The three symposia sessions each consist of a series of public presentations and discussions. The topics of the sessions reflect primary themes of the exhibition and each session will feature a range of perspectives, including at least one activist, one artist, and one scholar who all work on the same issue. The goal of the symposia is to draw together disparate methodologies from multiple disciplines and to explore the specific role of each perspective in making injustice visible, creating just spaces, and moving from injustice to justice. We consider the symposia to be an essential component of the larger project – one that is particularly well suited to engage important questions about process. All events are at LACE unless otherwise noted.
Sunday, October 7 / Session#1 / (Im)mobility - Prisons and the Prison Industrial Complex / 1:30-4:00pm
Participants: Ashley Hunt, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Kim McGill (Youth Justice Coalition), Melissa Burch (A New Way of Life), Roy San Filippo (Critical Resistance)
Sunday, October 28 / Session#2 / Environmental Justice and Public Health / 1:30-4:00pm
Participants: Amy Balkin, Marie Cieri, Jenna Loyd, Kim Stringfellow, Laura Barraclough, Rosemary Gibbons
Saturday, November 10 / Session#3 / Economic Justice and the Right to the City / 2:00-4:00pm
Participants: John Malpede, Mark Purcell, Ben Beach, Gilda Haas, Robert Garcia, Steve Rasmussen Cancian
November 13-20 / Tránsito(ry) Público & The Political Equator II
Los Angeles, San Diego and Tijuana
Wednesday, September 26 / Opening Reception at LACE / 7:00–9:00pm
Saturday, October 6 / Presentation: Returning Power to Neighborhoods / 2:00–4:30pm
Mark Lakeman of Portland's City Repair Project
Sunday, October 28 / Screening: A Century of Genocide in the Americas - The Residential School Experience / 1:30-1:50pm
Documentary film by Rosemary Gibbons and Dax Thomas (2002)
Saturday, November 3 / Tour: Malibu Public Beaches Safari / 11:00am–2:30pm (Meets in Malibu)
Organized by the Los Angeles Urban Rangers
Friday, November 9 / Tour: Parking Public: Parking Lots and Utopias (Hollywood) / 12:00-1:30pm
Organized by the Temporary Travel Office
Sunday, November 11 / Performance: LATWIDNO / 2:00–5:00pm
Sarah Lewison and Erin McGonigle perform "Land Access to Which Is Denied No One"
