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June Schedule of Events
It's June! This month: Wednesday 05 June Open Writing USO Warrior & Family Center Ft Belvoir 1700-1800* Wednesday 12 June Improv Comedy Workshop with Amelia Bane, USO Warrior & Family Center Ft Belvoir 1200-1300* Wednesday 12 June Intro to Music Workshop USO...
Mission Belonging at Today at Apple StoryMakers Festival
Join us on May 22 at 1730 at Apple Carnegie Library in Washington DC for a collaborative storytelling workshop about origins and community. Celebrate the StoryMakers Festival and explore the power of narrative with Seema Reza, Joe Merritt, and Wytold, the co-founders...
Community Writing Workshop with Seema Reza at Strathmore Mansion 05/09/2019
No creative writing experience required! Join Mission Belonging for our monthly community building creative writing workshop in partnership with the Strathmore Mansion. Tickets are available here. Our May Community Writing Workshop will be led by writer Seema Reza....
We need your help to build this movement.
Tell us why you support Mission Belonging Since leaving government funding, we've run more than 70 Mission Belonging shops and events at military hospitals and in community spaces this year funded not by the DoD, but by the American People. We could not have done it...
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...
