Performing Arts in Prisons

Description

Across the world, performing arts programmes are increasing in number, scope and professionalism. They attract increasing academic and media attention. Theoretical and applied research, organizational evaluation reports, documentary films and journalism are detailing prison arts and creating recognition that this body of work is becoming a valued part of the correctional enterprise. There is a growing body of evidence that suggests music, theatre, poetry and dance can contribute to prisoner wellbeing, management, rehabilitation and reintegration. Performing Arts in Prisons: Creative Perspectives explores prison arts in Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom and Chile, and creates a new framework for understanding its practices.

Notes on Contributors

Preface

Introduction: Performing arts in prisons - creative perspectives

Micheal Balfour, Brydie-Leigh Bartleet, Linda Davey, John Rynne and Huib Schippers

Chapter 1: A correctional perspective on the creative arts in prisons

Andrew Day

Chapter 2: Geese Theatre Company - 30 years on

Louise Heywood, Andy Watson MBE and Michael Balfour

Chapter 3: One Mob Different Country: First Peoples of Australia dance in Darwin Prison

John Rynne, Dennis Lew Fatt and Brett Schroder

Chapter 4: 'This place is full of drama queens': Reflecting on the value of drama in a women's prison

Sarah Woodland

Chapter 5: Through the looking glass: A voice from the inside 

Anya (pseudonym)

Chapter 6: Breaking the fifth wall: How performance might assist desistance from crime

Linda Davey

Chapter 7: Drumming interventions in Australian prisons: Insights from the Rhythm2Recovery model

Simon Faulkner and Brydie-Leigh Bartleet

Chapter 8: Arts in Corrections New Zealand

Jacqui Moyes

Chapter 9: The play's the thing: Performance in Prison Shakespeare

Rob Pensalfini

Chapter 10: 'Heart and heartbeat': Working beyond prison theatre, performing protagonismo social in the real world

Penelope Glass

Chapter 11: 'Strategies for success': Trusting the power of the arts

Maud Clarke

Chapter 12: Performing arts activities with hopes to build positive self-identity, heal harms and broaden the US public's perceptions of people inside prisons

Mary L. Cohen

Chapter 13: Unlocked: Prison poetry workshops as a key to engaging inmates

Johanna Featherstone and Huib Schippers

Chapter 14: 'Music is the colour of my skin': The story of the Murru Band

Dudley Billing and Dave Palmer

Concluding Reflections 

Micheal Balfour, Brydie-Leigh Bartleet, Linda Davey, John Rynne and Huib Schippers

Index

Sujets

• Social Science
• Performing Arts
• Sociologie, société et politique
• Sociology
• Incarceration
• Performance art
• General officer
• General

Informations

• Publié par: Intellect Books
• Date de parution: 15 juillet 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9781789380163
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 44 Mo

Extrait

Performing Arts in Prisons

Performing Arts in Prisons Creative Perspectives

Edited by Michael Balfour, BrydieLeigh Bartleet, Linda Davey, John Rynne and Huib Schippers

intellectBristol, UK / Chicago, USA

First published in the UK in 2019 by Intellect, The Mill, Parnall Road, Fishponds, Bristol, BS16 3JG, UK

First published in the USA in 2019 by Intellect, The University of Chicago Press, 1427 E. 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA

Copyright © 2019 Intellect Ltd

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission.

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Copyeditor: MPS Technologies Cover designer: Aleksandra Szumlas Cover image: Crónicas de una ignorancia anunciada (‘Chronicles of  foretold ignorance’) (2012), show about Chilean education system  and 2011 mass protests. Photo: Rodrigo Hernández. Production manager: Mareike Wehner Typesetting: Contentra Technologies

Print ISBN: 9781783209972 ePDF ISBN: 9781789380163 ePub ISBN: 9781789380156

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This is a peerreviewed publication.

Contents

Notes on contributors Preace

Introduction: Perorming arts in prisons – creative perspectives  Michael Balfour, BrydieLeigh Bartleet, Linda Davey, John Rynne  and Huib Schippers Chapter 1: A correctional perspective on the creative arts in prisons  Andrew Day Chapter 2: Geese Theatre Company – 30 years on  Louise Heywood, Andy Watson MBE and Michael Balfour Chapter 3:One Mob Diferent Country: First Peoples o Australia dance  in Darwin Prison  John Rynne, Dennis Lew Fatt and Brett Schroder Chapter 4:‘This place is ull o drama queens’: Reflecting on the value  o drama in a women’s prison  Sarah Woodland Chapter 5: Through the looking glass: A voice rom the inside  Anya (pseudonym) Chapter 6:Breaking the fith wall: How perormance might assist  desistance rom crime  Linda Davey Chapter 7:Drumming interventions in Australian prisons: Insights rom  the Rhythm2Recovery model  Simon Faulkner and BrydieLeigh Bartleet Chapter 8: Arts in Corrections New Zealand  Jacqui Moyes

