One Million Experiments: Screening + Convo + Experiment Gallery
A Film Exploring How We Define and Create Safety in a World Without Police and Prisons
February 18, 2025
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Join One Million Experiments co-hosts Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger for a performance, screening, and interactive conversation about the new liberatory possibilities already in the making all around us.
Dr. Beth Richie will moderate the discussion between the 1ME filmmakers and local community organizers.
One Million Experiments is a film exploring how we define and create wellness and reduce harm in a world without police and prisons. Built out of a podcast and curated collection of community-based safety projects created in the midst of the 2020 uprising, One Million Experiments remixes longform interviews with movement workers across the world who have created community-based safety projects. 1ME expands our ideas about what keeps us safe, celebrates the work already happening to build solutions that are grounded in transformation instead of punishment, and invites you to participate in the joyous work of liberation. We don’t need one answer to how we get free–we need one million experiments.
1ME at UIC is organized by Black Studies and cosponsored by a broad coalition of UIC departments, institutes, and centers:
- Arab American Cultural Center
- Asian American Resource and Cultural Center
- Black Cultural Center
- Criminology, Law, and Justice
- Disability Cultural Center
- Gender and Sexuality Center
- Gender and Women's Studies
- Global Asian Studies
- Global Middle East Studies
- Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy
- Latin American and Latino Studies
- Latino Cultural Center
- Social Justice Initiative
- Sociology
- Women's Leadership and Resource Center
For more event details visit, https://blst.uic.edu/events/1ME-screening.
Date posted
Jan 24, 2025
Date updated
Jan 24, 2025