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Upcoming: Visual Art Workshop with Dr. Nisha Gupta
Therapeutic Art: Reclaiming Power through Symbolic Image-Making with Dr. Nisha Gupta We have a special workshop planned for Wednesday, May 25th at 7 pm ET! In this therapeutic art workshop, psychologist and artist Nisha Gupta will invite participants to create...
Turn Your Amazon Purchases Into Free Donations
UPDATED 3/8/2023 - Unfortunately, as of February 20th, 2023 Amazon Smile program has been discontinued. We appreciate the support from everyone who used the program over the last several years. To continue supporting Mission Belonging through book purchases, visit our...
Memorial Day Collaborative Painting Project
Throughout the month of May, Mission Belonging will dedicate the Wednesday night Visual Arts Program (on May 4th, 11th, and 18th) to creating a collaborative painting which will be unveiled at our Memorial Day Event. Slots to register for this project are filled, but...
Veteran Artist Spotlight: Lesley C. Mose
We are proud to share with you, the story & work of talented veteran artist, Lesley Mose! Lesley has always been an artisan at heart. Even during her military career, she always did everything she could to gather as many military occupational specialties as...
Virtual Event: The Wound Dresser by Walt Whitman
February 10th at 7 PM ET. Live readings from Walt Whitman’s poem “The Wound-Dresser,” as a catalyst for a powerful discussion about the challenges of healing. This special collaboration between Theater of War Productions, Mission Belonging, and the PBS series Poetry...
City Shaper: A Workshop with Jive Poetic
City Shaper: poems and prompts reflecting on the environments that built us. Register here Jive Poetic is a writer, organizer, and educator based in Brooklyn, New York. He received his BA in Media Studies from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and his MFA...
The Persona Poem with Brionne Janae
The Persona Poem: Healing, Witness, and Discovery with Brionne Janae Join us for this special workshop with one of our favorite poets, Brionne Janae. Offered in partnership with the Strathmore. REGISTER FOR THIS WORKSHOP Brionne Janae is a poet and teaching artist...
Livestream Event: More Than One Story: A Collaborative Performance by Military Women
Join us to celebrate art and the diversity of military women. Not every woman has the same experience in the military. Explore these differences in a program to debut a new video, “More Than One Story.” The Military Women’s Memorial, in partnership with Mission...
In Person Event: More Than One Story: A Collaborative Performance by Military Women
Join us to celebrate art and the diversity of military women. Not every woman has the same experience in the military. Explore these differences in a program to debut a new video, “More Than One Story.” The Military Women’s Memorial, in partnership with Mission...
Writing Workshop with Seema Yasmin in Partnership with Strathmore
Registration required! Join us on June 17th, 7:00-8:30pm EST for a writing workshop with EMMY Award Winning Journalist, Author, Poet, and Epidemiologist Dr. Seema Yasmin. Proceeds from this workshop will benefit Mission Belonging, supporting our programs for Veterans,...
Writing Workshop with Aracelis Girmay
Join us: Thursday, June 10 - 7:00 - 8:00pm Special Event Registration Here Experiments Toward Else: In this workshop we will consider the ways that reading or writing a poem might be an act of resuscitation. An awakening of one’s “sight,” mind and questions. We will...
Writing Workshop with Brandon Wint
Join us: Thursday, May 27 - 7:00 - 8:00pm The Poetry of Potent Questions with Brandon Wint Brandon Wint is an Ontario born poet and spoken word artist who uses poetry to attend to the joy and devastation and inequity associated with this era of human and ecological...
