The Justice Fleet is a mobile network of experiences that foster community healing through art, play, and dialogue. Each exhibit engages community members in discussions about implicit and explicit bias, social justice, and empathy.
The DU visit will include an interactive exhibit, workshops, panels, class visits, student showcase and keynote address. Details are posted below as finalized.
RADICAL FORGIVENESS EXHIBIT
is based on the profound notion that we don’t have to live with fear, pain, hostility, or injustice. That we have control over the way we perceive, understand, act, and react in our world. In a socially unjust world, we experience moments that require small and large acts of repair. Radical forgiveness is a fluid and deliberate process that allows us to repair the tears, rips, and gaping wounds that impede us from being better versions of ourselves and bettering our world.
Visitors begin with a display on Radical Forgiveness and then engage in an art-activism project called the Forgiveness Quilt where they share their own biases and seek forgiveness.
The interactive exhibit will be open the following times, locations TBA soon. Please allow ~30 minutes for the experience.
- Tues, 3/5: 8.30-11.45am and 2-6pm, at TBA
- Wed, 3/6: 8.30-10am and 1.30-5pm, at TBA
- Thurs, 3/7: 8.30-10am and 4-6pm, at TBA
No RSVP or registration is necessary; drop by!
RADICAL IMAGINATION WORKSHOPS
focus on creating a space for people to imagine a just world where liberation and freedom from oppression are possible. Participants work in groups to create their just worlds from the available reclaimed goods, craft items, and miscellaneous art supplies. Then, as a facilitated large group, we will talk about their worlds, the societal structures they built, how those structure challenge or perpetuate social problems, and ways we can begin changing our world. The just cities and conversations will be documented and photographed and become a part of the exhibit’s display to encourage more dialogue, questions, and imagination.
This engaging ~90minute workshop is available during the following times:
- Tues, 3/5: 8.30-11.45am and 2-6pm
- Wed, 3/6: 8.30-10am and 1.30-5pm
- Thurs, 3/7: 8.30-10am and 4-6pm
Classes, student organizations, staff/faculty groups of 10+ can request private workshops during these windows by emailing cfoust@du.edu with desired dates/times and group details.
Public session schedule will be posted soon for RSVP.
FACULTY PANEL (TUES PM)
Radical Forgiveness, Imagination, and Justice in our Teaching
sponsored by the Office of Teaching & Learning
Tuesday, 5 March, 12-1.50pm | Sie Complex Forum (1020)
Panel including Ramona Beltrán (GSSW), Taisha McMickens (CAHSS), Nancy Wadsworth (CAHSS), Robin Walker Sterling (Law), Valentina Irtube-LaGrave (OTL), Scott Leutenegger (Engineering), and Erika Trigoso (NSM) reflect on the art of teaching, especially toward justice, and as integrating radical forgiveness and imagination. Dr Johnson will be guest respondent.
Lunch provided; advance RSVP requested (open shortly), as space is limited.
STUDENT PROJECT SHOWCASE (WED PM)
Wed, 3/6, 5-6.30pm in Sturm Hall north lobby (outside Lindsay Aud.)
Participants in the winter COMN 2000: Identities in Dialogue course sections will display their group projects, including information and activities.
VISITING SCHOLAR KEYNOTE (WED PM)
Humanizing Equity in the Capitalist Race for Diversity and Inclusion
by Marsico Visiting Scholar Dr Amber Johnson
Wednesday, 3/6, 6.30-8pm | Lindsay Auditorium (Sturm 281)
free, open to the public | campus map, hourly parking and transit info
Dr Johnson, Ast Professor of Communication at St Louis University, is an award-winning scholar and teacher whose work merges qualitative, rhetorical, critical, and arts-based methods, theories, and contexts. Their numerous projects advance our understandings of identity, protest, social justice, performance and aesthetics, through deep and creative engagements with communities within and off campus. As an artist, Amber works with metals, paint, photography, recycled and reclaimed goods, and music. As a creator of The Justice Fleet, Dr Johnson wanted to experiment with mobile museums and social justice inquiry, ethnography, and art activism to address social injustice and urban engagement. Dr Johnson’s forthcoming book, A Great Inheritance, follows five children who have chosen to dismantle the gender binary and emancipate humans from the genetic economy.
Sponsored by Communication Studies and Gender & Women’s Studies (CAHSS), Inclusion & Equity Education (CLIE), Office of the Chancellor, Colorado Women’s College, Marsico Visiting Scholars Program, Office of Diversity & Inclusion, IRISE
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