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

PPA on HEC-TV...

Prison Performing Arts' Hip Hop Poetry Project at St. Louis City Juvenile Detention Center was featured on HEC-TV. Check it out to see examples of our Youth Programming. You will have the opportunity to see the 2010 Hip Hop Poetry Project performance next spring, so if you would like to make sure you receive an invitation, please contact rachel@prisonartsstl.org. You won't want to miss it...it only comes around once a year!

PPA Featured on PBS...

Prison Performing Arts' Youth Programming at Hogan Street Regional Youth Center was featured on PBS' Visionaries airing nationally in 2009. Get a rare glimpse of our programming.

Heidi Glaus, "Shakespeare Performed in the Most Unlikely Place", KSDK, Newchannel 5, February 16, 2009

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Agnes Wilcox featured in St. Louis Magazine

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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 Excellence in Arts Award

Hamlet Trailer

KMOV - Channel 4- CBS news