Annual Veteran Arts Showcase at the FDR Presidential Library/Wallace Center

This celebration of veterans and the arts illustrates how arts heal, express emotions, and open doors to restorative communication.

This year’s Showcase will feature a gallery of painting, sculpture and photography by veteran artists and their families, a performance by the ‘Warwick Valley Wire Choir Orchestra’, a youth string orchestra led by Elissa Maynard, a writing workshop by ‘Warrior Writers’, danceable rock and roll by veteran musician Larry Neumann’s band, ‘Jerry The Bulldog’, a talk by Jane Strong about ‘The Equus Effect’, where interaction with horses helps veterans navigate the journey home.

Saturday Novemer 23rd from 6:30pm - 8pm A powerful documentary, ‘Why Can’t We Serve’ about disabled veterans and the ongoing crisis of veteran suicide, followed by a Q & A with blind Air Force vet Marty Klein, who wrote and directed the film.

For a more detailed schedule of events please check www.veteranartsshowcase.org

• Sunday, Jan 24^th, 2021
  Beacon Farmers Market - 9:00 am
• Saturday, Jan 30^th, 2021
  Hyde Park Winter Fest - 1:00 am
• Sunday, Jan 31^st, 2021
  Beacon Farmers Market - 9:00 am
• Sunday, Feb 7^th, 2021
  Beacon Farmers Market - 9:00 am
• Sunday, Feb 14^th, 2021
  Beacon Farmers Market - 9:00 am

• Saturday, Feb 13^th, 2021
  Queen City 15 Fine Art Gallery Presents Virtual Meet the Matis - 3:00 pm
• Saturday, Jan 30^th, 2021
  VIRTUAL | Clermont State Historic Site "The American Girls of Clermont" - 2:00 pm
• Saturday, Jan 30^th, 2021
  Hyde Park Winter Fest - 1:00 am
• Saturday, Jan 30^th, 2021
  Live Stream | The CENTER for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck presents "Hindsight & Hope" - 8:00 pm
• Saturday, Feb 6^th, 2021
  Live Stream | The CENTER for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck presents "Hindsight & Hope" - 8:00 pm