Call for Submissions

Request for Proposals: Connecting Art & Law for Liberation

UCLA School of Law: Connecting Art & Law for Liberation

385 Charles E Young Dr E
Los Angeles, CA 90095

Deadline

Rolling

Posted

Dec 26, 2024

UCLA is excited to announce that the CALL Festival is now seeking proposals from artists, performers, and creative organizations. The CALL Festival is taking place on April 19, 2025 at UCLA School of Law. The festival will bring together visionary artists, activists, attorneys, advocates, legal scholars, and community members to share innovative, cutting-edge collaborations at the intersection of art and law aimed at developing and disseminating new strategies to end mass incarceration. Some past workshops have included:

  • READY SET RESIST: Using Art to Nurture Abolitionist Youth
  • Community Leadership for Liberation: Transformative Justice and Art of Creative Storytelling
  • A History of Art and the Prison Industrial Complex
  • Bloom & Agitate: Reimagining Liberation through Personal Healing and Collective Action
  • Undanced Dances Through Prison Walls During a Pandemic

Application Instructions

Submission Details:

Proposal Deadline: February 16, 2025

Submission Requirements:
WORKSHOPS - 2-3 hours maximum
SHORT FILMS - 40 minutes maximum
SHOWCASES - 15 minutes maximum

Some themes that they invite artists to explore are:

  • Palestinian Liberation
  • Carceral Feminism
  • Predictive Policing/Technological Advancement in Policing
  • Surveillance
  • Prison Industrial Complex (“PIC”) Abolition
  • Reimagining Safety/Liberation
  • Queer Liberation
  • Reparations
  • Mental Health
  • Transformative Justice
  • The Failure of Prop 6 (involuntary servitude) in California and similar efforts around the country

This is not an exhaustive list.

Application can be found here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdoyvE3QpPPvvKkDcZl90QKASiDfUhSrYljxsJ-N5Ek-jtzLw/viewform

Sample Proposal can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CDps1rEK62rUmyR3Ya5qFNF0pMA9ZzBqQNjygpHgWWA/edit?usp=sharing