Reading Inside Writing Out Loud with Archive-Based Creative Arts

Join Parole Preparation Project’s art program, Archive-Based Creative Arts, to read out loud writing by prisoners with life sentences in New York State. After each piece, write a response to the incarcerated artist for ABCA to send inside.

This event is part of the Session X Assembly project , a circle of creative exchanges between systems-impacted young adults in Recess’s Assembly Fellowship program and 3 members of Life Line Creative Arts, a writing group inside Eastern Correctional Institution in Napanoch, New York.

Facilitator and artist Kriss Li shared reproductions of prior artworks by Assembly Fellows with Life-Line Creative Arts. In response, each incarcerated participant wrote a short screenplay inspired by the artworks, resulting in 3 screenplays. Communication with Life Line Creative Arts is facilitated with Archive-Based Creative Arts,the art program of Parole Preparation Project.

During the Session Residency, Li is working with Assembly Fellows to transform the 3 screenplays into a single short film, which creatively integrates some elements from all 3 screenplays. At the project closing on March 12, the film will be screened for the public and sent to members of Life-Line Creative Arts within the limitations of the Pr*son system.

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