Since 1990 PCAP members, working in teams of 2 or 3, have facilitated workshops in the arts in Michigan prisons and juvenile facilities and in urban high schools.   We open creative spaces in institutions where they don’t exist and enter equally with the other participants, bringing, as they do, our individual energies and skills.  The emphasis is on original plays, art, writing, dance, and music, on respect, on belief in everyone who enters  the space, on mutual risk as artists, and on supportive, challenging interaction.   

As of September 2006, we have facilitated the production and performance of 429 original plays, 210 of them in 22 prisons, 133 in 5 juvenile facilities, and 86 in urban high schools.  Since 1998 we have facilitated 115 creative writing workshops leading to public readings, 69 of them in 15 prisons, 31 in 5 juvenile facilities, and 15 in urban high schools.  And we have facilitated 66 art workshops in 9 prisons and 4 juvenile facilities.  We have facilitated 6 music and 2 dance workshops in prisons and numerous workshops in dance, music, photography, quilt-making, and video in juvenile facilities and high schools.

Our practice is very considered, our methods very clear and responsible.  Our teams in training meet every week to discuss their work and seek advice; every team meets with other teams least every other week with other teams for the same purpose.