Dr Niamh Malone and Dr Gary Anderson (from the School of Creative and Performing Arts, Liverpool Hope University) created the umbrella project HMP2Hope in 2018. This project involved Niamh and Gary delivering a prisoner-led educational programme at HMP Risley and HMP Liverpool. The objective of the project is to encourage prisoners to think of third level education as a real option during incarceration but especially on release. The prison population fall considerably below the national average level of education attainment. HMP2HOPE is an attempt to demystify university for prisoners and by providing taster sessions we hope they grow in confidence in participating in discussions and exploring diverse topics from philosophy and aesthetics. The men engaged in the history of ideas, paintings and philosophy through the puzzles and the accompanying podcasts
Background
This project involves 20 prisoners, 8 undergraduate students, Care Home Residents Living with Dementia, Novus (prison) staff, and 2 facilitators from Creative and Performing Arts and Hope Graduate
Theatre Company.
The prisoners were inspired by the Professors in Prison project (2021-2022) which looked at paintings from the ‘Dutch Golden Age. Drs Malone and Anderson worked with the prisoners and undergraduate students at the Creative Campus to record podcasts that explore the social, cultural, political and philosophical background of the paintings., The prisoners received a 1000-piece jigsaw to assemble alongside radio podcasts generated by Malone and Anderson, with contributions by Mike Moran and Celine Szita.
This project is valued for its potential to help with mental health, a most pressing issue in the criminal justice system. This current project is seen as a pilot and will be rolled out over the next year or so to prisons regionally and nationally.
Garden of Earthly Delights
by Hieronymus Bosch
Episode One
Episode Two
The Fight Between Carnival and Lent
by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Episode One
Episode Two
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