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...Although homeless people might seem like unlikely actors, Yoho Myrvaagnes ’01 saw acting as a way to help them express their concerns and frustrations. With pluck and patience, he has brought theater to people whose daily lives are usually concerned with finding food and warmth...
Fresh out of college, Myrvaagnes set out to create “The Out-Cast Project,” a dramatic troupe of homeless individuals who would learn and employ theater techniques to communicate their stories, he says...
...Cast Project was based both on Sellars’ philosophy of art as an instrument of democracy, and the work of the Los Angeles Poverty Department, a theater that featured monologues by homeless people...
...last spring, a few months after appearing in a TIME IN DEPTH story about the challenges facing ex-convicts, Jean Sanders evaluated his options. Compared with most men just out of prison, he had it all. After a year of scraping and pleading, he had moved out of a homeless shelter and into a rented room in Brooklyn, N.Y. He had apologized to his mother and grown daughters for his years of drug dealing and addiction, and despite a sense of foreboding, they had taken him back. He had finally found a job, as a gas-station attendant...
...name, the 1973 arrest and a wanted notice from the South Fallsburg, NY, police - feats impossible using the ink-and-card files employed until IAFIS was launched in 1999 "He thought after so long we weren't looking for him," says Lt. John Calvallo, who located Martinez in a homeless shelter. "Now he's sitting in our county jail...