Prison Performing Arts: The Voice Within will screen at The Missouri History Museum (5700 Lindell Blvd) Saturday, Nov 16 at 7:00pm as part of this year’s St. Louis International Film Festival. Director Lisa Rhoden Boyd will be in attendance and will host a post-screening Q&a. This is a Free event
In Prison Performing Arts: The Voice Within inmates at the women’s prison in Vandalia, Mo., participate in a two-week Prison Performing Arts (Ppa) workshop and take an unforgettable journey into the depths of each other’s lives. The film demonstrates the transformational power that creating art has for incarcerated individuals, offering a compelling validation of Ppa’s long-standing mission. The documentary features portions of Ppa’s first commissioned play, “Run-On Sentence,” and includes interviews with Ppa’s late founder, Agnes Wilcox, playwright Stacie Lents, and Ppa artistic director Christopher Limber. The film also movingly relates the stories of...
In Prison Performing Arts: The Voice Within inmates at the women’s prison in Vandalia, Mo., participate in a two-week Prison Performing Arts (Ppa) workshop and take an unforgettable journey into the depths of each other’s lives. The film demonstrates the transformational power that creating art has for incarcerated individuals, offering a compelling validation of Ppa’s long-standing mission. The documentary features portions of Ppa’s first commissioned play, “Run-On Sentence,” and includes interviews with Ppa’s late founder, Agnes Wilcox, playwright Stacie Lents, and Ppa artistic director Christopher Limber. The film also movingly relates the stories of...
- 11/14/2019
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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