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LATEST NEWSLETTER 
| Prison Performing Arts is a 21-year-old, multi-discipline, literacy and performing arts program that serves incarcerated adults and children at St. Louis City Juvenile Detention Center, 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. Prison Performing Arts involves incarcerated youth and adults in the performing arts to inspire intellectual curiosity and personal development. We nurture the discipline, teamwork and communication skills necessary for successful re-entry into society. We encourage members of the larger community to connect personally with program participants, and we offer continuing programs for participants who have been released. TRIVIA NIGHT WITH PPA!
Reserve your table today!
Saturday, February 4th
Doors Open at 6:30pm
Trivia Starts at 7pm
$20 per person / $160 per table of eight
(Tables of eight get one free mulligan.)
One free round of beer or wine per player. You are welcome to bring food for your table. Please do not bring any pork or shellfish as part of your table snacks. RSVP to Shelby@prisonartsstl.org or call the office at 314-289-4190. | Click Image to Enlarge.
We're on the A-List!
PPA made St. Louis Magazine's A List/2011 and we're proud of it. The magazine's July issue named 170 of the city's finest across a dozen categories. The culture category indicated that PPA's "arts outreach" promotes "literacy and self-expression among a population of men and women who are easy to forget..." Because you support us, you're not among those who forget -- and we thank you.
Of course, as we celebrate the summer's accomplishments, much work remains before PPA's fiscal year closes on August 31st. We don't receive ticket revenues; it is the generosity of our supporters that allows us to fulfill our mission and to work within the system, helping prepare incarcerated men, women and children for life beyond the institution. Please consider this opportunity to support us as we end the fiscal year... and begin another.
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Sincere Apologies!
Due to an editing error, Dance St. Louis was not acknowledged properly in our Spring 2011 newsletter. We are honored to be a longtime partner of Dance St. Louis and appreciate the workshops we co-present annually at the St. Louis City Juvenile Detention Center. This past March, Dance St. Louis presented the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater at the Fox Theatre. Ailey teaching artist, Michael Leon Thomas, visited the Detention Center to provide an in-depth seminar. Thank you, Dance St. Louis, for making the workshop possible and for your commitment to the young people at St. Louis City Juvenile Detention Center.
To learn more about the exciting 2011/2012 Dance St. Louis season, please visit dancestlouis.org. | | Read about our production of A Midsummer Night's Dream
in Performing New Lives
edited by Jonathan Shailor
published in England
by Jessica Kingsley Publishing
Click here for more information
For a video about this book click here |
 | Donating to Prison Performing Arts just got Easier!
You can now support Prison Performing Arts several different ways. You can set up an automatic recurring monthly gift, or pay directly online. Click here for more information. |  |
