Contemporary Arts Center Hosts Special Guests For A Book Signing, Film Screening, and Conversation About Carceral Justice. Fox and Rob Richardson, of the Academy Award nominated documentary TIME, Dive Deep into the Untold Story of the Incarceration that Separated Them, the Love that Sustained Them, and the Miracles that Brought them Back Together in New Book Tour and Film Screenings.
The Contemporary Arts Center is pleased to host the book signing and Louisiana film premiere of The Academy Award nominated, full-length documentary, TIME, and to launch a statewide Families, Faith, and Fairness in Sentencing tour on Tuesday February 7th, from 6-9pm. Fox and Rob Richardson will be present for book signings as well as for a Q & A after the film screening. The talk will be moderated by special guest Sister Helen Prejean (https://www.sisterhelen.org/), a leading voice for death penalty abolition and author of Dead Man Walking and River of Fire.The event is FREE and open to the public, however, due to limited seating, pre-registration is highly encouraged. Participants can also pre-order a book during registration or purchase one at the event. The CAC is hosting this event as a prelude to their upcoming arts exhibition, "Undoing Time" and as part of their INTER[SECTOR] Initiative, a program of multidisciplinary visual and performing arts presentations focused on art's social impact and cross-sector engagements between artists and civic leaders in the community. Despite its worldwide acclaim and due to COVID, TIME (2020) has never premiered in Louisiana. Through this thoughtfully designed 4-city tour, the viewing of the film will be combined with a panel discussion and Q & A with the film’s subjects and authors of Time 2023. Fox and Rob Rich will take participants into a deeper discussion of how faith, strength and community organizing not only brought Rob home, but has served to free countless others. And their fight continues.
The film showings and book launch takes place during Black History Month, and starts at The Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, February 7th, where attendees can purchase the new book, have it signed by the authors, view the film, and participate in and engaging Q & A with the authors and one of the leading voices on carceral justice. The tour will continue to Baton Rouge and Shreveport.The significance of these cities goes beyond the geographic coverage of the state by beginning at the entry point for slavery in Louisiana – and the country – of New Orleans, and ending in Shreveport, the last stand of the Confederacy in the Civil War. Baton Rouge provides a focus on the heart of legislative power for the state. The showings will also provide an opportunity for participants to learn about how prosecutors play an integral role in remedying some of the harms of the criminal justice system.
Time amplifies the multitude of problems underlying the criminal legal system, the sentencing laws, and harms within carceral institutions while highlighting the strength of black families through this powerful story of fortitude, faith and love.
The Academy Award nominated full-length documentary, TIME (2020), tells the story of Fox and Rob Rich’s relentless fight for each other and justice, despite America’s broken prison system, while its literary companion, TIME (2023), tells the untold story of the love that kept them together when incarceration kept them apart.As Rob survived two decades at America’s bloodiest penitentiary and Fox raised their sons solo, they never stopped fighting for Rob’s freedom and for their futures against the statistical odds. This tour is to help raise awareness that Louisiana is still the largest incarcerator in the world, to discuss why that is, and to discuss what we can do about it.
The upcoming CAC arts exhibition, “Undoing Time: Art and Histories of Incarceration”, considers the foundational roots of confinement from an art historical perspective to better understand the fact that today’s mass incarceration crisis is centuries in the making. The exhibition explores how images throughout time contribute to entrenched cultural beliefs associated with today’s carceral system.
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