Draw Your (S)words presents 'A Permanent Record'.
A showcase of poetry and music from artists, and family members of those, with lived and living experience of criminalisation.

This month DYS are honoured to be collaborating with formerly incarcerated art therapy facilitator Sarah Tucker and social worker and researcher Tessa Cunningham to host the closing night of the ‘A Permanent Record’ exhibition. This exhibition centresthe narratives of criminalised young people who have shared their stories as part of Tessa’s PhD research. The exhibition fuses these stories with multi-modal artistic works produced by and with formerly incarcerated and criminalised people. The exhibition takes a critical look at the violence of the carceral system and seeks to illuminate crime as a social process, deeply connected to broader inequalities.

The themes explored are heavy and confronting and may be particularly distressing for any attendees with lived (and living) experience of harm at the hand of this system.

Doors open at 6pm | Music, poetry and talks by folks with lived experience of criminalisation from 6.30pm.

$15 General admission, $10 Concession, free entry for anyone who needs it, with 50% of all ticket sales going to Seeds of Affinity, and the remaining 50% to be split amongst performers.

Nibbles will be provided. To ensure inclusivity for criminalised individuals who may have restrictions on attending licensed premises, no alcohol will be served.

Accessibility: The Mill is wheelchair accessible. A staff member will be stationed outside the main entrance to assist those with accessibility needs.

Capacity is limited. Please RSVP only if you genuinely plan to attend and cancel your attendance through Humanitix if you can no longer make it.

This exhibition has been made possible by the Catherine Helen Spence Memorial Scholarship, the Adelaide City Council quick grants program and Human Kind's Ripple Effect grants program. Our deepest gratitude to all.

This event is occurring on the stolen and unceded lands of the Kaurna people. Tess, Sarah and the DYS team would like to recognise that prisons are colonial creations that have caused, and continue to cause, great harm to Kaurna and to First Nations peoples more broadly.