Maine Inside Out (MIO) artists facilitate the creation of original theater to engage the community in dialogue about issues related to incarceration. Chiara Libertore, one of Professor Emeritus William “Buzz” Alexander’s first students (LSA English Language and Literature) in what would become the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP), co-founded the MIO non-profit in 2007. MIO provides year round voluntary theater workshops for more than half of the young people at Long Creek Youth Development Center in South Portland, Maine. Its reintegration program for newly-released Maine Inside Out participants includes weekly community groups, mentoring, and transitional employment opportunities for youth in three Maine communities that incarcerate the highest number of young people. MIO’s transformative justice curriculum includes a new original production created by young adult artists debuting in 2017. Join us for a public performance and dialogue in the Residential College’s Keene Theater.

Co-sponsored by: College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Ginsberg Center; LSA Center for World Performance Studies; LSA Community Engaged Academic Learning; LSA Department of Afroamerican and African Studies; LSA Residential College; LSA Sociology; Telling It; and UM-Dearborn departments: Offie of Metropolitan Impact; Alpha Psi Lambda; Criminology and Criminal Justice Collective; Psychology Students Association; King Chavez Parks Visiting Professor Program.

Free - no tickets required