Dear friends, We’d like to invite our allies and partners in the DC area to view a powerful installation from artist and filmmaker Kristin Adair featuring juvenile lifers that starts on Thursday at Union Market. Members of the CFSY staff will join the artist at the exhibit from 4-6 pm on Friday, June 22nd to chat with visitors and answer questions about DC law and the CFSY’s work. Kristin’s project, titled CELL 17, is part of the larger international arts and dialogue festival By The People, taking place across the region from June 21st – June 24th. By The People will feature art installations, pop-up performances, and free admission to over a dozen satellite locations. CELL 17 is a multimedia installation that brings viewers inside the experience of confinement in a prison cell. A collaboration between the artist and several men from DC who received life sentences as children and have been incarcerated for more than 20 years, the installation features audio and video projections layering archival materials and memories from the “juvenile lifers.” They reflect on their decades-long journeys behind bars and their transformation into self-educated men who are preparing to return to society as adults. Because of a recent change in the law, all of the narrators are now eligible to petition local courts for resentencing and release. The installation will also invite viewers to “meet” and engage with other currently incarcerated juvenile lifers from DC through their images, handwritten letters, poetry and more, and features the work of collaborator Halim A. Flowers from his new collection of poetry #UNCHAINABLE. HOW TO SEE CELL 17 June 21st-24th, 10 am – 6 pm daily Union Market 1309 5th Street NE Washington, DC 20002 Again, members of the CFSY staff will join the artist at the exhibit from 4-6 pm on Friday, June 22nd. Hope to see you there!