ARTS 3200: This 2019 KPU Inside-Out course will take place at KWÌKWÈXWELHP Healing Village, a minimum-security institution near Harrison Mills. With equal numbers of incarcerated and KPU students working together, faculty members Nicola Harwood (Creative Writing) and Kristi Wijnsma (Criminology) will address the theme, "What Separates Us." Students will engage with works of poets, playwrights and theorists, including writers from Indigenous, incarcerated, feminist, migrant and LGBTQ communities, who have struggled with the human experience of separation - from self, family, community, nature or Spirit. The class will respond to these works by creating their own writing and performance pieces. Students will challenge and explore concepts of redemption and reconciliation and truthfully confront the meaning of healing in their lives and their communities.

Through honesty, humour, generosity and creative risk students will discover commonalities and build a sense of shared community.

Students will also have the opportunity to participate in Community House together, led by Elders from the Sts'ailes community who support the men in the Healing Village. ​At the end of the class selections of the students' creative work will be presented to a gathering of community, family and friends. ​Guest presenters (pending funding) include two local Indigenous playwrights and a formally incarcerated author.