Performing Arts
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2020-2021 Inter[SECTOR] Programs
Inter[SECTOR] is the CAC’s three-year multidisciplinary arts programming centering cross-sector engagements with the fields of carceral justice, healthcare, and the environment. During the 20-21 season Inter[SECTOR] examines the impact of mass incarceration on our community through performances, workshops, and virtual conversations created and led by women and non-binary artists alongside individuals impacted by the in justices in the prison system. Explore these programs and more, below!
Contemporary Arts Center
The Prison Music Project: Hosted by Zoe Boekbinder, Featuring Ani DiFranco, Princess Shaw, BL Shirelle, and Guests
A CAC Inter[SECTOR] ProgramMarch 26, 2021 to March 28, 2021
The Prison Music Project is a collective of artists — inside and outside of prison — who share stories that catalyze a shift to a form of justice that focuses on healing rather than punishment.
The collective began in 2010 when incarcerated artists and writers at New Folsom Prison began to collaborate with volunteer teaching artist Zoe Boekbinder. The resulting thirteen songs, written by the collective and performed by a diverse cast, were released on the debut album Long Time Gone via Righteous Babe Records in June 2020.
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Contemporary Arts Center
"The Wait Room" by Jo Kreiter and Flyaway Productions
A CAC Inter[SECTOR] ProgramSeptember 24, 2021 to September 26, 2021
The centerpiece of the CAC's Inter[SECTOR] 2021 programs, Jo Kreiter’s The Wait Room is a site-specific dance and aerial performance-based in the stories and experience of incarceration. Utilizing a large, hydraulic stage shaped as a clock dial, The Wait Room exposes the physical, psychic, and emotional burden of prison for women with incarcerated loved ones.
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Explore the CAC's ongoing performing artist residencies and other performance-related programs, below!
Contemporary Arts Center
"Let's Talk About It" by The Graduates Rising - A Work In Progress
October 28, 2020As part of its Gender (in)Justice series of programming, the CAC presents a virtual table reading of Let's Talk About It, a work-in-progress play by Ausettua AmorAmenkum and The Graduates Rising, a New Orleans-based performing ensemble and CAC Artists-In-Residence.
The performance, recorded inside the CAC's Black Box Theater, will be available for your viewing pleasure on the CAC's YouTube channel at 7 pm CDT on Wednesday, October 28.
The Graduates Rising - CAC Artist Residency
The Graduates, founded in 2012, is a New Orleans-based performing arts organization comprised of former members of the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women (LCIW) Drama Club. Current ensemble members include: Taece Defillo, Carry Emerson, Jackie Hall, Ivy Matthis and Fox Rich.