Join Progressive Alliance of Henderson County for a meal and screening of CALLS FROM HOME (31min) followed by a panel discussion on Building Community Not Prisons (BCNP), a national coalition currently fighting the proposed half-billion dollar construction of a new 1,400-bed federal prison in Letcher County, Kentucky, slated for a former mountaintop removal coal mining site.

Following the screening, BCNP Coalition members & local community members will discuss this potential prison and what it would mean for our communities. Doors open at 6:00pm, film starts at 6:30pm.

About the film: A longstanding radio program sends familial messages of love to people incarcerated in Central Appalachia. Directed by Sylvia Ryerson, a former DJ for the show, Calls From Home follows the weekly broadcast through prison walls, portraying the many forms of distance that rural prison building creates—and the ceaseless work to end the racist system of mass incarceration and family separation.

This event is free & includes dinner! This screening is hosted by the Progressive Alliance of Henderson County, Working Films, and the Building Community Not Prisons coalition.