Author: William A. Noguera File Type: epub An ABA Indies Introduce Top Ten Title for Winter 2018William A. Noguera has spent thirty-four years at the notorious San Quentin Prison, home to the nations largest and deadliest death row. Each day, men plot against you and your life rests on a razors edge. In Escape Artist, he describes his personal growth as a man and artist and shares his insights into daily life and the fight to survive in the underworld of prison culture. After being sentenced to death, he arrived at San Quentin Prison and was thrown into a rat-infested cellit was there that he discovered the key to his escape art. Over the next three decades, Noguera rebelled against conventional prison behavior, and instead forged the code he lives by todayaccepting responsibility for his actions, and a self-imposed discipline of rehabilitation. In the process, he has explored his capacity to bring focus and clarity to his artistic vision. Escape Artist exposes the violence, politics and everyday existence within the underbelly of society that is prison life.In an unprecedented narrative, Noguera reveals the emotional and heart-wrenching loss that landed him on death row and the journey he has taken to become an award-winning artist, speaker, and authora tale of one mans transformation through tragedy. **Review Escape Artist is a gripping, sad, inspirational and amazing story of being on death row in Americas worst prison and, more interestingly, the emotional journey that got Mr. Noguera into prison and how he evolved into a world-class artist and rehabilitated human being. This book is fascinating on many levels.Chris Morrow, Northshire Bookstore (Manchester Center, VT) The book is a chilling look through the eyes of a man who has nothing to lose in this life except going tohis grave without being understood.Noguera is a gifted storyteller whose story is not only valuable, but must be told.*Forbes.com ...An inmate in a brutal, violent climate for more than 30 years and never formally trained as a painter or writer, [William A. Noguera] nonetheless produces expressive, award-winning art that is astonishing, as is the clarity and well-crafted technique of his literary voice.Bay Area News Group William Nogueras road from the world to San Quentin prison was a hard one. Even harder was life in the confines of the prison for 34 years, on death row, awaiting his end. But that life brought him to a realization about the value of life and he turned to art to express his new-found ideas, insights and feelings. Now an award-winning artist and speaker, as well as author, he wants to share the story of his move from roid-rage, caused by his use of steroids, to the life a new life found where he expected his physical life to end. This is an insightful, encouraging autobiography that explains much and asks some hard questions about our system of justice and what it means to be a criminal. Linda Bond, Aunties Bookstore (Spokane, WA) This Memoir is rich with sincere storytelling. It is inspiring to know after reading that even in the harsh and unforgiving place like prison, it is possible for someone to produce such a creative expression. His art goes beyond the physical bars and expresses themes that represent his experiences and ideas. Readers will finds that William A. Noguera is not only an award-winning visual Artist he is also a model of compassion and generosity. Alyson Turner, Source Booksellers (Detroit, MI) Escape Artist*is a riveting self-portrait of a man with tremendous talent as a writer and artist, who takes us into the dark, and darker realms of American prisons. His candid, colorful, and often chilling description of the life that led to San Quentins infamous death row is one of the most compelling accounts Ive seen. Peter B. Collins,veteran San Francisco radio host and podcaster at PeterBCollins.com William A. Noguera is proof that the arts transcend the worst hells on earth. Ive been saying this all my life. And Im not the only one. This book begs the questioncan we become more humane, more human, in face of the inhumanity around us? Noguera did, confronting his traumas and the pain he caused others, facing death and choosing life. Luis J. Rodriguez, author of Always Running La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A. and It Calls You Back An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing About the Author As an award-winning artist, author and speaker, William A. Noguera has gained international attention and received accolades for his photographic hyper-realistic ink compositions, profound mixed-media paintings, hybridized abstract expressionism and neo-constructivist wall sculpturesexhibiting in Paris, New York and San Francisco. Noguera has been the subject of over 35 articles in such publications as Forbes, The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, and BOOM! A Journal of California. Besides being an artist and lecturer, Noguera is a former Hapkido Middle-Weight Champion. Since writing his memoir, Noguera has aspired to help others through lectures at MBA programs and as a radio guest speaker, concentrating on prevention and intervention. Nogueras inspiration is simple pay his debt to society by creating art for charitable causes and encouraging others, and writing and speaking about what it takes to make progressive self-change and the continuous effort that is required for someone to have a positive influence on others. Nogueras talks share an eye-opening, thought-provoking narrative on the realities of wrongdoing, prison life, ethical responsibility, prison gangs, their culture, the ramifications of destructive behavior, and the rewards of constructive rehabilitation.

Author: Sandra Umathum File Type: pdf Jerome Bels Disabled Theater, a dance piece featuringeleven actors with cognitive disabilities from ZurichsTheater Hora, has polarized audiences worldwide. Some have celebrated the performance as an outstanding exploration of presence and representation others have criticized it as a contemporary freak show. This impassioned reception provokes important questions about the role of people with cognitive disabilities within theater and danceand within society writ large. Using Disabled Theater as the basis for a broad, interdisciplinary discussion of performance and disability, this volume explores the intersections of politics and aesthetics, inclusion and exclusion, and identity and empowerment. Can the stage serve as a place of emancipation for people with disabilities? To what extent are performers with disabilities able to challenge and subvert the rules of society? What would a performance look like without an ideology of ability? The book includes contributions by Jerome Bel, Kai van Eikels, Kati Kro, Andre Lepecki, Lars Nowak, Yvonne Rainer, Gerald Siegmund, Yvonne Schmidt, Sandra Umathum, Scott Wallin, Benjamin Wihstutz, and the actors of Theater Hora. **