Solitary Man: A Visit to Pelican Bay – Performance and Panel

A benefit for the 25th anniversary of the California Coalition for Women Prisoners and the Free Sitawa Campaign~

Please join us  for a performance of Solitary Man: A Visit to Pelican Bay State Prison.

The one-hour two-person play with music by Fred Johnson and Charlie Hinton will be followed by a panel discussion with the producers alongside Dejohnette from CCWP to speak on the DROP LWOP (Life Without Parole) campaign and CCWP’s 25th anniversary, and Minister King with updates on the campaign to free Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa and the resistance inside California prisons since the 2011 and 2013 hunger strikes.

Performance description: In Solitary Man, Charlie travels to Crescent City to visit a lifer named Otis Washington (played by Fred). A 64 year old native of New York, Otis has been imprisoned since 1975 and at Pelican Bay since it opened in 1989. As they get to know each other, Otis explains some of what he has learned and experienced.

Learn more —
CCWP: https://womenprisoners.org/
DROP LWOP: https://droplwop.com/
Free Sitawa: https://sitawa.org/