Prison Performing Arts
 

Photos

Prison Performing Arts - Photography Project
In Fall 2007, Mel Watkin of The Photography Project at the Public Policy Research Center at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, in partnership with Prison Performing Arts, taught photography to a group of incarcerated juveniles. These photographers documented Prison Performing Arts classes at Detention--Capoeira, Acting, West African drumming and Afro-Caribbean dance-- and photographed scenes of life in Detention.

Photo exhibits: UMSL, October 2007 - January 2008
Schlafly Branch Library, October - December 2007

 

Occasion: Improvisation Class
Program: Arts Alive!
Location: St. Louis County Jail
Photo Credit: Durb Curlee

Occasion: Circus Class
Program: I'm an Actor
Location: St Louis City Juvenile Detention Center
Photo Credit: Durb Curlee


News

Judith Newmark, "From Prison to Theater...and Playing a Cop ", St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 16, 2008

The Riverfront Times, "All the Jail's a Stage," May 26, 2004


Radio

Ira Glass' This American Life, "Act V", Episode 218 broadcast on August 9, 2002.
(An audio CD is available on request.)

Video

"Taking it to the Streets" Video

 

Arts and Education Council Excelence in Arts Award

Hamlet Trailer

 

KMOV - Channel 4- CBS news

 



Prison Performing Arts
3547 Olive St.
St. Louis, MO 63103
(314) 289-4190

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