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Prisoner Arts in Context is an international, multi-stakeholder symposium bringing together academics, practitioners, artists, activists, government and prison service officials to explore the creative lives of people serving time in prisons across the world
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Seminar Series
Aesthetics & Justice
Aesthetic Encounters in Court
Aesthetic Imaginaries of Law and Justice
Aesthetics and Justice Seminars are co-organised
and co-sponsored by the Centre for Critical
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Earlier Events
You may be interested in some of the earlier events our team have been involved with recently
Programme of events
As part of the Captive Arts project, the project team are vey excited to be able to bring you a series of high level and international discussions and events over the next few months to address our scholarly, activist and practitioner understandings of incarcerated artists and of creative expression in prisons.
Prisoner Arts in Context: Global Perspectives, an international symposium
Thursday 21 November 2024, Warwick Arts Centre & Faculty of Arts Building
Prisoner Arts in Context is an international, multi-stakeholder symposium bringing together academics, practitioners, artists, activists, government and prison service officials to explore the creative lives of people serving time in prisons across the world.
Led by the Captive Arts research team at Warwick, with contributions from We Roar & supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, an ESRC Impact Acceleration Account fund and Arts Council UK, this one-day event is centred around interactive panel discussions, performance and exhibited works, that engage with Prisoner Arts’ distinctive features. Explored across visual mediums, theatre, music, poetry, and other creative outputs and from a range of lived experience and global academic, practitioner, artist, activist, government and prison service perspectives.
The symposium draws attention to the challenges faced by individuals participating in and delivering arts in criminal justice institutions, the internationalisation of prisoner arts, issues of access, visibility, and anonymity encountered by incarcerated and formerly incarcerated artists. As well as the prospects for the arts in criminal justice institutions, it also covers questions of advocacy and impact exchange in this area of work. To see our invited speakers and panel themes, see hereLink opens in a new window.