New Programs During the most recent cycle, five new programs have been introduced with the help of our volunteers, including philosophy, mental health, screenwriting, and computer science informational programs. Some Achievements In exciting news, art created by the inmates in the Art Knows program were put on display in the MoMA as part of a…

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What Does it All Mean? “Dear fellow philosophers,Welcome! I’m so excited to welcome you all to the first issue of Introduction to Philosophy. This program will be a brief introduction to a selection of philosophical questions for those of you, who like me, are intrigued and obsessed with thinking about these problems whether life has…

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“Welcome to “Writing a Film Treatment”. I’m excited to be working with you. The goal of this course is to prepare you to develop an original idea for a film script. In this first mailing, we will study foundational storytelling concepts and then use those ideas to generate “loglines” for potential scripts…” Read the first…

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“Avoid bringing the queen out early.” “Develop your pieces as rapidly as possible.” “Control the center.” Learn chess strategies and read chess news by opening the PDF below!

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“Mental health, moods, and feelings cannot be separated from the biology of the body. There are biological components to our mental health…” “You are receiving a packet focused on the brain and mental health. This is not a quick read and I advise you to read it slowly and perhaps read it a few times.…

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“Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.” Jules Renard “The journal program began 15 years ago, and I have been reading many of your journals over that time. And that have read and witnessed the insights that come to many of the people who regularly journal and find ways to express themselves…

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“CS is so much more than computers, cubicles, and the huge blocks of code we see in movies – it means creating fashion technology, technologies to help disabled people and underserved communities, technologies toconnect people around the globe like health professionals or to build communities that wouldn’t have existed previously, and more. CS means having…

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I am no longerthe woman I was back then.Wife. Daughter. Shadow. Elizabeth Wolf An exciting new program this cycle is a chapbook club made possible by author Elizabeth Wolf, who has donated 300 copies of her poetry chapbook Did You Know. A chapbook is a book of poems that relate to a central theme and…

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“This is your deepest self calling to you, and beckoning you to come home to yourself .” In the Buddhist tradition, solitary retreats are considered precious. Western practitioners pay up to $9,000 to do a 3 year solitary retreat, some with no contact with other humans, mail permitted only once or twice a month. They…

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Greetings! I hope this newsletter finds you well and keeping safe! The last newsletter (summer 2020) focused on art in the time of pandemics. Obviously, we cannot yet leave the pandemic behind, but we can change the channel for a respite. This newsletter will focus on art that has many names; primitive art, outsider art,…

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