How to bring Barred from Life to your community

If you are interested in bringing Barred from Life to your community yet do not know where to begin, consider the following:

1. Contact David Popalisky and Cookie Ridolfi about how to tailor a performance to your community.

2. Contact people in your local Dance or Theatre Departments or Law School who might share your enthusiasm for Barred from Life and become part of a team to make a performance happen.

3. Consider possible theater spaces for a performance. Most universities have excellent theatre spaces. Even some high schools have possible theatres. (Check the theatre technical specifications to confirm a theatre's potential).

4. Remember that Barred from Life is often a package deal that can include visits to classes around the university. There can be talks by the artists and often exonerees from the show, as well as special lectures by Cookie Ridolfi on wrongful conviction and how innocence projects around the country are working to address this issue or master dance classes by David J. Popalisky.

5. Consider funding sources to help underwrite a performance. In-kind donations of a theatre space is a significant contribution. Lodging of performers and exonerees could be in someone's home as well as paid lodging.

6. Consider regional universities or organizations who might want to co-sponsor a performance and join your team to share funding and promotional responsibilities.

"There were times of great anger. I was standing along side my bunk one day leaning over reading...and I realized my jaws on my teeth were locked and I realized it was anger/hatred. If you don't get that together you are going to burn yourself up. And from then on I began to cultivate equanimity."

- DELBERT TIBBS