LLED, along with the Peter Wall Institute presents:
Transitioning Home: Veterans Performing Self in CONTACT! Unload
This presentation shares research from an initiative where researchers in group counseling and theatre education collaborated with military veterans to produce the play Contact! Unload. Community members participated with returning veterans in a series of drama-based workshops that led to the production. The collective process was an expressive vehicle for military men to publicly reinterpret their struggles and experiences of transitioning from active service overseas to civilian life in ways that build resilience. Their stories are vividly brought to life in Contact! Unload, a theatre piece that features four veterans performing. The Veterans Transition Program (https://vtncanada.org/) is at the heart of this project, in that the goal of this work is about men (veterans) helping men to transition healthily to civilian life.
Note that there is some strong language in the piece.
Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Location: Digital Literacy Centre, Ponderosa Annex F, room 103
EARLY SHOWING
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Doors open at 3:15 pm
LATE SHOWING
7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Doors open at 7:15 pm
This free public event has limited seating. Please reserve your tickets early at: http://contactunload.eventbrite.ca
In collaboration with:
John Oliffe, School of Nursing
Marv Westwood, Counseling Psychology Program
George Belliveau, Theatre Education
