Freedom Rising: From Emancipation to Incarceration

Castle of our Skins, in partnership with the Museum of African American History, presents: Freedom Rising: From Emancipation to Incarceration. This concert event is a musical and dramatic exploration into the prison system of the United States. Castle of Our Skins, an innovative chamber ensemble, will use narration, poetry, and music to examine incarceration systems, from the Jim Crow era of the 1800s and 1900s to the America of today. The program will showcase inspiring and emotionally packed music with song arrangements, improvisations, and original works by Jeffrey Mumford, Frederick Rzewski, Ed Bland, Yusef Lateef, Reneé C. Baker, and Anthony Green. Narrators will weave in facts, personal accounts, and quotations concerning incarceration systems that fill the pages of American history. The spoken words support the artistic beauty that lies within the souls of prisoners, as revealed through their own poetry. Although dark fates and overwhelming circumstances are prevelant in the words, Freedom Rising also reveals reasons for hope: needed reform is coming, perhaps slowly, but surely.

"Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control — in prison or jail, on probation or parole — than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began."

~ Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Location:
Museum of African American History (Meeting House), 46 Joy Street, Boston, MA

Date:
Thursday, June 9th, 2016

Schedule:
6 - 6:45PM: Pre-reception with food and education stations
7 - 8:15PM: Concert Presentation
8:15 - 8:45PM: Post-concert reception and discussion

Price:
General Admission: $5
Seniors (62+) & Youth (13 - 17): $3
MAAH Members: Free

Ticket Website:
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