Dialogue: Isaac Julien in conversation with Angela Y. Davis, moderated by Sarah Lewis
Date and Time
Location
Wednesday, 11/11/2020
6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Angela Y. Davis activist, educator and author joins Isaac Julien to discuss the contemporary legacy of Frederick Douglass and art’s role in the ongoing struggle for economic, racial and gender justice. Davis helped to popularize the notion of the “prison industrial complex,” and urges her audiences to consider the future possibility of a world without carceral systems to forge a 21st century abolitionist movement. Moderated by Sarah Lewis, associate professor of history of art and architecture and African and African American studies at Harvard University.
Isaac Julien’s Lessons of the Hour is an immersive, ten-screen film installation and photography exhibition on the life and legacy of Frederick Douglass, the visionary African American writer, abolitionist, statesman and freed slave.
In connection with the exhibition there will be a series of community conversations in collaboration with regional and national institutions in the academic, literary and visual arts fields to welcome audiences across the country to join in a dialogue about the exhibition with a dynamic range of thinkers, artists and scholars.
We encourage you to attend the full series of events connected to Isaac Julien’s Lessons of the Hour, running through March 13, 2021. Conversations are free with registration on McEvoy Foundation for the Arts website.
Connect
McEvoy Foundation for the Arts - Website | Twitter | Facebook | YouTube
Museum of the African Diaspora - Website | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube
Angela Y. Davis - Website | Instagram | Facebook
Isaac Julien - Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook
Sarah Lewis - Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook
ATTENDING PROGRAMS
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