Inside Out Presents: This Life

Paperback. English. Inside Out. 2014. NEW.

Through the project Inside Out, young offenders are introduced to life skills and self development through the arts. Through creative writing, poetry, dance, music and theatre youth in prison explore topics of relevance to them such as identity, family, violence and gender. Program participants solidify an understanding of who they are, exercise literacy skills, gain life skills and coping mechanisms, and develop accountability relationships in the context of the prison. At the end of a project cycle, the material developed in the workshops is compiled into a magazine, which is professionally produced and published. This magazine serves multiple purposes: it gives program participants a concrete sense of accomplishment, it allows a platform for the voice of the youth to be heard by their families, communities and the nation at large, and as such it is a tool through which we can raise awareness about juvenile justice and the issues youth in prison struggle with. Zines