Dancing Away Detention: Benefit Show for the Hutto Visitation Program
Thursday, February 16 — doors @ 7:30pm, show @ 8:00pm
El Soy y la Luna – 600 E. 6th Street

Join us at El Sol y La Luna for an evening of live music benefiting the Hutto Visitation Program! During the benefit you’ll enjoy the sounds of the South East Players, Kiko y la Banda featuring Susan Torres, and DJ Chorizo Funk. We’ll have free appetizers, a silent auction, and you’ll get a chance to hear from members of the Hutto Visitation Program.

Get your tickets for $8 in advance (available at MonkeyWrench Books – 110 E. North Loop) and $10 at the door

You may have heard about the T. Don Hutto detention facility as a family detention center located close to Austin. Fortunately, the families were released in late 2009, but this for-profit private prison is now filled with immigrant women, most of whom are seeking asylum.

As community members, we feel the Hutto Visitation Program is a way to show friendship and solidarity with the women detained there, resist the isolation of detention, monitor human rights conditions at Hutto, and refuse a detention system that labels humans as “illegal.”

Since we hosted our first benefit show nearly one year ago, our volunteers have completed close to 50 visits with over 25 women, we have hosted 9 orientations for over 70 participants, and participated in several panels and presentations to raise awareness about Hutto and immigration detention.

So come and join us for a night of music, food, dancing, and convivencia!