7:30pm screening, 7pm doors.

Join us for the debut of New Suns, a documentary about the graduation of the second University Without Walls (UWW) Stateville cohort. The UWW program inside Stateville is a collaboration between the Prison + Neighborhood Arts/Education Project and Northeastern Illinois University.

The graduation ceremony took place inside Stateville prison’s auditorium building, featured keynote remarks by Fred Moten, Professor of Performance Studies at New York University, and special remarks by Gina Dent, co-founder of Visualizing Abolition. The ceremony also featured a guest musical performance by Chance the Rapper. Graduating students were Michael Bell, Reginald BoClair, Darnell Lane, Juan Luna, and Daniel Perkins.

The event will conclude with a discussion between the documentary creators, student’s loved ones, and PNAP members that helped plan the graduation ceremony. In addition to New Suns, we’ll share some words from the graduating students and a short film about the celebration held the day after the graduation ceremony called Building Abolition Feminism Now: A Chicago PNAP Function.

7:30 - 7:50: Mingling
7:50 - 8:00: Screening of New Suns
8:00 - 8:05: Screening of Reimagine this Space
8:05 - 8:10 Screening of Building Abolition Feminism NOW: A Chicago PNAP Function
8:10 - 8:20: Remarks from 2nd UWW Cohort
8:20 - 9:00: Discussion With Filmmakers, Graduation Organizers, and Loved Ones
9:00 - 9:30: Mingling