Sunday, April 26, 2026 at 4:30 PM to Sunday, April 26, 2026 at 6:30 PM
18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica
**FREEDOM TIME: Sunday Dance Jams** **Sunday, April 26th | 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM** **1639 18th Street. Santa Monica, CA 90404** **Free + Open to the Public, Registration Required** Join the Dancing Through Prison Walls community every Sunday for in-person dancing abolition sessions (pole, quebradita, breaking, salsa), followed by dance jams. Everyone welcome – all ages, all experiences, all abilities. This session is Anti-ICE Quebradita led by Irvin Gonzalez Letter writing to people held by ICE and CBP detention, led by Dignity Not Detention **About the artist** Dancing Through Prison Walls is a California-based dance and performance project whose mission is to dance with, choreograph with, and tell stories within embodied carceral landscapes and beyond, amplifying voices of incarcerated people, and addressing mass incarceration. Begun in 2016, the work embraces a porous community of incarcerated, formerly incarcerated, and “free world” dancers, choreographers, visual artists, and performers. The resulting hours of dance, dance making, performance, film creation, writing, and community conversations comprise a body of work that is at its essence a critical dialogue about freedom, confinement, and ways for surviving restriction, limitations, and denial of liberty through the act of dancing. Moving towards their North Star goal of decarceration and abolition, they dance through prison walls. **For more information contact:** https://www.dancingthroughprisonwalls.org/ dancingthroughprisonwalls@gmail.com ##