AGENCY TESTIMONY
Examples of DVS collaborations with arts organizations
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Commissioner Hendon provides several examples of DVS collaborations with arts organizations and initiatives to support veterans through creative expression.
- Collaboration with the Social Design Collective's Women Veterans Portrait Project
- Partnership with Theater of War Productions for dramatic readings and discussions
- Work with Decruit, a veteran-led acting company, teaching Shakespeare and monologue writing
- Efforts to establish a post-9/11 Veterans Memorial in Queens
- Collaboration with the Department of Cultural Affairs Percent For Art Program for the memorial
James Hendon
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Sponsored by the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, PAIR is a municipal residency program that embeds artists in city government to propose and implement creative solutions to pressing public challenges.
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Through the PAIR program and other philanthropic offerings, DVS has collaborated with artists in the following ways.
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DVS partnered partnered with the Social Design Collective's Women Veterans Portrait Project, which printed portraits of local women veterans on paper made from military uniforms, working with Theater of War Productions, an artistic company that uses leading actors to present dramatic readings of seminal plays followed by guided discussions about the plays, DVS co curated 65 Theater of War performances across the 5 boroughs.
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Productions were held in public libraries, parks, museums, correctional facilities, city hall, and other locations.
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Along with PEAR, our partnership with Theater of War was amplified by generous support from the Stavros Niakros Foundation.
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DVS collaborated with Decruit, a veteran led acting company, to recruit veterans to learn Shakespeare in verse, write monologue in said verse, which addresses personal trauma, and perform in front of an audience of family, friends, community members, and other veterans at the end of the program.
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DVS' collaboration with the group was made possible through funding from the National Endowment For the Arts and later from the Lori M.
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Tisch Illumination Fund.
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Additionally, DVS' leading efforts to establish a post 911 Veterans Memorial in Queens, honoring those who made the ultimate sacrifice during the global war on terror.
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The memorial would be built on the waterfront in the Whitestone neighborhood of Queens, the borough home to the largest number of post 911 service members who were killed in action, adjacent to Little Bay Park.
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DVS, in partnership with the Department of Cultural Affairs Percent For Art Program, is leading a public artist selection process to ensure that the memorial appropriately reflects the bravery and sacrifice of the fallen service members from this generation.
