Join us for a screening of Changing the World, One Wall at a Time, a documentary feature film on Education Is Not A Crime – the world’s largest street art and human rights campaign, which raises awareness about education apartheid by Iran’s government against tens of thousands of Baha’is in the country.

Changing the World, One Wall at a Time features interviews with popular artists – such as Rone from Australia, Astro from France, Marthalicia Matarrita from New York, and Elle from Los Angeles – as well as activists with experience of the Civil Rights movement, the anti-Apartheid struggle in South Africa, and human rights work on behalf of Iranians of all backgrounds. Iranian Baha’is with personal experience of being denied their right to higher education also share their stories. The film was produced as part of Education is Not A Crime and is presented by Executive Producer Maziar Bahari.

Education Is Not A Crime raises awareness of the discrimination against the Baha’is, who believe in ideals such as the equality of men and women, peaceful non-violence, and universal education. The campaign began in 2014, and since then street artists and human rights activists have teamed up to use art, social media and community outreach to build a new audience for their message of education equality in Iran.

Forty-one murals have been painted in US and international cities as part of the project: Atlanta, Cape Town, Delhi, London, Nashville, Sao Paulo, Sydney, with two-dozen in New York City. Nineteen of the New York murals were painted in the iconic Harlem neighborhood because of its long association with cultural innovation during the Harlem Renaissance and the 1960s Civil Rights movement.

For more information please visit http://www.notacrime.me/thefilm.