Sarah Lawrence Presents Arts and the Inside: Incarceration and Expression through Writing, Film, and Dance
By Judith Schwartzstein, Director of Public Affairs, Sarah Lawrence College
Mar. 30, 2016: The world of incarceration will be in the spotlight through readings, film, dance, and discussion panels on Saturday, April 2, at Sarah Lawrence College.
The presentation will take place from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm in the Suzanne Werner Wright Theatre in the Performing Arts Center.
The day will include a talk by Ted Conover, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing, which chronicles Conover's year as a guard in one of America's most notorious prisons.
Film producer Judith Katz will lead a discussion following a screening of What I Want My Words to Do to You, a documentary about a writing class taught by playwright Eve Ensler, author of the play The Vagina Monologues, in a maximum security prison.
Audiences will also hear from participants in Sarah Lawrence's own prison writing workshop programs Right to Write and Voices Unbroken.
The day will conclude with excerpts from In My Shoes, a Judy Dworin Performance Project that involves dance and spoken word performances by women released from the York Correctional Institution who ask the audience to experience incarceration.
The schedule for the day is:
11:00 am to noon: Ted Conover talk
12:15 pm to 12:45 pm: Right to Write readings
1:00 pm to 1:30 pm: Voices Unbroken
2:00 pm to 4:00 pm: Screening of the film What I Want My Words to Do to You
4:15 pm to 5:00 pm: Excerpts from In My Shoes
This event is sponsored by the president's office, dean of the college, the dance program, the theatre program, the graduate program in women's history, the graduate program in dance writing, and the Anita L. Stafford Office of Community Partnerships and Service Learning Program.
Reservations are required. Call 914-395-2412 or email
Pictured here: An entrance to Sarah Lawrence College.
Photo by N. Bower
