The first event is a discussion between representatives from the Justice Ambassador Youth Council (Elias Hernandez, Mia Fox, Emanuel Daudu, and Tyler Campbell) and Manhattan District Attorney candidate Lucy Lang to discuss future policies for preventing gun violence in amongst young people as well as alternatives to incarceration for justice-involved youth. This event will take place on Friday, June 4th at 4:00pm. It will be live streamed on The Confined Arts Facebook.

​Justice Ambassadors Youth Council is a platform for 16 to 24 year olds who’ve been previously justice-involved and Youth residing in New York City, to participate in an eight week, structured classroom setting with city officials to hold conversations about challenging community issues, including poverty, trauma, racial inequality, and to co-develop policy proposals.

Join us for a roundtable discussion between Manhattan District Attorney candidate Lucy Lang, City Council District 7 candidate Keith Harris, and Pastor Isaac Scott. This conversation will delve into each candidate’s platform and explore their proposed policies for ending mass incarceration and upholding public safety in New York City. ​This event will take place on Friday, June 4th at 1:00pm. It will be live streamed on The Confined Arts Facebook.

On February 13th, Silent Cry Inc. held a community rally for Black History Month in honor of Albert L Philips Sr. and honored five law enforcement officers who are creating community through caring for community. We gave out community resources, food PPE, books, children's clothing, and more. To continue advocating on behalf of Silent Cry Inc., please contact your New York Senator Brian A. Benjamin at 212-222-7315 or email bbenjamin@nysenate.gov that you are in support of the Post-Traumatic Prison Disorder Shawanna W76337 Bill. 

When it comes to community grassroots organizing and coalition building for equity and inclusion, we must be mindful to never overlook smaller, less structurally developed advocacy groups, especially before we understand their on-the-ground impacts on the lives of people they serve. Shout out to Shawanna Vaughn and Silent Cry Inc. and The FARM, Inc H.O.L.L.A. Cobra Marching Band and more for their continued leadership and for being on the ground providing those resources that are most needed.

Follow Silent Cry Inc. on Instagram at @silent_cry_inc and on Twitter at @SilentcrySv. Go visit their website at ​https://silentcryinc.org/. 

CLAIMING THE VISUAL NARRATIVE

Claiming the Visual Narrative in Newark, NJ is a community arts project created by The Confined Arts (TCA) with the goal of developing representative imagery in Newark, a community that continues to be vulnerable to racially unjust narratives of the war on drugs.

• TCA aims to form a Newark-based grassroots Community Convening Cohort (CCC) consisting of Newark community stakeholders that will conceptualize and install a community-developed art project that represents the values and principles of Newark residents. Our methodology:
  • The CCC will also conduct participatory action research and participate in focus groups to better understand artistic needs for expression and representation within the Newark community and neighborhoods therein.
    
    
    

Overall goals for this project are: (1) to establish a process for creating and installing public art projects and will increase opportunities for community healing and relationship-building, (2) to form a cohort of community stakeholders who are committed to facilitating public arts projects that prioritizes community partnership, and (3) to develop a methodology and toolkit with recommendations for how to build community engagement through public art projects. Learn More Here

The Confined Arts has partnered with Yendor Productions, a Newark based organization that fosters hope and healing through access to the arts and cross-cultural programming, to host a community meeting where grass-roots Organizations, Artists, Activist, and other community stakeholders can discuss the role that public art and aesthetics can play in ending to the war on drugs and systemic racism in Newark. 

The Claiming the Visual Narrative Project  will be responding to the Salvation and Social Justice Coalition call to action, as we explore the role that public arts and aesthetics can play in abolishing the war on drugs in New Jersey, and specifically the Newark’s West Ward.

The Confined Arts will also be discussing media production opportunities that are available Spring 2021 for ARTISTS IN NEWARK through our partnership with the Newark Community Solution Center

Register in advance for this meeting:
https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMpf-Cqpj4iEtKaYeivkHQoCOZADUT5UYXy 

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.