Transformative Justice - Sentence kids to art not jail

This Thursday 18 August evening at USC we will host a very exciting presentation from architect and executive director of Young New Yorkers,Rachel Barnard.

Rachel is a former architecture student at UQ and currently lives in New York where she founded the not-for-profit organisation Young New Yorkers. Theyoffer an arts-based alternative sentencing solution for 16 and 17 year olds, who are arrested and sentenced as adults in New York State. This is apertinent topic given the recent events at the Don Dale Youth Detention Centre in the NT.

We’ll also have a lively panel discussion and drinks and music afterwards in the USC Art Gallery. We’d love to see you there!

You can purchase your tickets here: https://events.ticketbooth.com.au/event/transformative-justice-forum Surplus proceeds will go to AIME.

If you would like to know more about the organisation and Rachel here is the link. https://advance.org/articles/rachel-barnard/

"Young New Yorkers began as a public art project meant to provide a platform for the creative voices of these young people . . . The criminal court of New York gives eligible 16- and 17-year-old defendants the option to participate in a Young New Yorkers program rather than spend time in jail, incur other adult criminal justice sanctions, and be saddled with a lifelong criminal record."