THE ARTS MAKE AMERICA GREAT

                                                                         Jason Moon founder of Warrior Songs Help us sponsor a veteran to the December Creative Healing Arts Retreat through the purchase of our Veterans Arts Empowerment tee shirt @ https://theartsmakeamericagreat.ecwid.com My name is Jason Moon and I am a combat veteran from Iraq 03-04.  I struggled with PTSD after returning home and attempted suicide in 2008.  As part of my recovery I began to write songs about my experience.  It helped me and turned out helping other veterans.  In 2010 I formed the nonprofit Warrior Songs which uses the creative arts to help veterans heal.  I travel the country educating civilians and empowering veterans.  My CD “Trying to Find My Way Home” has been distributed ...

                                                 Carissa DiPietro with her service dog Wounds of a Soldier by Carissa DiPietro The wounds of a soldier run deep to the soul The scars that they bare our stories untold. The darkest moments civilians don't see For they do not know the depths that we grieve. One moment so proud we're all standing tall The next in a corner broken so small. So what do we do? How do we breathe? How do we move on? How can we be free? Step number one so simple yet true. Listen to my story it's right here for you. About three years ago I came to the conclusion that I was barely alive.  I had breath in my lungs and a beat in my heart, but no will to do anything.  I would get up in the morning, drop the kids off at school and head back to bed.  I would get up again pick them up from school and head b...

                                                     the arts help heal from PTSD                                    Creative Arts Healing Retreat for Veterans  22 a day. At Warrior Songs, we are ever conscious of the number of veterans who take their own life each day due to the unseen burdens of war. Warrior Songs mission is to heal veterans with PTSD through music and the creative arts. Join us;wear our shirt with pride. Help us send one veteran to the retreat by purchasing our Veterans Arts Empowerment tee shirt,we need to sell 100 tee shirts to pay for 1 veteran to attend for the 4 day retreat. Go to https://theartsmakeamericagreat.ecwid.com The creative arts can play an integral part in helping veterans cope with their PTSD. Healing from ...

T akia “Judah” Parham is a United States Army Combat Veteran, theatre artist, published poet, public speaker and community arts educator. Her work has been featured in Duende Literary Journal’s ​Incarcerated Writers Feature​, and ​“Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors, Vol. 5”​ Anthology. Judah’s role of The Scarecrow in a musical production of The Wiz  through Rehabilitation Through the Arts, staged at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, was highlighted in The Huffington Post, and shown at the 2017 United Nations Symposium on Poverty and Criminal Justice. Her story is featured in the forthcoming documentaries The Waiting, produced by former CNN reporter Murat Bilgincan through Columbia University, as well as the Twenty-Twenty: Twenty Years of Art, a film about Rehabilitation Through the Arts’ prison programming. As a public speaker Judah has lectured on the trans-formative power of arts in community throughout many New York institutions such as The New School University, ...

                                                                                        photos by Mike Hawley                                                                                                                                                  The Arts Of War by Mike Hawley             Art and War are entwined in a dark embrace....

           The VETERANS ARTS EMPOWERMENT PROJECT                                         creativity, communication, healing The ARTS empower us, express our freedoms, our values, our diversity, peace and our humanity. The ARTS are good for mind and body. The ARTS are good for all of us. This project will share the stories and art of veterans who have fought to protect the very democratic freedoms and values that the arts are all about-freedom of expression, equality, our humanity and peace. You will be able to read the first story on Friday 6/9 on our blog: www.theartsmakeamericagreat.com. Subscribe to the blog for updates, all stories, articles and special offers and to share the important stories of the power and impact of the arts. I look forward to an ongoing dialog.  Net proceeds from the sale of products...

Through Our Eyes, In Our Voices : the stories of the impact and power of the arts from around America. Stories of how the arts have had an impact on individuals, communities and how they can effect social change.                                                                                                                                    ...