In 2007-2008 Carolina Performing Arts is facilitating a year long conversation on issues of the death penalty and the criminal justice system, using the arts to engage in dialogue.

Carolina Performing Arts received one of eight grants from the Association of Performing Arts Presenters Creative Campus Innovation Grant Program to facilitate a year-long project Criminal/Justice: The Death Penalty Examined. This will be a campus-wide exploration of the events and issues that lead to capital punishment in our society.

Through collaborations with faculty, students and staff in departments and centers across campus, the project will feature performances, photography, art exhibits, historical exhibits, films, student activities, lectures and discussions. This website will provide updates, information and resources throughout the year. These thematic programs are in addition to the 2007-08 Carolina Performing Arts series.

We will be exploring issues of power, justice, society, the individual and the state, equality, and how our actions as individuals and as a society contribute to the path that leads to the cycle of crime and punishment. The arts will provide the foundation to explore stories, engage in perspectives, and hold a balanced dialogue examining questions and our own impact on the events that result in state sanctioned executions.

For more information on the project contact Reed Colver at:

creativecampus@unc.edu
(919) 843-1833

Click here to read the press release about the project.

This project is made possible in part by a grant form the Association of Performing Arts Presenters Creative Campus Innovations Grant Program, a component of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

(photo copyright: Scott Langley)