Prison Performing Arts

Prison Performing Arts is a seventeen-year-old, multi-discipline, literacy and performing arts program that serves incarcerated adults and children -- at St. Louis City Juvenile Detention Center, City Workhouse, City Justice Center, County Jail, Hogan Street Regional Youth Center, Northeastern Correctional Center (NECC) in Bowling Green, MO and Women's Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center (WERDCC) in Vandalia, MO.

MISSION
Prison Performing Arts is dedicated to enriching the lives of adults and young people in the Missouri criminal and juvenile justice systems. We foster individual and social change by providing current and former inmates opportunities to participate in the performing arts as artists, students and audience members.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Whole Foods Market Supports Prison Performing Arts and so can you!

5% of all sales on September 11th at the Whole Foods Market at 1601 S. Brentwood Blvd by the Galleria will be donated to Prison Performing Arts as part of their Community 5% Day program. Several times a year, Whole Foods Market chooses local non-profits to receive this wonderful opportunity to raise awareness and money. Hours will be 8am-11pm. There will be performances by Prison Performing Arts Alumni Actors, Teaching Artists and more! Additionally there will be a cooking demonstration by Riddles Penultimate’s Andy Ayers (time TBD). Stock up and help PPA! For more information, Please contact PPA @ 314-289-4190.

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NEWS

Agnes Wilcox featured in St. Louis Magazine

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Tickets for An Evening with Ira Glass are on sale!

Host of This American Life, Ira Glass will be at The Pageant in St. Louis on Saturday, September 27. Check out www.irascoming.com for ticket information

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Prison Performing Arts receives Technology of the Day award from JumpIntoTomorrow.com!

"They go into prisons and teach the inmates literacy and performing arts. It inspires a passion that many didn't know existed, and it directs energy in a newer, healthier way. To say the performances are inspired is an incredible understatement."

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Prison Peforming Arts makes the front page of the St. Louis Post Dispatch!
Judith Newmark, "From Prison to Theater...and Playing a Cop ", St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 16, 2008