Steve Durland and I just returned from a week in Philadelphia where we presented at the Arts in Criminal Justice conference. It was the first national convening in this field, and the first time many of these corresponding colleagues had ever seen each other face to face. It was exhilarating and exhausting, felt like the birth of something really great. Just where we like to be. I will be writing more about this and about another meeting I took part in for the first two days of the week: a group of artists and activists who were brought together by Working films to talk about Appalshop's multimedia initiative, "1000 Kites." It was a brainstorm about how each of us could use Kites in our own work. Working Films (which rolls out independent media projects and connects them with activism) described it as a focus group, but I had never participated in anything like it. It was really stimulating to meet with so many hardcore prison-reform activists and talk about how arts elements really benefit their work. More about all this later...

   

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