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Conversations That Dare You
A Time to Kill
(16:00)

Once our Beyond Bars Fellows began to work with the concept of Conversations that Dare You, we were able to apply this to almost every reading of a new work in progress that came out of our master workshops.  From the moment ShaRize shared his "A Time to Kill," which took everyone's breath away in terms of the fullness of his entry into each moment, we knew that this would be one of our primary conversations, to share along with the work that engendered it.  We knew that the depth which which ShaRize allows us to walk in his shoes allows us to become him in a way that allows us to imagine our own selves in his shoes.

 

We invite you to listen to this sixteen minute video with your own writing circle, to start your own conversation about where we situate judgement when we look back on the unspeakable... 

We invite you to watch the official performance of the final piece from Time Out of Joint

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This website was launched as part of "Writing Beyond the Prison: Reimagining the Carceral Ecosystem with Incarcerated Authors," a public humanities collaboration with the Humanities Institute at Stony Brook and the United Black Families Scholarship Foundation, supported by a Sustaining Public Engagement Grant awarded by the American Council of Learned Societies with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. It has enjoyed funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, Humanities New York with support from the Mellon Foundation, Flagstar Foundation, and New York State Council on the Arts.

We invite you to explore new ways of listening for narrative shape, to prepare you for moving from engaging groups from oral imaging to writing opening moments and scenes.

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