Remembering Attica: Legacy of a Prison Revolt

“Remembering Attica: Legacy of a Prison Revolt" was a series of events commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 1971 Attica Prison uprising to raise awareness about its relevance to the current outbreak of state violence against communities of color.

Click here to check for upcoming events as part of this series.

Made possible with support from the Wesleyan University Departments of Music, Film Studies, Theater, and History, the Art Studio Program of the Art and Art History Department, the African American Studies Program, the Science in Society Program, the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, the Center for Pedagogical Innovation, the Center for the Arts, the Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life, and the Provost’s Equity Advisory Board. Special thanks to the Healing Justice and Prison Watch Programs of the American Friends Service Committee in New York and New Jersey.

Image: artwork by Ojore Lutalo.
2021
September

2021

September

Gallery Tours with Artist - Behind Enemy Lines: The Prison Art of Ojore Lutalo [DATE CHANGE]
Wednesday, September 22, 2021 at 6:00pm
South Gallery, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery
Artist Ojore Lutalo will give tours of “Behind Enemy Lines: The Prison Art of Ojore Lutalo," an exhibition of his prison protest art, on display through Sunday, October 17, 2021 as part of the series "Remembering Attica: Legacy of a Prison Revolt."
Echoes of Attica
Sunday, September 12, 2021 at 3:00pm
Ring Family Performing Arts Hall
Echoes of Attica, a play about the 1971 Attica Prison revolt, will receive a world premiere for Wesleyan students, faculty, and staff as performed by formerly incarcerated actors and musicians to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the uprising, and to raise awareness about its relevance to the current outbreak of state violence against communities of color. The cast also features Wesleyan Assistant Professor of the Practice in Theater Edward Torres, who spent ten years working with men on death row while co-founding the award-winning theater company Teatro Vista in Chicago.