Date:
July 5, 2025, 5:00 – 8:00pm
Join us for the Opening Reception! We will share the first draft of Detainee written choreography by Motasem Abu Hasan and sent to us from Jenin, West Bank, Palestine. Choreographic collaborators: Mohamed Abo-Bargs (aka Barges), Tom Tsai, and Suchi Branfman. Danced by Mohamed Abo-Bargs (aka Barges) and Tom Tsai. Followed by a community conversation, Freedom Tea Ritual, and a Dance Jam open to all.
The Recess Session space will be transformed into a dance studio, abolition library, rehearsal space, an ongoing archive of community input, a bulletin board of handwritten dances by incarcerated collaborators, and an archival altar of objects created by those inside. Visitors are invited to witness rehearsals, read incarcerated collaborators' choreography, drink Freedom Time tea created by Zindagi Apothecary, and join in collective study and dreaming. Regular public events—performances, community conversations, dance jams, printmaking workshops, letter-writing gatherings with Dignity Not Detention, and prison abolition trainings with Critical Resistance — will unfold across the seven-week installation.