Clean Break’s Writers: Here. There. Then. Now.
A selection of Clean Break’s writers come together to share what they have learnt from working on the complex theme of women and crime.
Women’s Support Centre: New Beginnings Art Awards 2019
Every year the Women’s Support Centre, Woking hosts an Art Awards for women to submit artwork from in prison or through visiting the Centre. The entries are exhibited at the Lightbox Gallery.
Sharing real life stories of women who have faced and survived coercive control
This winter, to coincide with the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, a new play tackling coercive controlling domestic abuse will be screened, for free, online and in venues across the UK . Watch the trailer About the play Developed by Open Clasp Theatre Company, Rattle Snake is based on real life […]
Sweatbox
Clean Break’s Sweatbox invites you to enter the back of a prison van in which three women inside share their stories of arrival and anticipation as they are transported from court to prison, from prison to prison, from prison to court.
The RSA Northampton: the arts and social change
Hear more about project led by professional artists and RSA Fellows alongside C2C Social Action, a Northamptonshire charity providing support to any individual at any stage of the criminal justice system.
Clean Break information day
Clean Break is holding a day of workshops, talks and performances exploring the work of the women and criminal justice theatre company and its Members programme.
Women’s prison activism symposium
One-day symposium bringing together researchers, creative thinkers, artists, and wider communities interested in policing and criminal justice with a particular focus on women’s transnational prison activism.
Exploring women’s imprisonment through art
A collaborative project and art exhibition from academic Dr Susy Menis, Birkbeck School of Law, and artists Noriko Hisazumi and Fabiana Vigna.
Creating change through theatre with women on probation
Hampshire Cultural Trust (HCT) has been awarded £20,000 from the Hampshire Police and Crime Commissioner’s Safer Communities Fund for the pioneering arts intervention programme, Creating Change, now in its third year of operation. Developed by HCT, alongside BearFace Theatre and Hampshire and Isle of Wight Community Rehabilitation Company, Creating Change uses drama to encourage women […]
Films explore Holloway Prison
Echoes of Holloway Prison and Journey for Justice showcase three films that explore the stories of HMP Holloway, its people and its closure.