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The National Veterans Creative Arts Festival is one of four wide-ranging quality-of-life programs sponsored by the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the only one of the four that is open to all of our veterans in every medical center. The other three, Wheelchair Games, Golden Age Games, and Winter Sports Clinic, are necessarily limited by defined disability.
The Creative Arts Festival reaches out to every veteran and allows each one the opportunity of participating in the visual and performing arts. This participation provides recognition and reinforcement to veterans in their rehabilitation and recovery twenty-four hours of the day!
Seven days a week!
365 days a year!
The Department of Veterans Affairs provides support for the Festival, but because it serves thousands of patients nationwide, Festival personnel must raise additional money for this constantly growing, vital therapy program.
Think of this - hospitalized veterans are encouraged to sing . . .
and dance!
and act!
and paint!
and draw!
and create!
and imagine!
and dream!
and feel!
and rejoice!
All because of the Creative Arts Festival!
And they are given support and direction and positive encouragement
as they develop confidence through participation
and satisfaction through achievement.
Visit their website at:
www.creativeartsfestival.va.gov/
The walls of the medical center no longer confine.
The spirit is free . . .
The Veterans Fund proudly supports
The National Veterans Creative Arts Festival!
And so should every American! See the Festival website:
http://www1.va.gov/vetevent/caf/2006/default.cfm
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