Today is Christmas, a day of celebration and happiness, but my day was nothing of the sort. Instead it was extremely depressing and violent. It started first thing this morning, when I was awakened to the screams of a man being beat half to death by the sticks of correctional officers. The screams were so [ Read More ]
By Kenyatta
This week, Mercy College/Hudson Link held their commencement for the class of 2009 at Sing Sing. Fernando Bermudez, Carlton Brown, Antione Doran, Mosi Eagle, David Garcia, William Jamison, Christopher kelly, Edward Leary, Wai Liang, Francisco Lopez, Lloyd Narraine, Christopher O’Neill, Chris Payton, Bisham Persaud, Shawn Pratt, Richard Prittler, Keith Reid, and Gary Wheeler [ Read More ]
In gallery cells, enclosed without hopin’.
Chipped-gray painted doors creakily open.
Careful of collisions in the tiniest space,
Mindless bodies move, anguish on their face,
Climbing concrete stairs in a slow single file.
Zombies walking down their very last mile,
So many bodies, with shirttails being tucked,
Pockets being patted, virgin to be plucked,
Sing-Sing, on the chow!
Like chain gangs moving on the [ Read More ]
YANGTZE REPERTORY THEATRE OF AMERICA
“In The Silence Of The Heart”
a family drama written and directed by Joanna Chan.
Play was created for the inmates in Sing Sing Correctional Facility
and was first produced there by Rehabilitation Through The Arts.
In English/Spanish with Chinese subtitles.
WHERE AND WHEN:
May 28 to June 14, 2009
Theater for the New City, 155 First [ Read More ]
