Life and Death: A Community Conversation on Capital Punishment January 10, 2013

SOMArts Cultural Center presents Life and Death: A Community Conversation on Capital Punishment. Moderated by Laura Magnani, Assistant Regional Director of American Friends Service Committee, San Francisco, confirmed panelists include Frances Luster, who lost her son in an execution-style homicide in San Francisco in 1990, and a representative from Death Penalty Focus, a nonprofit organization working for alternatives to the death penalty.

Life and Death accompanies SOMArts' exhibition Speak Your Peace, open January 4 through 24, 2013 curated by SOMArts’ Curator & Gallery Director Justin Hoover. The exhibition brings together Bay Area-based painters, digital, video and installation artists ranging in age, ethnicity and nationality to explore intercultural communication and social justice and propose new iconographies of peace through visual art.

Official Website: http://www.somarts.org/lifeanddeath