Beyond the Bars is a 3CR community project designed to give indigenous prisoners a voice. Encompassing music and spoken word workshops facilitated by indigenous presenters from 3CR, the project then culminates in six radio shows broadcast live from regional Victorian prisons during NAIDOC Week 8-12 July.
Beyond the Bars connects indigenous prisoners to the wider community and is a remarkable radio event that gives voice to the experience of indigenous inmates serving time in Victorian prisons.
For local singer/songwriter and one of the founders of the project, Kutcha Edwards, the broadcasts are an important way to give voice to indigenous prisoners. “Why is it that Australia’s indigenous peoples are the most imprisoned people per capita in the world? To hear the answers to that question, you need to tune in to Beyond the Bars.”
Beyond the Bars is Australia’s only live prison broadcast and this year involves over 100 men, women and young people from the inside, sharing stories, songs, opinions and poems from within the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre, Barwon Prison, Fulham Correctional Centre, Marngoneet Correctional Centre, Loddon Prison and Port Phillip Prison.
Beyond the Bars receives financial support from the Community Broadcasting Foundation, the City of Melbourne, the Victoria Law Foundation and Corrections Victoria, Department of Justice.
BEYOND THE BARS 2013
Mon 8 July 11am-2pm – Dame Phyllis Frost Centre (Deer Park)
Tue 9 July 11am-2pm – Barwon Prison (Lara, near Geelong)
Wed 10 July 10am-12 – Fulham Corrections Centre (near Sale, Gippsland)
Wed 10 July 12-2pm – Loddon Prison (Castlemaine)
Thu 11 July 12-4pm – Port Phillip Prison (Laverton)
Fri 12 July 11am-2pm – Marngoneet Correction Centre (Lara, near Geelong)
CD1
1. Introduction to Beyond the Bars - Gilla McGuiness
2. Between Black And White - Kylie
3. Babies In Prison - Mooney
4. Loss Of A Mother - Margaret
5. Gone But Not Forgotten - Margaret
6. Losing Good Ones - Patricia
7. Only Three - Kelly
8. My Best Friends Daughter - Kelly
9.Raising Boys - Bianca
10. Get My Son Back - Kerrin
11. Ten Little Fingers - by Kerrin read by Flo
12. Kangan Tafe - Belinda
13.Was It Worth It? - Kerrin
14.To Troy From Mooney - read by Flo
15. Thanks For Coming In - Erica
16. DPFC Cheerios
17. Down City Streets - group song from DPFC
18. Institutionalised - Travis
19. Come Home - Travis
20. Connecting To Family - Reese
21 Education - Midnight
23 Goodbye - group song from Barwon
24 So Precious, So Innocent - James
25 In Cuffs - James
26 Shane's Song - Shane on Guitar, James on Dig
27 My Dad - Robert
28 Latchie Latchie Land - Jason
30 For My Brothers Inside - Aaron
31 A Job Waiting - Craig
32 To All The Young Ones - Jason
CD2
01 One Last Time - Geoff
02 A Better Man - Coogs
03 Remembering Jody - James
04 In Their Hearts - Bowie
05 I Pray - Troy
06 Being Brown - Mick
07 In The System - Mick
08 A New Start - Wado
10 Dig Song - Nigel
11 I'm Sorry - Kelvin
12 Only Misery Owns Me Now - Kelvin
13 Barriers - Chris and Ron
14 Robbie's Song - Robbie
15 Sitting In Jail - Jarvid
16 Look Back On My Past - Bradley
17 Falling Away - Syd
19 Every Day Life Struggles - Mr Morgs
20 Finding Culture - Jason
21 Man In The Glass - Jason
22 My Grandfather - Laurence
23 Prison Changes A Man - Rocket
26 Port Phillip Prison - Cheerios
27 My Island Home - Bear
