Screening One Million Experiments
February 18, 2025
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Location
Student Center East, Tower Room 605
Address
750 S. Halsted Street, Select
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Download iCal FileJoin us for a performance, screening, and interactive conversation with Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger about their short film, One Million Experiments, and the new liberatory possibilities already in the making all around us.
Dr. Beth Richie, Professor of Black Studies and Criminology, Law and Justice, will moderate the post-screening conversation with the filmmakers and local organizers.
Also join us at 3pm in SCE Room 613 for the Experiment Gathering: Get connected with campus groups and local organizations working toward community safety without police!
Hosted by the Department of Black Studies and co-sponsored by UIC Arab American Cultural Center; Asian American Resource and Cultural Center; Black Cultural Center; Criminology, Law, and Justice; Disability Cultural Center; Gender and Sexuality Center; Gender and Women's Studies; Global Asian Studies; Global Middle East Studies; Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy; Latin American and Latino Studies; Latino Cultural Center; Social Justice Initiative; Sociology; and Women's Leadership and Resource Center.
About the film:
One Million Experiments is a film exploring how we define and create wellness and reduce harm in a world without police and prisons. Built out of a podcast and curated collection of community-based safety projects created in the midst of the 2020 uprising, One Million Experiments remixes longform interviews with movement workers across the world who have created community-based safety projects. 1ME expands our ideas about what keeps us safe, celebrates the work already happening to build solutions that are grounded in transformation instead of punishment, and invites you to participate in the joyous work of liberation. We don’t need one answer to how we get free–we need one million experiments.
COVID Safety:
UIC does not require masking; however, we are asking that all attendees wear a mask. This is an accessibility measure for chronically ill/immunocompromised people and those living interdependently with them. Black Studies will have extra KN95 and surgical masks on hand the day of the event. During the reception, attendees will be able to unmask briefly to eat refreshments, but we ask that attendees seated for the lecture and Q&A wear a mask if this is accessible to them.
Accessibility & Location Details:
- CART captioning will be available.
- SCE Tower Rooms 605 and 613 are located on the 6th floor of Student Center East (SCE) Tower and are accessible by elevator. Directional signs will be posted on the day of the event.
- SCE is near the Blue Line, Roosevelt (#12) bus, Harrison (#7) bus, Halsted (#8) bus, and Taylor (#157) bus. There is a drop-off area on Halsted Street, and the Halsted and Taylor Street Parking Structure (760 W. Taylor Street) is located across the street at Halsted & Polk. More information on parking and public transit
- SCE has all-gender and accessible restrooms available, though many do not have automatic doors.
- Contact blst@uic.edu with any other access questions or requests.
Date posted
Feb 3, 2025
Date updated
Feb 3, 2025