INTENSIVE CREATIVE EXPERIENCE

Flower City Arts Center has partnered with the Rochester (New York) Vet Center. Together they are conducting a 12 week photography and writing program for women combat veterans giving them an opportunity to express themselves both visually and in writing their unique experiences and to share their stories with the community.   The Rochester Vet Center will provide trauma informed military culture training, recruit participants and provide a therapist  at each session.  Women Veterans by enlisting in this program will come to know themselves better and build community support and awareness of their contributions as well as a better understanding of their own challenges. By engaging in an intensive experience, participants will have a safe place to explore topics of importance to them. Participants will be immersed in the entire process of photography – learning how to use a film camera, taking pictures at home and in the community and photographs and writings will then be shared with the community in an exhibition  of the work and  the production of a small book and blog.