On the Eve of Abolition

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Dates:	Thursday, October 31, 2024 - Sunday, November 3, 2024
Hours:	7:30 PM
Ages:	Teens, Adults
In/Outdoor:	Indoor
Cost:	see below
Category:	Theater & Shows

'In this bilingual, multimedia masterpiece, puppets, video projection, and miniature sets collide to transport audiences to a future where prison abolitionists have created the conditions to end the prison industrial complex in the liberated lands formerly known as the U.S. and Mexico.

Set in 2047, this performance imagines abolition camps, formerly incarcerated people, families, and organizers working together in a fight to end all prisons, all rooted in the realities of modern-day United States and Puerto Rico.

Developed and performed by the visionary artists of Papel Machete, this project centers on community engagement with abolitionist organizations and currently and formerly incarcerated people and their families in an effort to create a vision of an abolitionist future.

On the Eve of Abolition offers pathways to engage in real-time organizing toward the abolition of the prison industrial complex.

Through a partnership with Prison Radio, Papel Machete has engaged with political prisoners and currently incarcerated artists and accessed materials created by incarcerated people in Prison Radio’s archives.

They are also partnering with Sisters Unchained, a Boston-based program engaging women/femme-identified and trans youth with family members in the carceral system.'

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WEBSITE

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artsemerson.org/events/on-the-eve-of-abolition/

LOCATION

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559 Washington Street, Boston, MA, 02111 map