This November we organized a Justice Parade for Incarcerated Youth as part of the Performing Statistics project in Richmond, VA. We designed the parade to function as a mobile, people-powered art exhibit featuring hundreds of pieces of art made by incarcerated youth: parade participants wore shirts and held posters silk screened by the teens, carried huge photo banners of the teen’s portraits, and worked with musicians to perform protest chants that the teens wrote. The parade began with a rally at the General Assembly Building, where we lit up our “PRISONS DON’T WORK” LED light banner, and marched the teen’s artwork down Richmond’s main st, blocking traffic for two miles during the height of rush hour.
It was such an amazing experience...only made possible by the brilliant brains and creative hands of so so so so so many people! Thank you to all! #prisonsdontwork #RiseforYouth #performingstatistics