Welcome to our virtual screening room, dedicated to presenting cutting-edge films on the topic of “reimagining community safety”
On Saturday 5/15 between 12 and 1:30pm “Reimagining Community Safety” will host A PUBLIC SEMINAR ON COLLEGE IN PRISON.
This community conversation will be focused on a handful of new documentaries about prison education programs, including several of Evergreen’s own. It is not required to watch all of these films to participate.
FILMS
- Gilda Sheppard, Since I Been Down (2020; 105 m; Evergreen login required)
- Lynn Novick, College Behind Bars (2019; 60m x 4; Evergreen login required)
- Maya Mansour, Gateways – Soul Pancake Documentary Series (2018; x6 short films)
- Sustainability in Prisons Project, Voices of Formerly Incarcerated Partners (2020; 11m)
- The Living Catalog (Evergreen), “Lawmakers and Lawbreakers” (1974; 20m)
Note: the first two films are available through Evergreen’s library. Since I Been Down is also screening this week at the Milwaukee Film Festival. College Behind Bars is also available on Netflix and Amazon.
OPTIONAL READING
- Delia Mellis, “20 Years of Bard Behind Bars” (2019; 4 pp.)
- Gilda Sheppard & Anthony Zaragoza, “Adult Education and Cooperative Entrepreneurialism” (2018; ~5 pp.)
- Kathryn Millhorn, “The Evergreen State College’s Gateways for Incarcerated Youth Creates Change Through Education” (2021; ~2 pp.)
- Lucius Couloute, “Getting Back on Course: Educational exclusions and attainment among formerly incarcerated people” (2018, ~10 pp.)
- Michelle Brown, “Prison Iconography: Regarding the Pain of Others” (2009: focus on pp. 50-58 + 77-83 = 14 pp.)
- bell hooks, “Ecstasy: Teaching and Learning without Limits” (1994; 7 pp.)
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Winter quarter announcement for our premiere presentation:
SINCE I BEEN DOWN
Available starting Friday 2/5 at noon
ending Wednesday 2/10 at 5pm
RELATED EVENT
The Evergreen Art Lecture Series presents
Dr. Gilda Sheppard
Wednesday 2/10 from 11:30am to 1pm
+ other related materials is available here
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The invitation below provides further context….
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31 January 2021
Dear Evergreen learning communities –
You are invited one and all to a rare opportunity to watch our Evergreen-Tacoma colleague Dr. Gilda Sheppard’s long-awaited new documentary film SINCE I BEEN DOWN
This timely work of art has been accumulating an avalanche of accolades: DOCNYC 2020 Audience Favorite. Winner of the 2020 Social Justice Film Feature Documentary Gold Prize. One of Seattle Met’s top movies not to miss. Seattle Times feature by Evergreen alumn Naomi Ishisaka. Please see below for a poster with a lovely quote from Gilda.
Starting this Friday 2/5 at noon and ending Wednesday 2/10 at 5pm, the film will be exclusively available to the Evergreen community for asynchronous streaming in the “virtual screening room” that we have created for “Reimagining Community Safety.” (Please note: no recording of any type will be allowed.)
Gilda will be giving the week 6 Art Lecture 11:30-1 Weds 2/10. Stay tuned for an announcement with more details about that event.
Happy Black History Month!
