futures through art and law. Join us April 16-17! Register at bit.ly/CALLtoImagine

The CALL Festival will open w/ keynote panel feat. humanitarian photog @babitapatel_35 & 2 men featured in her book, Breaking Out in Prison, Jermaine Archer & Sean Pica. Moderated by UCLA PEP's bryonn bain . Join us on Friday, April 16 at 4pm PST Register: bit.ly/CALLtoImagine

The 2021 CALL Festival begins one week from today! Next Friday’s program will include a dance performance by Rashaida Hill and a spoken word poetry piece by Diana Castro, both students in UCLA World Arts and Cultures/Dance. Link to register: bit.ly/CALLtoImagine! #CALLtoImagine

You can watch the festival NOW on Facebook livestream! facebook.com/cjpucla/videos…

You can also check out our website at uclacalltoaction.com for more information on past festivals and submitting proposals!

📢 Calling all artists, lawyers, activists, advocates and scholars! 📢 We are still seeking proposals for the 2023 Connecting Art & Law for Liberation (CALL) Festival! The deadline to submit has been extended to Feb 3. Please see bit.ly/CALLRFP2023 for more information.

📢📢CALL-ing ALL PERFORMERS!!📢📢 CALL Festival UCLA is looking for dancers, singers, poets, and all other performers to share their talents at our festival on Friday night, April 15! For more information & to apply, check out bit.ly/CALLPerformers… - deadline extended to Mon, Mar 6!

📢📢Save the date!📢📢 UCLA Law's Criminal Justice Program, Prison Law and Policy Program, and UCLA Prison Education Program are collaborating to sponsor "Connecting Art and Law for Liberation to End Mass Incarceration" art festival on April 14 & 15. Link to RSVP in bio!

We will be profiling some of our incredible performers and presenters for this year's festival. First is Abolitionist Meme-Making. This workshop will engage participants in abolitionist storytelling, a graphic design tutorial, and collectively creating memes. RSVP in our bio!

Next is The Visiting Room Project. This project is preserving and sharing filmed first-person accounts of people who are sentenced to confinement until death and have served decades in prison. RSVP in bio! #PrisonLaw #ArtandLawforChange #CriminalJustice #EndMassIncarceration

Join us for Ready Set Resist, an interactive workshop showcasing an abolitionist art curriculum developed by the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition in close collaboration with a cohort of youth aged 6 to 12. RSVP in our bio! #PrisonLaw #ArtandLawforChange #CriminalJustice

Join us for "Undanced Dances." Participants in this workshop will view a film with six of the dances written/choreographed inside the prison including a film of the written work transformed into embodied dances in sites throughout the Santa Monica civic center area. RSVP in bio!

Next is Art and the History of the Prison Industrial Complex. The workshop will provide a unique opportunity to learn about the history of visual and written art within the prison industrial complex and how to incorporate art into the fight for the end of mass incarceration.

Join us for the Bloom & Agitate workshop! The theme for this workshop is personal blooming and collective action toward ending mass incarceration. Want to learn more? Join us for the CALL Festival on April 14 & 15!

Another presenter, the Freedom Stories workshop will get participants imagining about ways we can end mass incarceration. In this workshop, facilitators will guide participants to rewrite problematic headlines using person-first language, breathing life into data. RSVP in bio!

Next is the “From Reservations to Solitary Confinement:” Artist Michael Saavedra will highlight the policies of the CDCR that criminalize Black and Brown people for reclaiming their Indigenous knowledge and exterminate Indigenous people and our culture. RSVP in bio!

Next up is The Theater of Change: a groundbreaking methodology developed as a collaboration between the Broadway Advocacy Coalition and the Center for Institutional and Social Change at Columbia Law School. Want to learn more? Join us for the CALL Festival! RSVP in bio!