#17: Kate Powers // Rehabilitation Through the Arts
The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast
Gillian Pensavalle
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2016
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Our guest this week is Kate Powers, a facilitator and teacher with Rehabilitation Through the Arts at Sing Sing and Fishkill Correctional Facilities. We talk about how Kate uses Shakespeare and Hamilton to inspire inmates. We were so moved talking to Kate about the work she does that we decided to skip Chernow, so the book discussion will pick up next week.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone. Hello hello welcome back to the Hamelcast. I'm Jillian. I'm Bianca. How are you? I'm good. I'm okay. I'm really good. |
| 0:17.0 | All right, yeah, we're talking about, we will eventually be talking about the Federalist paper, so Bianca so kindly brought over some federalist wine. |
| 0:23.4 | I did. |
| 0:24.4 | This lovely afternoon. |
| 0:25.4 | It's a cabernet Sauvignon and we have Ben Franklin on the label. |
| 0:30.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:31.1 | I thought it would be a nice festive beverage. |
| 0:34.0 | It's excellent. |
| 0:35.0 | It's nice and bold and red, not unlike this Mercury retrograde that we're going through. |
| 0:38.9 | See how it all comes back with the technical stuff? |
| 0:42.1 | But okay, so I don't't know I'm super excited about our |
| 0:44.4 | guest today and I I don't I hope that doesn't sound not genuine because we say |
| 0:48.8 | that a lot but everyone that we have here is very exciting and amazing and interesting. |
| 0:54.0 | And a couple weeks ago, maybe months ago now, we retweeted a link from someone who works with inmates |
| 1:01.8 | in theater and there was this beautifully written article about |
| 1:06.0 | how she introduced them to Hamilton and how they reacted. It was two months ago I actually |
| 1:10.5 | just found the tweet it was April 1st. uh yeah so we are joined by K powers today she is a stage director she's worked in |
| 1:17.6 | New York and regionally across the United States she's been a facilitator |
| 1:21.1 | and teacher with rehabilitation through the arts at Sing Sing and Fishkill |
| 1:24.6 | correctional facilities since 2009. |
| 1:27.2 | And she's been a drama league directing fellow and a Fulbright scholar in Shakespeare. |
| 1:32.0 | So welcome Kate, thank you so much for for skiping with us today. |
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