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​ARTS IN CORRECTIONS

ARTS FACILITATOR BEST PRACTICES
TOOLS FOR TEACHING INSIDE PRISON

Interactive Zoom workshops provide training in Arts Facilitators’ Best Practices through September 2 to November 11, 2021.

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ARTS IN CORRECTIONS PROGRAM

Strengthening Rehabilitation Through Arts & Culture

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Photography by Thatcher Hayward
The Medea Project is conducting a series of workshops through interactive ZOOM training sessions. The goal is to share with Teaching Artists 30 years of Medea Project Founder, Rhodessa Jones', experience working in correctional facilities in California, America, and throughout the world.  

​The Medea Project is supported by the Arts in Corrections program.  It is designed to have a positive impact on the social and emotional well-being of people experiencing incarceration and promote the healing and interpersonal transformation both inside and outside of the boundaries of institutions.​

Starting September 2, 2021, Teaching Artists (Arts Providers) can register for the Train-The-Trainer workshops that are rehabilitative in nature.  The curriculum will draw from Rhodessa Jones' groundbreaking Performance Methodology that instructs on working with disenfranchised populations. The methodology was most recently published in the book Black Acting Methods: Critical Approaches (2017, Routledge Press).  

Since the 1980s, Jones' contributions have spearheaded arts programs in institutions across the world. As profiled by the book, Imagining Medea: Rhodessa Jones & Theater for Incarcerated Women, the Medea Project brings performance workshops to incarcerated women (and women living with HIV) that have a transformative impact on recidivism and their lives
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ARTS FACILITATOR BEST PRACTICES

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TRAIN-THE-TRAINER WORKSHOPS
The Arts in Corrections curriculum will cover a series of workshops as follows:

         MEDEA WORKSHOP SERIES 101
         Nudging the Memory: Creating Performance with the Medea Project: Theatre for Incarcerated Women 
  • Medea Project Director/Founder Rhodessa Jones will introduce a 5–step Methodology for working with inmates.

         MEDEA WORKSHOP SERIES 102
         Like a Phoenix We Rise: From the OUTSIDE to the INSIDE
  • Former inmate teachers will teach about real life encounters and for Teaching Artists to develop tools, boundaries, coping mechanisms and cultural competency in custody settings.

         MEDEA WORKSHOP SERIES 103
         Navigating the Matrix
  • Medea Project core member teachers will explore strategies for staying sane and productive while teaching “inside” -- a world of unpredictability, shifting rules and unanticipated events.

WORKSHOP DETAILS

        What Dates?  Workshops will take place Thursdays, September 2 to November 11, 2021.
        What Times?  Workshops will take place 5:30 to 9:00pm.
        How Much? FREE
        How Many Workshops? Eleven (11)
  • Ten 3.5 hour Training Sessions will take place Thursdays, September 2 to November 4, 2021. 
  • One 2-hour Feedback Training Session for responses and presentations from Training Artists, and Evaluation will take place on Thursday, November 11, 2021.
        Student Stipends? The first students to sign up will receive a gift card.
        Who Can Attend? Currently, Teaching Artists from this list of Arts Providers may attend.
        However, if attendance is below the max, there may be an opportunity for other Teaching Artists to attend. 
        Register and request to join the wait list.
        How Do I Sign Up? Click the Registration Button. Please be sure to include your demographics and institutional affiliation.

        FOR MORE DETAILS, contact us.

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The Medea Project is a program of Cultural Odyssey a non-profit organization in San Francisco, California. 
This program is made possible by the California Arts Council.
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Highlights from the Rhodessa Jones Interdisciplinary Arts Residency
University of Wisconsin Madison Division of Arts


Rhodessa Jones & The Medea Project
A CULTURAL ODYSSEY PROGRAM
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Post Office Box 156620

S.F., CA  94115
(415) 292-1850
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