AND WATER BRINGS TOMORROW

Date: October 13, 2024

Time: 5:00-8:00pm

Location: The New Parkway Theater

More Information: A free work-in-progress preview of And Water Brings Tomorrow hosted by Critical Resistance and CURB.

Filmmaker Ashley Hunt has been working with Critical Resistance (CR) for over two decades, seeing CR and CURB’s powerful organizing lay the groundwork for the prison closures and decarceration that And Water Brings Tomorrow highlights.

Date: November 12, 2024

Time: 4:30-7:30pm

Location: Civil Rights Institute of Inland Southern California

More Information: Filmmaker and Artist Ashley Hunt has been dedicating his work to the struggle against mass incarceration for over two decades, workin the organizations who have laid the groundwork for the prison closures and decarceration that And Water Bring Tomorrow highlights.

Date: January 15, 2025

Time: 5:00pm pt / 8:00pm ET

Location: Zoom

More Information: Join our partners ACLU SoCal for their next Decarceral Visions webinar, introducing the new documentary, And Water Brings Tomorrow, where filmmaker, Ashley Hunt will share excerpts and join in dialogue with Speakers from the campaigns featured in the film!

Date: Saturday, April 19th, 2025

Time: 2–5:30pm

Location: Hanes Art Center, rm 218

Kicking off our Grassroots Screening Tour in Chapel Hill, sponsored by the Community Justice and Abolition Collective, including a panel and conversation with members of local organizations, BenevolenceFarm and the Children’s Place.

Date: April 26, 2025

Time: 3:00pm

Location: California Museum of Photography, the Culver Cinema at UC Riverside

Reserve Tickets: https://ucrarts.ucr.edu/films/and-water-brings-tomorrow/

More Information: This screening is supported by UC Riverside’s College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (CHASS) Dean’s Office and the Center for Ideas and Society. Additional support is provided by the Department of Anthropology, the Department of Dance, and the Department of Society, Environment, and Health Equity at UC Riverside.

Date: May 27, 2025

Time: 5:00p.m. - 8:30p.m.

Location: Humanities Gateway, Room 1070 (McCormick Screening Room)

More Info: The third film by Ashley Hunt, in which he explores today’s abolition movement through the lens of closed and closing prisons.  Following campaigns to shrink prison systems, this film tells its story against the backdrop of climate forces that are changing our world.

Can our discussion of the film serve as a catalyst for mobilization—helping us co-imagine what revolution feels like and how it might expand beyond our immediate circles?

Discussion following the screening with:
Ashley Hunt, Artist-Activist & Prison Abolitionist
Amber-Rose Howard, Executive Director, California United for a Responsible Budget
AK, Trauma Healing and Restorative Justice Circle for Incarcerated Women with ReEvolution
Ipyani Lockert, Faith Organizer for Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity
Shannon Andrea Thomas, Transformative Justice Practitioner and Conflict Mediator

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• Contact: Teresa Neighbor, tneighbo@uci.edu

• Sponsor: Department of Global and International Studies, and co-sponsored by Global Race Research Lab, Interdisciplinary Scholars Association, C-Lab, WUICAN, DECADE, and the Center for Racial Justice

Date: Thursday May 8, 2025

Time: 6–9pm

Location: Denver Justice and Peace Committee and Shut Down GEO Aurora

More Info: Followed by panel with filmmaker, Ashley Hunt, Ipyani Lockert of Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity, and members of Colorado Trans Immigrant Fund, the Immigrant Freedom Fund, and AFSC of Colorado

Date: July 10, 2025

Time: 6–8pm CT

Location: Walls Turned Sideways

More Info: Organized by the Coalition to Decarcerate Illinois and the Sentencing Project, the screening is followed by a panel discussion with Nicole Porter of the Sentencing Project and local organizers

Date: July 12, 2025

Time: 6:30pm

Location: Rogue Action Center, 205 N Phoenix Rd Suite 255, Phoenix, OR 97535

Date: July 13th, 2025

Time: 6:30–9pm

Location: The PAM CUT’s Tomorrow Theater

Sponsored by Critical Resistance PDX and the Partnership for Safety and Justice

Date: September 11, 2025

Time: 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Location: Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois Chicago

More Info: And Water Brings Tomorrow: A Film Screening and Informal Discussion

Date: September 12, 2025

Time: 6pm

Location: Holiday Inn Little Rock Presidential - Downtown Little Rock, AR

More Info: DecARcerate Conference 2025, Little Rock, AR

Item descriptionDate: October 6, 2025

Time: 6:30pm

Location: Studio Two Three

More Info: InThrive Film Festival 2025-2026 Season Opening Celebration, October 3-6, 2025. Festival website: https://inthrivefilmfestival.org/.

+ Followed by conversation with Nicole González Van Cleve

Date: October 9th

Time: 1-2:30 pm

Location: Brown University

More Info: Please contact us for more info.

Followed by opening keynote by Jack Halberstam

Date: October 9, 2025

Time: 7pm

Location: Dartmouth College, Hannover, NH

More Info: Kinship, Abolition, Freedom: International Association of Visual Arts Conference Schedule

Date: October 10, 2025

Time: 6pm-8:30pm

Location: Main Street Landing Film House: The Green Room and Atrium (Third Floor)

More Info: The event And Water Brings Tomorrow - Film Screening and Discussion is organized by FreeHer VT and the Peace & Justice Center.

Date: October 10, 2025

Time: 7:30pm

Location: Pluck Farm Brewery

More Info: Organized by NC Climate Justice Collective, West End Revitalization Assoc., and Benevolence Farm.