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Songwriting Opportunity with The Lumineers
Because of high demand, seats in this workshop will be distributed by an opportunity drawing. Click here to enter your name. Spend your Saturday evening in a 90 minute interactive songwriting workshop with Wesley & Jer of The Lumineers! The Lumineers are...
We cannot create a new narrative without acknowledging the past.
Mission Belonging Family, There is a lot going on in our lives and in our country right now. All of the hard emotions of isolation, anger, insecurity, fear...the emotional roller coaster seems to be never-ending. For many of us this rollercoaster is not a new...
May Schedule of Events
New registration process for online workshops! Register for any workshop (except for May 1st, children's workshops on May 12th and 26th, and our monthly workshop with the Strathmore) by clicking here. Wait for your registration to be approved, then follow the...
Break & Bloom Storytelling Event
Break & Bloom is a one-hour storytelling event featuring stories from a veteran, an active-duty service member, and a military spouse. It will live stream on Mission Belonging's Facebook page on May 22nd, at 7pm. These storytellers spent several weeks in an online...
Community Writing Workshop with Rosebud Ben-Oni and Strathmore
No creative writing experience required! Join Mission Belonging for our monthly community building creative writing workshop in partnership with Strathmore. May’s workshop will be led by Rosebud Ben-Oni. Tickets can be found here. Doors at 6:30, workshop begins...
Arts and the Armed Forces Online Event
On Saturday May 16 from 7-8pm, in honor of Armed Forces Day, salute our service men and women with an evening line-up of comedy, music, storytelling, poetry, and art. This event is in partnership with USO of Metropolitan Washington - Baltimore, The Armed Services Arts...
We Are Not Done Yet – An HBO Documentary
Directed by Sareen Hairabedian and produced by Jeffrey Wright (Emmy winner for HBO’s Angels in America, two-time Emmy nominee for HBO’s Westworld) and David Holbrooke (HBO’s The Diplomat), We Are Not Done Yet profiles a group of veterans and active-duty service...
April Schedule of Events
New registration process for online workshops! Register by clicking on each workshop. Message us through our contact form or send us a message through our Instagram @missionbelonging for the password. Login using the emailed zoom link & enter the password when...
Community Writing Workshop at the Strathmore Mansion with Teri Ellen Cross Davis
This workshop will now be taking place online. Won’t You Celebrate With Me? Join Teri Ellen Cross Davis to discuss the work of acclaimed poets Lucille Clifton and Linda Pastan. We will dive into the dizzying world of writing poetry that centers on family, love, and...
The Poetic Record
We know that the COVID-19 crisis will create greater instances of moral injury and secondary trauma in healthcare workers, a population already burdened with compassion fatigue and burnout. We’d like to support healthcare workers to harness the power of narrative and...
Not Impossible-Hari Alluri’s 4/2 Online Workshop
We created a bank of found lines we love, collaborated to create an image bank and then wrote these poems that were like a giant venn diagram--overlapping here and there and here again. There were tears. There was a super-affirming chat in the sidebar. There were...
A note from Joe Merritt
It's been more than 2 weeks since the COVID19 virus began affecting all of us in ways we will not forget. I've been spending a lot of time thinking about where we will go from here. What's important to rebuild and what can we let go of once we get past this? It's not...
