Alternative Presenting: A Sharing Circle on the Pros and Cons with Chris Brown & Ron Burning

Join us for a conversation about the Pros and Cons Program as part of the Art of Visiting - National Indigenous Performers Gathering. 

The Pros and Cons Program helps create music in prisons to support healing, restorative justice, victim support, and education. Participants build better relationships with themselves and others, obtaining practical knowledge and skills across platforms of music, engineering and computer literacy. As the works were produced in prison, we take the time to note that Indigenous people make up 4.5% of Canada’s general population, while accounting for 31% of provincial / territorial custody cases and 29% of people federally incarcerated. Colonization has continued its repercussions in the form of intergenerational trauma that leads to these rates. Can we understand these statistics as real lives? As brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, daughters and sons? This ultimately exposes itself beyond a strictly Indigenous issue, but one everyone in Canada must work to understand.