TWO EXCITING EVENTS ON VEP’S MAY CALENDAR
Sunday May 6, 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., at the Eric Carle Museum: Double Victory: Negro League Baseball, the segregated Army and the struggle to integrate America Award winning art work and veterans’ oral histories are the vehicles we will use to explore the legacies of segregation and celebrate the achievements that set the stage for the civil rights victories of the 50s and 60s. Flyer Here – Eric Carle Museum: Double Victory
Saturday, May 12, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., at Deerfield Academy: Theater of War This acclaimed production, which has played to over 200 audiences internationally, will combine readings from Classical Greek theater by professionals with a panel of war veterans and military family members sharing their first-person insights about the realities of going to war, homecoming, and the human costs of war. FREE ADMISSION Flyer Here- Deerfield Academy: Theater of War
Partial listing of past events:
WRITERS PROJECT OVERVIEW
Local Fall Events 2011
Northampton Community Read Events with On The Same Page, Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried
Forbes Library www.forbeslibrary/OTSP
At UMASS Amherst: WAR VETERANS – A Commemoration through Art, Theater, Literature, and Film The VEP is proud to be participating in this exciting collaboration with the UMass Fine Arts Center, the Springfield Vet Center, the UMass Student Center Art Gallery, and UMass Veteran Services. We will be co-sponsoring a series of public events at UMass in November, 2011, that respond to the war experience through media such as visual art, theater, photography, and poetry. Many of the featured artists will be veterans.
