Author Talk: Resilience and Reflection – Navigating Trauma and Incarceration through Words
This talk on the 11th October at 7.30pm, offers a unique opportunity to engage with two powerful and award winning voices in contemporary literature who together explore the modern-day challenges faced by an under pressure prison system.
Andy West, author of A Life Inside (‘Authentic, fascinating and deeply moving.’ Terry Waite), and Lucia Osborne-Crowley, author of The Lasting Harm (‘Will make you think about trauma in a new light’ EVENING STANDARD) bring profound insights into the human experience of our criminal justice system as they discuss to what extent it is working for both perpetrators of crime and their victims.
Andy West’s father and brother were in prison, and he now works with prisoners exploring the philosophical and emotional realities of the life within the prison system. Osborne-Crowley was the victim of a serious crime as a teenager, and throughout her work she examines the enduring impact of trauma on the body and mind of the victims of crime.
Before and after the talk there will be an opportunity to view the remarkable artwork Cell Quilt; produced by Fine Cell Work, a charity that provides educational, and employment opportunities that prepare prisoners to successfully reintegrate into the community after release.
Making Choices – an interactive performance exploring youth criminal justice
Winchester Cathedral premieres Making Choices on the 10 October at 7.30pm. Performed by BareFace Theatre, Artswork and the Point Ensemble Youth Theatre Making Choices explores issues that influence young people (sometimes unknowingly) to venture into criminality. They ask the question: “how can we as a community respond to youth crime and address its causes?”
This extraordinary evening includes animation, interactive participation, and improvisation as BearFace introduce Buddy and Joe to the audience, two extraordinary characters developed by prisoners in HMP/YOI Winchester as part of their Choices programme, supported by the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Police and Crime Commission.
Panel Discussion: Behind Closed Doors – the journey from arrest to sentence
The University of Winchester’s Faculty of Law Crime and Justice welcomes a panel discussion entitled Behind Closed Doors – the Journey from Arrest to Sentence.
In this country policing is at the gift of the public and justice is open – anyone can observe a court case from the public gallery – but for understandable reasons many aspects of the criminal justice system happen behind closed doors. There is little or no education about how the criminal justice system functions and it can be a confusing and frightening place. Behind Closed Doors explores those parts of the criminal justice system that are unseen or little understood. – exposing the unknowns and the uncovering the safeguards and thinking that permeate the sector.
The event takes place at the Stripe Auditorium on 9 October from 7.30pm, hosted by Amelia Riviere, magistrate and former High Sheriff of Hampshire and Bill Davies, Dean of the University’s Faculty of Law, Crime and Justice – who will be joined by some of the South’s most important and influential figures working in today’s criminal justice system including: Judge Angela Morris; Chief Inspector Korine Bishop; Chloe Jay, Shentons Solicitors; Nick Tucker, 12CP Barristers; Liam Hunter, CPS; and Carrie Ord, Winchester Crown Court.
Death at the Cathedral – Can you solve the mystery? – SOLD OUT
The University of Winchester stages another of its popular whodunnits – this time the scene of the crime is the city’s cathedral. The departments of Policing, Criminology, Forensics and Law have teamed up once again to create a murder mystery for Winchester Cathedral’s annual Law Week (5-13 October).
Last year’s The Body on the Podium was among the highlights of the week and Natacha Harding, Head of Department of Policing, Criminology and Forensics, has again channeled her inner Agatha Christie to pen a gruesome scenario.
Schools Programme
Throughout Law Week 2024 schools from across Hampshire will be taking part in law related activities. The Hampshire and Isle of Wight Youth Commission deliver their young people led crime safety workshops to secondary schools while the National Justice Museum takes over part of Winchester Crown Court as it re-enacts historical trials with nearly 200 primary school children.
Booking
To find out more about these and other Law Week events and to book a place visit Winchester Cathedral | Law Week Festival (winchester-cathedral.org.uk) or call 01962 857 275.
Image: Law Sunday service at Winchester Cathedral taken by Joe Low.