We invite veterans to express their stories and emotions through the power of art and writing at the Veterans Creative Arts Program. This is a unique opportunity to showcase your talents, whether through visual arts or creative writing. Come and share your experiences, connect with fellow veterans, and celebrate the healing power of creativity.
Registration & Contact Information:
- Register here or call (910) 254-0907 (English) or (910) 341-0056 (Español) for more details
Veteran's Creative Arts Program (Creative Writing): Telling Our Stories with Kristen Dorsey
Creative Nonfiction is about telling true stories, and telling them well. Unlike journalism’s "just the facts" style, creative nonfiction shares the writer's truth with personal perspective and emotional depth. In this way, our experiences become intimate, thoughtful, and engaging stories about the world we share.
This class will use writing prompts, creative exercises, and the discussion and practice of craft principles to assist participants in developing written and verbal self-expression skills. Participants will write, share, and revise personal essays. A public reading of a polished work will be offered to those who wish to participate.
Creating in Community with Cammeron Batanides
In this studio-style class, we will create original works of art with the option to exhibit and/or sell our work during June, which is PTSD awareness month. Participants are invited to explore various mediums, share their work with other creatives in the classroom, and participate in optional class critiques.
About the instructor: Cammeron Batanides is an internationally known fine artist and children’s book author/illustrator whose works have been featured across the United States, in Jamaica and throughout Canada, at the 2013 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, and at the legendary Los Angeles Fine Arts Building. She was the first live painter for The Wailers, on the USS North Carolina Battleship, and at Wilmington’s historic Thalian Hall’s inaugural reggae show. Cammeron has recently returned from Washington, D.C, where over 40 of her original works were exhibited adjacent to the Smithsonian at Pepco Edison Place Gallery. Cammeron’s originals were simultaneously displayed in Leland, North Carolina at Leland Cultural Arts Center.
Both courses are offered simultaneously at the Davis Center at Maides Park on the following dates and times:
Date: Tuesdays (January 7, 2025 - May 27, 2025)
Time:12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: Davis Center at Maides Park
Address:1101 Manly Ave, Wilmington, NC