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East Liberty and Justice for ALL
January 20, 2017 @ 5:30 pm - 9:00 pm
A Celebration of Diversity on the Eve of the Women’s March on Washington
Let’s make things together. Eat together. Sing together. March together. Learn how to support each other and empower those who have been marginalized – especially during the recent Presidential campaign – people of color, immigrants, women, the LGBT community, Muslims, people with disabilities and survivors of sexual assault.
Donations will be accepted to support the work of our artists and our social justice partners, The ACLU and Thomas Merton Center.
5:30 to 7:00 pm Social Justice Art-Making, Education and Organizing
Make a poster for the Solidarity March (at 7 pm). We will hand these off to folks going to the Million Women March the next day. Paint a mural. Write letters. Learn how to contact and talk to your members of Congress. Eat tacos (from Blue Sparrow food truck) and desserts from the bake sale (yes, you can contribute to the bake sale too, if you’d like!). We will add participating organizations to this list as they are confirmed.
6:00 to 7:00 pm Poetry Reading by Words Without Walls
Words Without Walls is a creative partnership between the Chatham MFA Creative Writing Program, Allegheny County Jail, State Correctional Institution Pittsburgh, and Sojourner House, a residential drug and alcohol treatment facility for mothers and their children.
7:00 to 7:30 pm Solidarity on the Square March
We will gather on the Whitfield side of the building, across from Ace Hotel, and march through East Liberty, raising our posters, voices and giant puppets in solidarity.
7:30 to 9:00 pm Peace, Love and All That Jazz Performances
“Art is a weapon in the struggle for ideas, the class struggle.” — Amiri Baraka
Anqwenique Wingfield and her band, Kinectic
Kinetic performs songs immersed in the tropical sounds and rhythms of West Africa, blended with contemporary jazz and R&B. ‘World of Wonder’, the debut CD, is available on iTunes, Amazon, and CDBaby.
GizeLxanath and Ben Barson with the Afro-Yaqui Music Collective
Art is Never Neutral in the struggle for a new world. Partners Ben and Gizelxanath combine the rhythms of Africa, Asia, and the Yaqui people to imagine a world beyond mass incarceration and ecocide — a world where life fits.
PARTICIPATING SOCIAL JUSTICE ORGANIZATIONS and SUPPORTERS
This list will be regularly updated as confirmations of participation are received.
