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Incubating a

Good Idea

The Vet Art Project will be a part of the Incubator Series at the Chicago Cultural Center in February 2009. That means we'll have the whole month to build a supportive community, help veterans and their loved ones share their stories both orally and in writing in a small-group setting, and then area artists will work with the veterans to transform these stories into stagecraft, film, dance, music, and more. The project will culminate in a free public performance.


Project Sponsor: LIsa Rosenthal

lisa@lisarosenthal.com

 

Vet Art Project
Resource Documents

 

 



READING RESOURCES

Veteran’s Voices:

Calica, Lovella (Ed). Warrior Writers: Re-Making Sense. Published by Iraq Veterans Against the War. Printed by Barre, Vermont: L. Brown and Sons, 2008 (Available at www.ivaw.org.)

Fick, Nathaniel. One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2006

Fussell, Paul (Ed). The Norton Book of Modern War. New York: Norton & Co., 1990.

Grossman, Dave. On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society. Back Bay Books, 1996.

Kraft, Heidi Squier. Rule Number Two: Lessons I Learned in a Combat Hospital. New York: Little, Brown & Co., 2007.

Rieckhoff, Paul. Chasing Ghosts - Failures and Facades in Iraq: A Soldier’s Perspective. New York: NAL Caliber, 2006

 

Professional’s Voices:

Shay, Jonathan. Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming. New York: Scribner, 2002.

Shay, Jonathan. Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character. New York: Atheneum,1994.

Herman, Judith Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror. New York:Basic, 1992.

 

The Red Bridge in central Hanoi, Vietnam, Dec 2005