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4/26/2019 Combat to Canvas Exhibition & Reading @ The Art League Madison Annex
Time 1900-2100 Location: 808 North Fairfax St, Alexandria Virginia The Combat to Canvas exhibition and reading is the culminating event of a four-day art-making and writing workshop by Mission Belonging, Frontline Arts, and Warrior Writers at the USO Warrior and...
Community Writing Workshop 04/18/2019 with April Harris at Torpedo Factory Art Center
No creative writing experience required! Join Mission Belonging for our monthly community building creative writing workshop in partnership with the Torpedo Factory Art Center. Tickets are available here. April's workshop will be led by author April Harris in the...
The Community Writing Workshop Experience
The week of the workshop, my husband and I returned to Maryland from a trip to Florida. It was an exhausting excursion that got us home late Tuesday night. The long drive combined with an invasion of southeastern United States allergens left me tired enough to sleep...
Community Writing Workshop w MD Poet Laureate Grace Cavalieri 03/14/19 @ The Mansion at Strathmore
Our March Community Writing Workshop will be led by acclaimed Maryland Poet Laureate Grace Cavalieri. Cavalieri is the author of 20 books and poetry chapbooks, playwright of 26 plays produced on American stages, and founder of 2 small presses. Her work has...
Community Writing Workshop with Leslie Pietrzyk 02/21/19 @ Torpedo Factory Art Center
No creative writing experience required! Join Mission Belonging for our monthly community building creative writing workshop in partnership with the Torpedo Factory Art Center. February's workshop, "Scene-Building: Making Your World Real" will be led by author Leslie...
Previous Participants: Take the Survey
Thank you for the wonderful, overwhelming outpouring of support over the past few weeks. Since posting my announcement, I've received so many emails from people who participated in the hospital programs and colleagues who were impacted by them— offering encouragement,...
Spotlight: April Harris
It was a chilly day but when I saw my dear friend, April Harris, smiling at me from inside Building 62, home to many Wounded Warriors and their families, I felt warmth. I returned April's smile, told her how happy I was to see her and basked in the radiance of our...
True North: Entering a New Phase
In 2010 I answered an ad for a job at the Walter Reed MWR Arts & Crafts Center on the Forest Glen Annex. In the nine years since, I've moved through changes in location and contracts and leadership and employment and job title, expanding the community-centered...
Spotlight: Charles Stokes
In 2016, Staff Sergeant (SSG) Charles Stokes, after losing a custody battle and death of his grandfather, struggled to find purpose/motivation. He described his depression as so extreme that he slept 18 hours each day and still found it challenging to get up in the...
A Letter from the Board
As 2018 comes to a close, we'd like to take the opportunity to thank each and every person who has been a part of making this year full of art and writing and laughter and community. "True Community" as defined by M. Scott Peck, "emerges as the group chooses to...
I am an Artist.
I am an artist. I am an artist. I am an artist. I am an artist. It was so very challenging to form those words in my head…my fingers felt like they were dredging through quicksand just to make contact with my laptop’s keys…but there it is. I am an artist. I write...
October Writing Workshop 10/30/18 with NYT Best-Selling Memoirist Susanna Sonnenberg
reserve tickets on Eventbrite here No creative writing experience required! Join Mission Belonging for our monthly community building creative writing workshop in partnership with the Torpedo Factory Art Center. October's workshop will be led by Susanna Sonnenberg,...
