Today CAN brings you a story by Nina Billone about a collaboration that part of the "body of urban community-based performance that has emerged over the past three decades." In February 2007, San Francisco’s Intersection for the Arts, the city’s oldest alternative arts space, launched The Prison Project, a yearlong exploration of the California prison system. The Prison Project’s first public performance was an Open Process Event in which representatives from the Prison Activist Resource Center, California Prison Focus and The Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women entered into a public conversation with Intersection artists and staff. This essay emerges from Billone's Ph.D. dissertation research on U.S. penal-welfare performance in the 20th and 21st centuries. "In examining performance practices that spill over the boundaries between culture work and social work," she says, "I have been working to develop language with which to speak about performance practices that, like those of The Medea Project and Intersection for the Arts, are 'neither that, nor that.'" [LINK]