June 1, 2018 7:00-10:00PM The Monthly Fund: June Edition

This June installment of The Monthly Fund is supporting The Youth Art & Self-Empowerment Project. The event will feature performances by some incredible artists including:

GADADU
Oh! Pears
Maryan Nagy Captan
Murayama Music

About The Monthly Fund:
The Monthly Fund is a roaming, salon-style event series curated by Jeremy Prouty. Each month, a collaborative event is held somewhere in Philadelphia to raise funds and awareness for an organization doing good/necessary work. Past organizations include the Standing Rock Legal Collective, New Sanctuary Movement of Philadelphia, and Bread & Roses Community Fund.

About The Youth Art & Self-Empowerment Project:
YASP conducts art, poetry, music, and empowerment workshops at the Philadelphia Industrial Correctional Center (P.I.C.C.) and Riverside Correctional Facility (R.F.C.) every Saturday with young people under 18 who are being tried as adults. We also show our documentary and do leadership building workshops at schools and colleges to teach youth about the flaws of the criminal justice system and how to avoid a life of crime.

We believe that it is very important to talk to youth both in the adult jails and in public schools to help them stay out of the system period.

We believe that the more youth that we inform about the school-to-prison pipeline, the more progress we make because knowledge is power.

We believe that the reason that youth in urban communities end up going through the school-to-prison pipeline and end up incarcerated is because most of them didn’t realize that it was even in place.

Help YASP help our communities for the better. We all have a voice, let’s use them to better the future.

For more information: www.yasproject.com

The Art Dept Collective.
1638 E Berks St, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19125