Speakers’ Podium for Citizens and Non-Citizens | 2016
The Mobile Speakers’ Podium for Citizens and Non-Citizens, created by artist Jenny Polak, is imagined as a deployable speakers’ corner that is both functional and symbolic. The two halves of the Speakers’ Podium rely on each other. Suburban house collides with prison fence to invoke the needed voices and ever-presence of the incarcerated among the free in a country that locks up to 2 million people.
Weekly programming will feature activists, poets, student groups, prison abolition groups, performing artists, and individuals who through their practices engage with conversations around mass incarceration, immigrant detention, and citizenship.
EVENTS
Friday, October 14 • 6–7pm
Saturday, October 22 • 1–2pm
Friday, October 28 • 6–7pm
Friday, November 4 • 6–7pm
LOCATION
The Muffler Shop
359 E. Garfield Blvd., Chicago
free and open to the public