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The play’s the thing: Perormance in Prison Shakespeare Rob Pensalfini ‘Heart and heartbeat’: Working beyond prison theatre, perorming protagonismo social in the real world Penelope Glass ‘Strategies or success’: Trusting the power o the arts Maud Clarke Perorming arts activities with hopes to build positive sel-identity, heal harms and broaden the US public’s perceptions o people inside prisons Mary L. Cohen Unlocked: Prison poetry workshops as a key to engaging inmates Johanna Featherstone and Huib Schippers ‘Music is the colour o my skin’: The story o the Murru Band Dudley Billing and Dave Palmer

Concluding reflections Michael Balfour, BrydieLeigh Bartleet, Linda Davey, John Rynne and Huib Schippers

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Professor MIchael Balfourîs Proessor o heare and Perormance a Unîversîy o New Sou Waes, Sydney, Ausraîa. He îs a eare researcer and pracîîoner îneresed în e socîa and creaîve appîcaîons o e ars în a range o conexs. He as wrîen wîdey on appîed eare, wî a parîcuar îneres în eare în conlîc and peacebuîdîng, prîson eare, eare and mîgraîon, ars-based work wî reurnîng mîîary personne and, mos receny, creaîve ageîng and demenîa. Mîcae’s mos recen book îsApplîed heatre: Understandîng Cange(Sprînger, 2018). He îs Co-Serîes Edîor o e Boomsbury Meuen Appîed heare book serîes and a Co-Edîor oApplîed heatre Researcand eJournal o Arts and Communîtîes.

Professor BrydIe-LeIgh Bartleet îs Dîrecor o e Queensand Conservaorîum Researc Cenre, GrîI Unîversîy, Ausraîa. Se îs known wordwîde or er researc în communîy musîc and communîy engagemen and as ed many projecs a expore e socîa împac o e ars. Se as worked în parnersîp wî a wîde range o NGOs, ars and communîy organîzaîons and coeagues across Ausraîa and înernaîonay o desîgn, drîve and deîver înnovaîve and îgy compex projecs. hîs work as ed o new and înerdîscîpînary approaces o musîc researc a înersec wî ea and webeîng, correcîons and crîmînoogy, ïndîgenous and cuura poîcy, socîa jusîce and regîona ars deveopmen and, mos receny, uman rîgs. Se as worked on ive naîonay compeîîve grans, consuancîes and presîgîous eowsîps (oaîng over $1.2 mîîon), as we as 140 researc oupus în îg-eve naîona and înernaîona pubîcaîons, înernaîona keynoes în Aoearoa New Zeaand, Ausraîa, Canada, Japan, Germany and ïreand, earnîng and eacîng resources and îndusry-ocused rameworks or pracîce and advocacy oos. ïn 2014, se was awarded e Ausraîan Unîversîy Teacer o e Year. ïn 2017, se was învîed o be a oundîng member o e Begîum-based NGOSocîal Impact o Musîc Makîng(SïMM), and în 2018, se was awarded a îgy compeîîveArt or Good Fellowsîprom e Sîngapore Foundaîon.

Dudley BIllIngîs a Mebourne-based reeance musîcîan and ars acîvîs.

Maud Clarkeas been workîng creaîvey wî women însîde and ousîde o prîson sînce 1980 and, as co-ounder o Somebody’s Dauger heare Company, as been e prîncîpa

Perormîng Ars în Prîsons

dîrecor and wrîer o numerous îgy successu eare works. Sînce 2000, Maud as been eadîng a groundbreakîng, ars-based educaîon programme în regîona Vîcorîa, Ausraîa, or dîsadvanaged young peope wo are ousîde e orma educaîon sysem due o îsorîes o abuse and omeessness. Maud îs a passîonae advocae or access o and equaîy în e ars. As a sîgnîican conrîbuor o e ars and cuure, se as been recognîzed wî e Ausraîa Councî’s Ros Bower Award or er îeîme conrîbuîon o communîy ars and e Amnesy ïnernaîona Human Rîgs Award or Ousandîng Human Rîgs Acîvîs. ïn 2006 se was made a member o e Order o Ausraîa în recognîîon o er work.

Dr Mary L. Cohenan Assocîae Proessor and Area Head o Musîc Educaîon a e îs Unîversîy o ïowa. Se researces musîc-makîng and webeîng, songwrîîng and coaboraîve communîîes. ïn 2009, se ounded e Oakdae Prîson Communîy Coîr, comprîsed o mae înmaes and women and men rom e communîy. As o Augus 2018, Oakdae Songwrîers ave creaed 142 orîgîna songs (75 songs perormed by e coîr), and compîed 21 newseers wî seecîons rom relecîve wrîîng avaîabe a p://oakdaecoîr.îb.uîowa.edu/. Mary’s researc îs pubîsed înInternatîonal Journal o Researc în Coral Sîngîng, Journal o Researc în Musîc Educatîon, te Australîan Journal o Musîc Educatîon, Journal o Hîstorîcal Researc în Musîc Educatîon, Journal o Correctîonal Educatîon,e Internatîonal Journal o Communîty Musîc,Internatîonal Journal o Musîc Educatîon and numerous book capers. Se îs on e seerîng commîee o e newy ormîng Jusîce Ars Coaîîon, as presened er researc în en counrîes, and as co- auored wo pubîcaîons wî încarceraed or ormery încarceraed peope. Se îs compeîngSîlenced Voîces: Musîc-Makîng în U.S. Prîsons.

