October 1-7 is Banned Book Week. First established in 1982, it is a week that promotes awareness and celebrates the freedom to read. For more than 40 years the American Library Association (ALA) has used this week to spotlight the […]

JDPP’s New Beginnings program is a unique 10-week arts engagement with women and men who have returned to the community from carceral settings joining Trinity College students enrolled in a course in Human Rights Studies. The program is also in […]

Dear JDPP friend, When we started our performance residencies at York Correctional Institution in 2005, we were permitted to take the piece that we had developed at York, Time In, out to the public. It was performed by the JDPP […]

Sharing Lives Art Matters (SLAM) is our outreach to youth currently residing at the Bridgeport and Hartford juvenile detention facilities. JDPP teaching artists meet weekly throughout the year with the youth and engage in various writing, movement, and visual art […]

Eyes Wide Open A few weeks ago, I finished reading Sy Montgomery’s The Soul of an Octopus–a captivating personal account of the deep intelligence and emotional capacity of octopuses. I was totally surprised by Sy’s well-told story of her experiences […]