Fenêtres sur le couloir de la mort

«Windows on Death Row » est un projet artistique et documentaire du dessinateur et de la journaliste suisses Patrick Chappatte & Anne- Frédérique Widmann qui vise à contribuer au débat sur la peine de mort. L’exposition, qui a tourné à travers les États-Unis, est présentée au CAL Charleroi pour la première fois en Belgique.

Vernissage : vendredi 18.10.2019, dès 19:00
Exposition : 21.10 > 06.12.2019 | Du lundi au vendredi, de 9:30 à 16:30 Ouverture exceptionnelle le samedi 23.11.19, de 11:00 à 16:30 Fermeture les 1er, 11 & 15.11.19

CAL Charleroi - Rue de France,31 - 6000 Charleroi
071/53.91.72 | info@cal-charleroi.be | www.cal-charleroi.be | www.windowsondeathrow.com

Cartoonists’ expressions of political ideas are threatened by violence, the state, and social media campaigns. Nationally known artists whose work is exhibited in “Windows on Death Row - Nick Anderson (the Washington Post Writer’s Group formerly of the Houston Chronicle), Patrick Chappatte (The New York Times), Ann Telnaes (the Washington Post) and Matt Wuerker (Politico) - will discuss their experiences and the need to defend the freedom of the press. David Schultz, a Floyd Abrams Clinical Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School and a leading First Amendment lawyer, will moderate.

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Leading capital defense lawyers discuss strategic litigation and policy, . Columbia Law School Professor Bernard Harcourt will moderate a panel that includes Barry Scheck, Co-Director, The Innocence Project; Christina Swarns, Attorney-in Charge, Office of the Appellate Defender; Maya Foa, Reprieve Director, James Liebman, Columbia Law School Professor and director of its Center for Public Research and Leadership (CPRL); George Kendall, Of Counsel, Squire Sanders Boggs Patton; and Julia Mason Tarver Wood, Partner, Paul Weiss Rifkin Wharton & Garrison.

Brandon L. Garrett ’01, the Justice Thurgood Marshall Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, talks about his new book, End of Its Rope: How Killing the Death Penalty Can Revive Criminal Justice, followed by comments by Jelani Cobb, Columbia Professor and a staff writer at The New Yorker. Lunch will be served.

Columbia Law School is proud to be the first law school and only New York venue to feature WINDOWS ON DEATH ROW (WODR), opening Sep 19 at 6:30 pm featuring a panel discussion moderated by The Marshall Project's Bill Keller.

Join us for the New York opening of “Windows on Death Row: Art from Inside and Outside the Prison Walls.” This extraordinary collaborative project displays more than 60 works drawn from people on death row, as well as from some of America’s top political cartoonists.

Co-creators Patrick Chappatte, editorial cartoonist for The International New York Times, and Anne-Frédérique Widmann, investigative reporter, and filmmaker will share their vision for the exhibit. Joining them will be 56-year-old painter Ndume Olatushani, who spent 20 years on death row for a crime he did not commit, as well as Columbia Law School faculty George Kendall and Brett Dignam. Bill Keller, editor-in-chief of The Marshall Project and former executive editor of The New York Times, will moderate the roundtable discussion.

The event takes place at Columbia Law School, Jerome Greene Hall, Room 104. A reception will immediately follow.

This event is free and open to the public. 

O'Kane Gallery at University of Houston - Downtown will host Windows on Death Row: Art From Inside and Outside the Prison Walls art exhibit and panel discussion.

6:15 - 7:30 pm     Panel Discussion: - Welcome Center Tour Room, Third Floor

7:30 - 9:00 pm    Exhibit opening Reception - O'Kane Gallery, Third Floor

The exhibition team includes project founders Anne-Frédérique Widmann and Patrick Chappatte and curator and project manager, Anne Hromadka. The event is sponsored by Consul General of Switzerland, Murder Victims’ Families for Human Rights,

The panel discussion will include a former death row inmate, legal experts, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist whose work is part of the show, and others. Attendees will view more than 70 artworks by people living on Death Row and by top editorial cartoonists in a one-of-a-kind exhibition.

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Thanks to all who joined us at this special evening exploring Windows On Death Row: Art from Inside and Outside the Prison Walls, with exhibit founders & organizers Patrick Chappatte and Anne-Frederique Widmann, special guests Ndume Olatushani and Piper Kerman.

Author PIPER KERMAN participated in our Windows on Death Row presentation on Saturday, Feb. 25, at 6:30 pm. Kerman’s memoir, ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK: MY YEAR IN A WOMEN’S PRISON, was adapted for Netflix, and is now an Emmy Award-winning original series. Kerman joined our exhibition founder's and Olatushani to give opening remarks.

4:00 pm              Founders’ Tour of Windows On Death Row, museum galleries

5:00-6:30 pm     Catered reception, Will Eisner Seminar Room

6:30-8:00 pm     Multimedia presentation by Windows On Death Row project and exhibit founders, political cartoonist Patrick Chappatte and journalist Anne-Frederique Widmann, followed by a special presentation from painter and former death-row inmate Ndume Olatushani who was wrongly convicted and imprisoned for 28 years. Jean and Charles Schulz Lecture Hall.

Keynote with former Swiss president Ruth Dreifuss, WoDR co-organizers Chappatte and Widmann, and former death-row inmate Ndume Olatushani at the Geneva FIFDH festival, Espace Pitoëff, Theater

Bibliothèque de la Cité, Geneva, Switzerland

Maison du Dessin de Presse, Morges, Switzerland

FPG Student Union

Dead Man Walking: The Journey Goes On - A lecture by Sister Helen Prejean

Oct 22, 2015, USC Annenberg Auditorium, 7 pm
Seating is limited. Please RVSP through USC Visions and Voices. 

Opening Reception: With the participation Ndume Olatushani who spent 28 years behind bars after being wrongfully convicted of murder In Tennessee.
Oct 22, USC Annenberg School of communication & journalism, East Lobby 5:30 pm.
Exhibition until Dec 18, 2015.

Admission is free. Reservations requested for the opening reception. RSVP beginning Tuesday, September 29, at 9 a.m. Please RSVP to USC Visions & Voices.