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Wednesday, September 02, 2009
Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project to hold Screening and Fundraiser in Tuscaloosa
AUBURN, AL. (Sept 3, 2009) - The Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project (APAEP), in the Department of Psychology in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University, in conjunction with the Creative Writing Program at the University of Alabama, will be holding a fundraiser on September 30, 2009 at the Bama Theatre in Tuscaloosa.
There will be a happy hour at 6 p.m. followed by the screening of the documentary film The Dhamma Brothers at 7 p.m., and a panel question and answer after the screening. Suggested donations for the viewing are $8 for students and $12 for all others.
The Dhamma Brothers tells a dramatic tale of human potential and transformation. The film follows the stories of 36 prisoners at the Donaldson Correctional Facility in west Jefferson, County, Alabama, as they participate in a 10-day intensive meditation program. It challenges the assumptions about the nature of prisons as places of punishment rather than rehabilitation.
All funds raised from the screening and sale of APAEP anthologies will benefit the educational programming of this outreach program.
The Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project offers classes in the arts and humanities to incarcerated people in Alabama, and has done so since 2002. APAEP believes that arts and humanities education opportunities provide a foundation for significant human development and that this opportunity is greatly needed for individuals in Alabama's prisons.
APAEP is a nationally-recognized prison arts and education program has been acknowledged by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts. APAEP receives funding for arts and humanities programming from the Alabama State Council on the Arts, the Alabama Humanities Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham, and the Support the Arts Car Tag Fund for the State of Alabama, among others.
For more information on the program, visit www.auburn.edu/apaep.
Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project
226 Thach Hall
Auburn, University, AL 36849-5214
For more information, contact: Kyes Stevens
334-844-8946 (office)
334-703-6854 (cell)
334-844-4447 (fax)