San Quentin Film School
Discovery Channel
Fridays 9 AM
The Discovery Channel is broadcasting a show on the San Quentin Film School, which follows a film program where 9 students create their own personal films through guidance from instructor Pepe Urquijo. The second episode was on March 27h, and there are 4 more installments.
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Entries from March 2009
March 28, 2009
San Quentin Film School on Discovery Channel
March 25, 2009
The Concrete Rose Garden
by Julia Taylor
For the past five months I have been writing with a group of women at the Otter Creek Correctional Facility in Wheelright, KY. Located in an historic coal mining camp town, the prison was built as a source of jobs and is run as a private prison by the Corrections Corporation of [...]
March 23, 2009
Our Voices Within: Internally Free
This Saturday, March 28th fifteen battered women who have been released from California’s state prisons are holding a community event to celebrate their freedom and to call for the release of others who remain in prison. The women served between three and 30 years in prison, the majority for killing abusive partners when defending [...]
March 21, 2009
Prison Art in the News
Read a great New York Times article on Spel, an artist at the prison in Grateford, PA here
Read Phyllis Kornfeld’s “Digging for Gold: Finding goodness, autonomy and great art” here
And do check out Kornfeld’s important book on her work sharing visual art with people in prison, Cellblock Visions
March 18, 2009
The Poetic Justice Project
By Deborah Tobola
(“Robin” by John Schiavron, pastel)
While I was working as an artist/facilitator with California’s Arts in Corrections program, I often wished there were a reentry arts program that I could refer paroling inmates to, a place where they could find a creative community and continue on a path many of them had begun only [...]
March 11, 2009
Sean Case: from Ojibway Correctional Facility in Michigan
I’ve always needed to write – to think out loud across the page, agonize over the smallest turn of a phrase, edit the same stanza over and over until I’ve come as close as I can to perfection or abandoned it in favor of some fresher verse. But it wasn’t until my incarceration that I [...]
