Traveling National Exhibition of Fine Arts Prisoners 2011, which began its journey in September 2011 at the Penitentiary of Murcia I (Sangonera the green), and ended their exhibition schedule on 23 March in the Sociocultural Center Area Prison Castellón II (Albocásser) with a balance of more than 4500 visitors on their way to Europe, according to the project Templar, traveled to Catalonia where were deposited the thirty works in the premises of the Penitentiary Centre of Lleida - Lleida to be exhibited within the cultural events planned by the Catalan penitentiary occasion of the celebrations of the book and the rose the next day April 24 will mark the annual meeting with the patron saint of Catalonia, Sant Jordi.
Templar Association of Jumilla (ATJ), developer of the painting and craft shows, whose protagonists are inmates in different prisons in the Spanish State, with particular attention to long-term and subject to the Suicide Prevention Program (PPS) attends the invitation of the Directorate of Lleida prison which houses an active nucleus of painters and craftsmen since 2008, active in the Phoenix Project, which has in the exercise 2011/2012 with the help of Social Work "the Caixa "painting activity that also comes with the participation of laureates altruistic painters such as Murcia 's jumillan Saorín Jesus Lozano, Dolores Balsalobre, or international Pedro Cano (White).
The ATJ, in the recent trip to Andorra to return the works to the Penitentiary Centre.
La Comella that, as the guest were present in the sample, follow the round of contacts, in this small country in the European Union, to search for scenarios outside of the prisons where they exhibit and project to the largest possible number public, the work of inmates seeking, in turn, make a dignified exit paid to them by donations, as a plus rather than stimulate interest, self-esteem and combating social exclusion and marginalization of the prisoner, reaching from the ATJ resources in coordination with the reinstatement policy of the Department of Corrections to return the prisoner in the best possible society.
Source: Templarios de Jumilla