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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,...
Veteran & Service Member Art Exhibition & Reading 10/26/18 1900
Co-presentation with Frontline Arts + USO of Metropolitan Washington-Baltimore + Warrior Writers October 24th at 7 pm at the Torpedo Factory Art Center, 105 North Union Street, Alexandria, VA The Frontline Paper/Warrior Writers exhibition and reading is the...
September Community Writing Workshop 9/27/18
No creative writing experience required! Join Mission Belonging for our monthly community building creative writing workshop in partnership with the Torpedo Factory Art Center. September's workshop will be led by the National Endowment for the Arts Lit Team: Amy...
Writing Workshops at The Torpedo Factory Art Center
August 30, 2018 September 27, 2018 October 30, 2018 November 11, 2018
Veteran & Service Member Reading & Art Exhibit 8/24/18
The Frontline Paper/Warrior Writers exhibition and reading is the culminating event of a four-day art-making and writing workshop at the USO Warrior and Family Center in Bethesda. During the workshop, Service Members and Veterans make paper out of used military...
