PRISON PERFORMING ARTS
Programs
Program 1 [2020]
Adult programs - PPA serves incarcerated men and women in 3 Missouri state prisons: NECC, WERDCC, and MECC, offering workshops, rehearsals, and live performances of classic, contemporary and original plays by inmates. PPA also works in a community reentry facility operated by the Department of Corrections: Transition Center of St. Louis (TCSTL). The Theatre Projects are performances at each facility for an audience that includes prison inmates and staff, participating inmates' families, PPA supporters, and community members. Other programs include visual art, spoken word poetry, and writing classes. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, in-person programs were suspended and PPA delivered programs through distance learning curriculum and virtual classes. For the 2020 calendar year adult inmate participants: 75; Alumni (returning citizen) participants: 16; inmate audience participants: 50; public audience participants: 100. Virtual performances streamed online reached 1,500 people in the community.GeographiesNot indicatedDatesJan 1, 2020 – Dec 31, 2020Source990No causes providedNo populations provided–$131.3KProgram 2 [2020]
Youth programs - PPA serves justice-involved young people at St. Louis City Juvenile Detention Center, Hogan Street Regional Youth Center, St. Louis City Justice Center and ST. Louis County Juvenile Detention Center, as well as youth involved with the Family Court's Detention Alternatives Program with a wide range of workshop and performance experiences in acting, dance, music and writing. PPA provides justice-involved youth with a series of performances by professional artists in music, dance, opera and theater. For calendar year 2020 St. Louis City Juvenile Detention Center participants: 50; Hogan Street Regional Youth Center participants: 75; Detention Alternatives Program participants: 10; St. Louis City Justice Center participants: 30; and St. Louis County Juvenile Detention Center participants: 110.GeographiesNot indicatedDatesJan 1, 2020 – Dec 31, 2020Source990No causes providedNo populations provided–$68.5KPrison Arts and Healing Program
Adult programs - Prison Performing Arts provided multidisciplinary arts programs to 146 incarcerated adults in three state prisons (Northeast Correctional Center, Women's Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center, and Missouri Eastern Correctional Center), the Transition Center of St. Louis, and re-entering citizens through its Alumni Theatre Company members across the country. Incarcerated artists perform plays for an audience of prison inmates, staff, families, and outside guests. Classes explore spoken word, poetry, and examples of short story literature as a doorway to self-expression and personal writing. The Arts & Healing program serves individuals completing their sentences with visual arts, writing, and theatre workshops designed to help participants work through the traumas associated with incarceration while building resilience, self-confidence, and creative skills as a healthy response to the stress of re-entry. The Alumni Theatre Company also provides kinship, stability and a creative outlet as members re-establish themselves in the community. Our programs reach approximately 2,000 audience members both public and incarcerated.GeographiesNot indicatedDatesJan 1, 2023 – Dec 31, 2023Source990No causes providedNo populations provided–$163.9K
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