Press release here:
WHAT: Death Penalty Awareness Week Event in Asheville: EXECUTE ART NOT PEOPLE
WHEN: Monday, March 1, 2010, from 7-9pm
WHERE: 1st Congregational UCC Sanctuary, 20 Oak Street, Asheville, NC
Asheville — The First Congregational United Church of Christ in downtown Asheville is pleased to host Execute Art Not People, a free event to commemorate Amnesty International’s Death Penalty Awareness Week on Monday, March 1, from 7 to 9pm, featuring a quilt made by the families of murder victims and death row inmates in western North Carolina.
The program also includes poetry by Asheville poet DeWayne Barton and by former North Carolina death row inmate Edward Chapman, work by Asheville artists John Mac Kah, Anna Jensen and Linda Larsen as well as by death row inmate Wiley Dobbs, and music by Asheville musician James Richards, City Council member Cecil Bothwell and prison chaplain Rev. Mark Siler.
Nationally recognized restorative justice advocate Melanie Snyder, author of Grace Goes to Prison, will talk about Restorative Justice in a Tough-on-Crime World (see attached flyer for more details).
Event co-sponsors include the UNC-Asheville student chapter of Amnesty International as well as Amnesty USA, the Asheville-Buncombe League of Women Voters, People of Faith Against the Death Penalty, the Unitarian Universalist Church of Asheville Human Rights Team, and the WNC Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.