Favianna Rodriguez will talk about her art practice creating powerful and unapologetic art pieces and will share snippets of Migration is Beautiful, the recent documentary highlighting her creative projects. Rodriguez is the Artistic Director of CultureStr/ke, a national network of professional and emerging artists, social change experts, and creative producers who seek to support the national and global arts movement around immigration. 

The documentary “The House I Live In” offers a poignant look inside U.S. drug policy and its far-reaching effects. Immediately following the screening, audience members are invited to join an improvisational brainstorm session on racialized mass incarceration & immigration inspired by techniques from Theater of the Oppressed. This participatory activity will be led by distinguished artists, image theater experts and scholars: Bryonn Bain, Lani Guinier, Tim Mitchell, Gerald Torres, and Tricia Rose.