Respair Production & Media, New York, NY (2025)

02/14/2025

CHICAGO - The upcoming screening of our film will have an “experiment gallery” beforehand! You can connect with a variety of campus and community organizations that are reimagining safety, justice, and collective thriving. Come at 3p so you have enough time to check them out!

🎥 One Million Experiments is our film exploring how we define and create safety in a world without police and prisons. Abolition doesn’t have easy answers, and we’ll need at least one million experiments to figure it out.

After the screening, we will be speaking with Damon, Daniel, and Martine Caverl from UMedics, hosted by Prof. Beth Richie!

This screening and gallery of abolitionist experiments will be on February 18th at Student Center East, Tower Room 605 at the University of Illinois Chicago. Experiment Gallery at 3p, screening at 3:30p.

Hit the link in our bio to RSVP. Tickets are always free 🎟️

02/06/2025

CHICAGO - The upcoming screening of our film will have an “experiment gallery” beforehand! You can connect with a variety of campus and community organizations that are reimagining safety, justice, and collective thriving. Come at 3p so you have enough time to check them out!

After the screening of our film One Million Experiments, we will be speaking with Damon, Daniel, and Martine Caverl from UMedics, hosted by Prof. Beth Richie!

This screening and gallery of abolitionist experiments will be on February 18th, 3p at Student Center East, Tower Room 605 at the University of Illinois Chicago.

🎥 One Million Experiments is our film exploring how we define and create safety in a world without police and prisons. Abolition doesn’t have easy answers, and we’ll need at least one million experiments to figure it out.

Hit the link in our bio to RSVP. Tickets are always free 🎟️

02/05/2025

This February, commit to learning Black history. Join our Hazel’s Seeds listening club and learn collectively! Hosted by Respair’s Damon and Daniel, and in partnership with , you’ll get to meet current EJ practitioners and learn more about the work happening today.

The main six-session listening club, called Hazel’s Garden, will meet weekly starting April 8 to discuss an episode of our podcast Help This Garden Grow. You can join our group, or you can start your own! Start your own club, called a “Community Garden” to do your own collective learning around the docuseries.

Be sure to follow Hazel’s org for current EJ work!

Hit the link in bio to sign up, or to get materials to start your own!

02/05/2025

This February, commit to learning Black history. Join our Hazel’s Seeds listening club and learn collectively! Hosted by Respair’s Damon and Daniel, and in partnership with , you’ll get to meet current EJ practitioners and learn more about the work happening today.

The main six-session listening club, called Hazel’s Garden, will meet weekly starting April 8 to discuss an episode of our podcast Help This Garden Grow. You can join our group, or you can start your own! Start your own club, called a “Community Garden” to do your own collective learning around the docuseries.

Be sure to follow Hazel’s organization for current EJ work!

Hit the link in bio to sign up, or to get materials to start your own!

01/10/2025

Join us for a free historic streaming event on January 15th! Rhythm, Rhyme, & Resilience was a gathering in late 2024 that we here at Respair took part in and recorded.

This event features spoken word, jazz and blues, and words of wisdom. The event honors our ancestors, commemorates Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birthday and Dream, and uplifts the Black community.

Respair’s Dame and Kiss were honored to be a part of the event. We opened the space with some call and response, and shared the work we’ve been doing to further the abolitionist vision across the US.

Recorded at the historic Rosa’s Lounge in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood, the multi-genre, multi-generational program is a love letter from Chicago to uplift the Black community and family nationwide.

If you’re in Chicago, join in person to watch with the cast and crew!

DETAILS:
Rhythm, Rhyme, & Resilience
Wednesday, January 15
Carter G. Woodson Library
95th & Western
🏃‍➡️5:30 pm in person
💻 6:00 pm virtual
⭐️Free⭐️

Check out the line-up:
🌳 Sylvia Ewing: Multimedia producer, poet, PBS host, & HistoryMaker
🌳 Billy Branch: Grammy-nominated blues harmonica player and hip hop co-producer
🌳 The Sons of Blues: Voted Best Blues Band by Chicago’s Reader
🌳 avery r. young: Poet and performer
🌳 Shawn Wallace: Musician & composer
🌳 Afrika Porter: Activist, speaker, business owner, filmmaker & teacher
🌳 Respair Media: Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger
🌳 Emily Hooper Lansana: Storyteller, arts administrator, & educator
🌳 Michelle Duster: Author, public historian
🌳 Isaac Stanley: Yogi and community elder
🌳 Tonyisha Harris: Youth climate activist/creative, The Nature Conservancy

🎟️ Tickets are free! Snag some at the link in our bio.

11/14/2024

So grateful for our workshop in New Orleans! We dug deep into how humanizing, subject-to-subject dialogue can transform our collective futures and strengthen our movements.

Talking Toward Repair: Dialogue, Dialectics and Liberation was our workshop at Tulane University exploring how journalists and media-makers can create a humanizing practice built on dialectical dialogue.

📚Book us! We are available to lead a teach-in exploring how we create a practice of media-making that supports radical transformation, and the unique importance of media in the fight for a liberatory future.

