Experience how creative arts can heal! The National Veterans Creative Arts Festival Stage Show is to be held Thursday, May 16, 2024, from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the Newman Center. During this FREE evening veterans perform musical, dance or dramatic selections. All have been treated in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) national health care system.
Nationwide, VA medical facilities use the creative arts as one form of rehabilitative treatment to help Veterans recover from and cope with physical and emotional disabilities.
Veterans participating in the National Veterans Creative Arts Festival won their VA health care system’s local competitions in art, creative writing, dance, drama and music, and were then invited to the national competition, here in Denver, to showcase their work.
The showcase is FREE, but limited in number so you should get them now.
In the 2023 competition, nearly 3,000 veterans submitted more than 6,000 entries, representing 125 VA medical facilities across the country.
Newman Center for the Performing Arts (June Swaner Gates Concert Hall) is at the University of Denver, 2344 East Iliff Ave., Denver.