AND WATER BRINGS TOMORROW

A film by Ashley Hunt

Grassroots Tour

Shannon Andrea Thomas, AK, Amber-Rose Howard,

Ipyani Lockert, Ashley Hunt, Silvi Naçi at UC Irvine

Nicole Porter, with Coalition to Decarcerate Illinois, Chicago

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TOUR SCHEDULE

Upcoming

  • Date: 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/.

  • Date: October 9th

    Time: 1-2:30 pm

    Location: Brown University

    More Info: Please contact us for more info.

  • Date: October 9, 2025

    Time: 7pm

    Location: Dartmouth College

    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.

  • 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

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