Art & Incarceration
Following up from the 2014 Aspen Ideas Festival, the Aspen Institute Arts Program continues examining how the lives of at-risk youth and incarcerated citizens are made better through the practice of drama.
Meade Palidofsky, the founder and director of Storycatchers Theatre, first spoke in Aspen about her 30 years in underserved Chicago neighborhoods and juvenile prisons teaching young people how to use narrative and theatrical tools to turn personal experiences, dreams, and aspirations into performance pieces. She and one of her star pupils, Angelica Garcia, will continue the conversation in New York, where they will be joined by actress Sabra Williams, founder and director of the Actors’ Gang Prison Project, whose work leading three eight-week workshops every year in California prisons has been shown to reduce both in-prison violence and recidivism rates among its participants.
Following up from the 2014 Aspen Ideas Festival, the Aspen Institute Arts Program continues examining how the lives of at-risk youth and incarcerated citizens are made better through the practice of drama.