Aspen is a place for leaders to lift their sights above the possessions which possess them. To confront their own nature as human beings, to regain control over their own humanity by becoming more self-aware, more self-correcting, and hence more self-fulfilling.
Walter P. Paepcke, Aspen Institute Co-Founder
Aspen Institute
Art & Incarceration
Note: This is a past event, additional resources may be available below.
Tue Nov 18, 2014
New York, NY
Date
Tue Nov 18, 2014 5:30pm – 7:00pm
Location
New York, NY, United States
Claire Tow Theater, Lincoln Center
150 West 65th Street
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.
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