Find out more at respairmedia.com/book-respair 📚

11/11/2024

It was truly a pleasure showing our film at the Chicago Humanities Festival! Our conversation afterwards featured Maira Khwaja from the Invisible Institute. We are grateful to the entire festival for continuing to make prison and police abolition a conversation, one that will be important more and more in the coming four years.

One Million Experiments is a film that explores what it means to create safety in a world without police and prisons. Wanna host a screening of your own? Hit us up at [email protected] 📧

11/08/2024

NEW ORLEANS — Get ready for a screening of our experimental abolitionist film, One Million Experiments!

After the screening, we’ll be speaking with two radiant folks. Our guest co-host is kai lumumba barrow, a self-taught and accomplished visual artist and social-movement organizer of over forty years. Barrow has worked with numerous organizations against state violence and prisons, and on experiments with abolitionist models for shrinking carceral logics. Barrow is interested in the praxis of radical imagination and experimenting with abolition as an aesthetic vernacular.

Our special guest is Brandan “BMIKE” Odums from StudioBe. Through his organization Eternal Seeds, he provides artists with tools they need to become the revolutionary leaders and shapers of a more just, equitable, and artful world.

Screening will be Sunday, November 13th at 6:30p at StudioBe (2941 Royal St).

🎥 One Million Experiments is our film exploring how we define and create safety in a world without police and prisons. Abolition doesn’t have easy answers, and we’ll need at least one million experiments to figure it out.

Hit the link in our bio to RSVP. Tickets are always free 🎟️

One Million Experiments explores what it means to create safety in a world without police and prisons. Wanna host a screening of your own? Hit us up at [email protected] 📧

11/07/2024

NEW ORLEANS - Come through to a workshop we’ll be facilitating! We’ll be exploring the importance of media in the fight for a liberatory future, and how journalists and media-makers can create a humanizing practice built on dialectical dialogue that supports radical transformation.   Participants gain hands-on tools to navigate power dynamics in their own media projects, classrooms, and community spaces; best practices for interviewing on-mic when discussing systems of harm and structural violence; and frameworks for building media projects that create sustainable and mutually beneficial collaboration with movement organizations and communities at the front lines of challenging systems of harm.

This event is proudly co-sponsored by Tulane University Libraries, The Phyllis M. Taylor Center for Social Innovation and Design Thinking, the Tulane Violence Prevention Institute, and Digital Media Practices.

Talking Toward Repair: Dialogue, Dialectics and Liberation will be next Tues, November 12th at 3:30pm in the Howard-Tilton Memorial Library.

📸 Check out our banner hanging up at Tulane University outside the Stern Hall PJs.

🎟️ RSVP at the link in bio 🎟️

11/05/2024

We loved sharing our film 1ME and hanging out with our pals Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn as part of the Peace and Justice Studies convening at Niagara University! It is so important that we spend time learning from our movement elders.

We are always overjoyed to learn from Bill, and urge you to go scoop his new book “When Freedom is the Question, Abolition is the Answer” from a local bookstore near you.

11/04/2024

NEW ORLEANS — Get ready for a screening of our experimental abolitionist film, One Million Experiments!

After the screening, we’ll be speaking with two radiant folks. Our host is Kai Lumumba Barrow, an accomplished visual artist and social-movement organizer of over forty years.

Our special guest co-host is Brandan “BMIKE” Odums from StudioBe. Through his organization Eternal Seeds, he provides artists with tools they need to become the revolutionary leaders and shapers of a more just, equitable, and artful world.

Screening will be Wednesday, November 13th at 6:30p at StudioBe (2941 Royal St).

🎥 One Million Experiments is our film exploring how we define and create safety in a world without police and prisons. Abolition doesn’t have easy answers, and we’ll need at least one million experiments to figure it out.

Hit the link in our bio to RSVP. Tickets are always free 🎟️

One Million Experiments explores what it means to create safety in a world without police and prisons. Wanna host a screening of your own? Hit us up at [email protected] 📧

11/01/2024

TOMORROW - Grab tickets for our screening at the Chicago Humanities Festival! We will have a screening and conversation on November 2nd at the Athenaeum Center for Thought & Culture at 2936 N Southport Ave.

Our special guest cohost is Maira Khwaja. Maira is an educator and multimedia producer. At the Invisible Institute, she directs public impact strategy & outreach. Her work centers on the Youth / Police Project, which primarily builds conversations with young people (ages 16-22) on the South Side about their everyday encounters with policing. Maira was a 2021 Leaders for a New Chicago award winner.

We are proud to put on this screening in partnership with Illinois Humanities ()

🎥 One Million Experiments is our film exploring how we define and create safety in a world without police and prisons. Abolition doesn’t have easy answers, and we’ll need at least one million experiments to figure it out.

Hit the link in our bio. Tickets are for sale for $25.

Respair Production & Media

02/14/2025

02/06/2025

02/05/2025

02/05/2025

01/10/2025

11/14/2024

11/11/2024

11/08/2024

11/07/2024

11/05/2024

11/04/2024

11/01/2024

Address

Telephone

Website

Alerts

Contact The Business

Shortcuts

Share

Category