Dr LInda Daveya orensîc and cînîca psycoogîs, eare-maker ars educaor and îs academîc, wî over 20 pubîcaîons în e area o ofender reabîîaîon. Se îs curreny e înaugura Cînîca Servîces Manager o Rîvergum Resîdenîa Treamen Cenre, an Ausraîan-irs pos-senence erapeuîc acîîy or serîous ofenders. Se was Researc Feow wî e Capîve Audîences projec, based a GrîI Unîversîy, mappîng perormîng ars în Ausraîan prîsons. As arîsîc dîrecor ohe Art o Lîvîng, Mobîlong Prîson Arts Festîval(2006), se dîreced orîgîna eare and musîca works wî mae prîsoners. Se en ounded e ïnsîdeOu Ars Worksop, workîng wî încarceraed women în a eare program cumînaîng în pubîc perormances o e devîsed worksHome Agaîn(2012) and Her Name îs Alîce(2013). ïn 2017, se compeed er P.D., ‘Perormîng Desîsance: A mode o cange or appîed eare wî încarceraed women’.

Andrew Dayîs a Feow o e Ausraîan Psycoogîca Socîey and Proessor and Head o ïndîgenous Researc a James Cook Unîversîy, Queensand, Ausraîa. Beore joînîng academîa e was empoyed as a cînîca psycoogîs în Sou Ausraîa and e Unîed Kîngdom, avîng gaîned îs Docorae în Cînîca Psycoogy rom e Unîversîy o

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Bîrmîngam and îs Masers în Appîed Crîmînoogîca Psycoogy rom e Unîversîy o London. He îs wîdey pubîsed în many areas o orensîc psycoogy, wî a ocus on e deveopmen o efecîve and evîdence-based approaces o ofender reabîîaîon.

SImon Faulkner, BSocScî (Psycoogy & Addîcîon), MCoun, îs a eadîng pracîîoner în e desîgn and deîvery o evîdence-based înervenîons uîîsîng rymîc musîc o assîs wî socîa and emoîona earnîng and recovery rom rauma. He îs e auor o e bookRytm to Recovery(Jessîca Kîngsey Pubîsers, 2016) and as conrîbued o over a dozen pubîsed papers and researc sudîes on rym-based înervenîons wîîn erapeuîc and educaîona seîngs. He as worked wî a broad range o cîens în bo juvenîe and adu prîson seîngs, încudîng ose deaîng wî drug and acoo addîcîon, mena ea caenges and deveopmena dîsorders, and reugees workîng roug rauma. Sîmon deveoped e Rym2Recovery mode and e muî-award- wînnîng DRUMBEAT înervenîon and aer wen on o desîgn e word’s irs rym- based compuer game or e deveopmen o socîa and emoîona skîs – DRUMBEAT Ques. Bo programs are used by ea and educaîon servîces în counrîes across e word. Sîmon as exensîve experîence workîng cross cuuray and as deîvered erapeuîc înervenîons and raînîng programs o Aborîgîna and Torres Sraî ïsander communîîes across Ausraîa as we as 1s Naîons communîîes în bo e Unîed Saes and Canada.

Johanna Featherstoneounded e no-or-proi poery organîzaîon, Red Room Poery (RR), în 2003 and was îs Arîsîc Dîrecor and CEO or over a decade. Joanna conînues o run poery worksops în scoos and prîsons în parnersîp wî RR. Joanna as ad er poems pubîsed în many Ausraîan journas and as one coecîon o poery, ‘Fe’ (Vagabond Press). Se îs an onorary assocîae wî he Unîversîy o Sydney’sScool o Letters, Arts and Medîaand a recîpîen o a eowsîp rom eSt James Etîcs Centre (2008). Joanna îs aso a reguar assessor orhe Australîa Councîl and Arts NSWîeraure programmes and eowsîps.

Penelope Glassas creaed eare a provokes crîîca socîa relecîon wî many groups and communîîes în Ausraîa and sînce e 1970s. Her work îs buî on e power o coecîvîy, conînuîy and coaboraîon. Member, Tearo Pasmî 1999–2011. Sînce 2002, se co-dîrecs Fénîx e ïusîoneseare coecîve în e Coîna 1 prîson. ïn 2012, se co- ounded Coecîvo Suseno, wîc works însîde and ousîde prîson conexs (adu and you deenîon), empoyîng eare and urban gardenîng. Penny îs curreny a P.D. candîdae a GrîI Unîversîy (Ausraîa) and assocîae proessor a e heare Scoo, Unîversîdad Academîa de Humanîsmo Crîsîano (Cîe). Se as gîven conerences and worksops în Europe, Ausraîa, New Zeaand and Laîn Amerîca. Se sees er work as a consan ‘provocaîon o e possîbe’.

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