• • To create, pilot & disseminate a practical educational model (a multilingual, multimedia learning package) for the use of theatre & video inputs into adult prison education across Europe;
• • To organise practical workshops for exchanges of information and best practice between centres experienced in using theatre & video in adult prison education and those with limited experience, especially in eastern & central Europe;
• • To develop strategies for promoting the use of theatre & video in adult prison education in centres where it not previously been used;
  
• • To develop an effective framework for employing the rich traditions of European theatre & film, especially those of eastern Europe, in particular through the involvement of professional theatre & film practitioners in adult prison education;
• • To develop the use of drama & digital video to explore and analyse personal and group reactions and relationships within practical drama work in prison education
• • To combat racism, xenophobia and other negative attitudes towards fellow human beings through the creative use of theatre & video in adult prison education across Europe.

The Partnership

The partnership consists of two kinds of centres:

1. 1. those with experience of using theatre and digital video in prison education and/or professional theatrical production who could provide exemplary information material, such as the London Shakespeare Workout, the Prison Arts Foundation in Belfast, the Austrian Galli-Group, the Groenland Centre in Oslo and the Stockholm Kulturskolen;
   
   
2. 2. partners with limited theatre and digital video experience, particularly in eastern and central Europe, who would be interested in developing practical ways of using the performing arts in prison education – these include Lovech Prison in Bulgaria, the Daugvapils Probation Service and the Vilnius Pedagogical University.

Main activities

• • Local, national and trans-national exchanges and workshops between organisations and practitioners concerned with the promotion of theatre & video in adult prison education;
• • Transnational meetings & conferences which provide opportunities for sharing current good practice of experienced partners and identifying issues and problems for the less experienced;
• • The development of appropriate strategies for employing theatre & video in adult prison education;
• • The production and dissemination of exemplary material in a variety of formats, exploring and promoting the use of theatre & drama in adult prison education across Europe;
• • The testing and piloting of this material in appropriate locations and contexts, to evaluate its suitability for use in adult prison education, especially in eastern Europe – in this, experienced partners will mentor the less experienced via electronic and other communication methods;
• • The creation of an ongoing interactive partnership of adult prison education and professional theatre & media workers;
• • The establishment of a project website and other forms of electronic communication to promote and disseminate the use of theatre & video in adult prison education across Europe.

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