Learning how to partner with organizations from different sectors will ensure the success and longevity of your efforts to serve the military and veteran communities in your region through the arts.  The impact of your efforts will create positive change within your community and unite residents across the military and civilian divide.  Part Three of the "Arts Deployed" guide will give you suggestions for finding connections in your community and assist you in gaining funding for sustainability, at the local, state, and national levels...the practical

Programs exist now at the national, state, and local levels and we are here to highlight the ways you can help connect military service members and veterans, their families, and caregivers with the arts.  Explore the opportunities in your region by joining at the national, state, or local levels.  Or we propose that you can start your own grassroots creative arts programming with your own arts and crafts talents!  Explore the many levels of involvement that exist as we serve those that serve.

Americans for the Arts and the American Legion Auxiliary have joined forces to create a three part guide for starting a dialogue in your community to engage military service members, veterans, their families and caregivers through the arts to facilitate healing and well-being.  In the first webinar, we invite you to learn the many ways the arts can be "deployed" in the community to serve the needs of local military and veteran populations by examples of existing programs at the local, state, and national levels.  We will introduce the partnering agencies and how they are

CRAFT IN AMERICA

Please join us for a screening of Craft in America's newest episode

SERVICE: Documenting craft and the military and the power of the handmade to inspire, motivate and heal

Q&A to follow

www.craftinamerica.org

SERVICE premieres nationwide on PBS November 2, 2014
WETA airs SERVICE on November 7, 2014 at 10:00pm
(please check local listings)

Join us for a special screening of PBS Craft in America: Service, a Peabody Award-winning series, which continues to explore America’s creative spirit through the language and traditions of the handmade. The newest episode, "Service", part of the PBS veterans initiative Stories of Service*, is the story of craft and the military.

En Garde Arts presents BASETRACK LIVE, a multidisciplinary work that includes theater, music, news media, journalism, and technology.  While embedded with the First Battalion, Eighth Marines in Southern Afghanistan, a group of photojournalists led by Teru Kuwayama started the online project that became the authentic dialogue of the performance.  Connecting Battalion members with their families and others around the world, the online project became a platform for documenting the range of perspectives and the emotional tolls of deployment and beyond.

En Garde Arts presents Basetrack Live, a multidisciplinary work that includes theater, music, news media, journalism, and technology to draw on the power of individual stories to examine the collective experience of those who have served in America’s longest war.  Adapted from the wildly popular Facebook page and website of photographs and videos taken in Afghanistan by embedded journalist Teru Kuwayama, Basetrack Live is a multidisciplinary work at the intersection of theatre, music, new media, journalism and technology.

Presented by En Garde Arts, BASETRACK LIVE is a multidisciplinary work That includes theater, music, news media, journalism, and technology.  While embedded with the First Battalion, Eighth Marines in Southern Afghanistan, a group of photojournalists led by Teru Kuwayama started the online project that became the authentic dialogue of the performance.  Connecting Battalion members with their families and others around the world, the online project became a platform for documenting the range of perspectives and the emotional tolls of deployment and beyond.

En Garde Arts presents BASETRACK LIVE, a multidisciplinary work including theater, music, news media, journalism, and technology.  While embedded with the First Battalion, Eighth Marines in Southern Afghanistan, a group of photojournalists led by Teru Kuwayama started the online project that became the authentic dialogue of the performance.  Connecting Battalion members with their families and others around the world, the online project became a platform for documenting the range of perspectives and the emotional tolls of deployment and beyond.

BASETRACK LIVE is a multidisciplinary work including theater, music, news media, journalism, and technology.  While embedded with the First Battalion, Eighth Marines in Southern Afghanistan, a group of photojournalists led by Teru Kuwayama started the online project that became the authentic dialogue of the performance.  Connecting Battalion members with their families and others around the world, the online project became a platform for documenting the range of perspectives and the emotional tolls of deployment and beyond.