Supporting the national, pop-up tour of The BOX, to prison adjancent communities. This play, based on true stories of resistance to solitary confinement, was written by Sarah Shourd, a survivor.
Leader
JD Schramm .
Location
890 Belle Ave San Rafael, CA 94901
The pandemic has invited all of us into a space of deeper empathy and understanding of the harmful impacts of isolation and, by extension, prison. Join us and help launch the End of Isolation Tour (EIT) 2021. Grantee Sarah Shourd and her team—with support from the Art for Justice Fund, the Pulitzer Center, and individual donors—are creating a national, pop-up tour of The BOX, a play based on true stories of resistance to solitary confinement and written by Shourd, a survivor.
The tour will be organized in partnership with Unlock the Box and local campaigns across the country, with the goal of elevating, supporting, and maximizing their impact. Through theater, traveling visual art, and artistic ritual, EIT will create a space for collective healing. Each performance will be followed by a survivor-led healing circle focusing on imagining ways to address and repair harm in line with transformative justice. While we had hoped to hit the road right after our opening in Marin County California, COVID-19 has changed our plans. We are delaying the wider national tour until 2022, but can now expand that tour to visit more communities, with your help.
With gratitude to our lead sponsor, the Pulitzer Center (and so many other generous donors), we have certainty the tour will take place. This crucial final step of the funding will allow us to cover the remaining costs of the tour. Once funds are in hand we will:
The End of Isolation Tour is more than theater alone; our tour will also create a space for collective healing. It is a process of building, strengthening, and knitting together multiracial communities across the country—through theater, traveling visual art, and artistic ritual. After each performance we will hold conversations, in circle format, to process the play and support their transformative justice work. To quote Jon Comstock from Fayetville, Arkansas, EIT will “act like a booster-shot that will energize people doing the work, infuse the community with energy for action, and help us to the finish line.”
