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Closing Gathering: Performance of dances sent from Bayamon Correctional Institution, Puerto Rico and Auburn Correctional Facility, NY

Dancing Through Prison Walls

Date:
August 9, 2025, 6:00 – 9:00pm

Join us for the final public event of FREEDOM TIME, sharing choreographies from Auburn State Prison (New York) and Bayamon Correctional Institution (Puerto Rico). Performers include Bernard Brown and Kenji Igus, bringing forth the words and movements of Raúl Reyes Chalas, Gadiel Falcón Rodríguez, Bartholomew Crawford, and Ellis Douglas. The evening closes with a Freedom Tea Ritual, a conversation, and a collective dance jam.