From Ashes to Beauty: Stories After Incarceration

September 27, 2023

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A SCREENING OF THE DOCUMENTARY FILM BY MABEL MALHOTRA
FOLLOWED BY A 45-MINUTE PANEL DISCUSSION

Thursday, October 12 | 7:00 p.m. Chapel First Congregational UCC | 1609 University Ave., Madison

Free. All are welcome!

From Ashes to Beauty: Stories After Incarceration, a 30-minute documentary film, highlights four success stories after incarceration. A 45-minute panel discussion with the film subjects and creators will follow the screening.

The film features individuals from across Wisconsin–Eugene Crisler’El and Anthony Cooper from Madison, Antonia Drew Norton from Milwaukee, and Vicky Harrison from the Menominee Reservation. Each person has a uniquely powerful story. Their experiences before and during incarceration inform the impactful work each are doing in their communities now.

Personal care items (shampoo, conditioner, soap, toilet tissue, puffs, or deodorant, etc.) will be collected. Donated items will be distributed to The ASHA Project, Ex-incarcerated People Organizing (EXPO), and the food pantry on the Menominee Reservation.

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People in our communities without direct experience with incarceration are often ill-informed of the negative, and catastrophic, effects on earnings and employment, physical and mental health, housing and education, and family well-being created and perpetuated by the carceral system. Through our advocacy work in local and state government, EXPO creates space, opportunity, and support for system-impacted individuals to raise their voices about the systemic and institutional harm of the incarceration. In the words of one of our organizers, EXPO’s work “shines a light of awareness and truth where others refuse to acknowledge.”

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