Saturday 10.30.10 -- Red Channels -- A Correctional Walking Tour of Manhattan

Contents:

1. About this Saturday
2. About the Centers, Complexes, Facilities, and Wards
3. About Red Channels
4. Useful Links

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1. About this Saturday

What: Walking Tour
When: Saturday -- 10.30.10 @ 12:00 PM
Where: Begins outside 150 Park Row, New York, NY 10007
Who: Free and open to all

This saturday we would like to invite you to a walking tour of jails and prisons in New York City organized by red channels, beginning with an afternoon excursion through Manhattan to locate and educate one another on the history and significance of these "hidden" spaces of incarceration. An opportunity to alter our psychogeographic perception and straight up learn about the prison system in NYC. Several contributers will be researching one center in advance of the tour to present to the group.

You are welcome to participate in the presentation, and to share information and thoughts you may have. The trip will be documented to make a video for anyone unable to join. Please bring video and still cameras if you would like to contribute.

For questions, please contact: detention[at]redchannels.org

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2. About the Centers, Complexes, Facilities, and Wards

Here are the 6 spaces we'll be visiting, in order:

1. Meet at: Metropolitan Correctional Center, 150 Park Row, New York, NY 10007

2. Walk to: Manhattan Detention Complex, 125 White Street, New York, NY 10013

3. Subway to: Bellevue Hospital Prison Ward, 462 1st Avenue, New York, NY 10016

4. Walk to: Bayview Correctional Facility, 550 West 20th Street, New York, New York 10011

5. Subway to: Edgecombe Correctional Facility, 611 Edgecombe Avenue, New York, New York 10032

6. Subway to: Lincoln Correctional Facility, 31-33 West 110th Street, New York, New York 10026

7. End in Central Park.

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3. About Red Channels

Red Channels is a radical collective. We are open for collaboration and discussion.

Since June 2009 we have organized screenings and discussions at Anthology Film Archives, BAMcinematek, Bluestockings, The Brecht Forum, Flux Factory, Maysles Cinema, 92Y-Tribeca, 16Beaver, and UnionDocs. Since September 2009 we have produced 3 short videos, and since April 2010 we have produced 5 publications, both in print and online, of collected and original writings.

Interviews:
30 June 2010 with Cullen Gallagher for the L: http://www.thelmagazine.com/TheMeasure/archives/2010/06/30/contraband-cinema-what-makes-a-political-film
18 October 2010 with Stephen Squibb for Idiom: http://idiommag.com/2010/10/no-more-seances-interview-with-red-channels/

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4. Useful links

http://www.bop.gov/
http://www.docs.state.ny.us/
http://www.justice.gov
http://www.nyc.gov/doc
http://www.redchannels.org