FREEDOM TIME Book Launch and Performance of dances sent from Bayamon Correctional Institution, Puerto Rico and Central Michigan Correctional Facility, MI

Celebrate the launch of FREEDOM TIME, a new publication from Sming Sming Books featuring dances written by incarcerated collaborators. Join us for a reading, performances of dances from Michigan and Bayamon Correctional Institution (Puerto Rico), and a community conversation with Puerto Rican abolitionist partners Kilómetro Cero.

Performances include:

-LOCKDOWN POETICS by Justin Rovillos Monson, performed by Jay Carlon

-El Final by Yarelys M. Rossy Pérez, performed by Selina Ho

-un, dos, tres, cuatro, cinco, seis by Francesca Nadal Cruz, performed by Amy Oden

-Hora de visita and others by Amneris Manzano Díaz, Zulis G. Piñein, Neilyann Rivera

-Rodríguez, Sheyla Rosa, performed by Brianna Mims

Part of Recess’s Session program, FREEDOM TIME embodies abolition through movement, publication, and imagination.