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Art to Live By: Choosing Life Rather Than Death

Chestnut Hill College 9601 Germantown Ave, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Art to Live By is an interactive art project that seeks to raise awareness of efforts to repeal the death penalty in Pennsylvania and engage artists and their communities in open discussion. The exhibit features artwork by death penalty activists and exonerees. Speakers Marc Bookman and Kathleen Lucas will give a talk on death penalty abolition efforts in Pennsylvania. Attendees have the opportunity to create their own artwork and send postcards to state legislators asking them to vote to end the death penalty.

This event is FREE and open to the public. East Parlor, St. Joseph's Hall

This event is sponsored in collaboration with Chestnut Hill College’s Institute for Forgiveness & Reconciliation, Pennsylvanians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (PADP), Uplift Solutions, Drexel University’s Kline School of Law, and Amnesty International.