United Against Silence 2025

Join Mission Belonging for United Against Silence, a Community Showcase. An evening of poetry & performances by the Mission Belonging Community, hosted by Seema Reza. Light refreshments will be served.

This event is free and open to all (ages 16+). Donations are accepted and will go towards offsetting travel costs for facilitators and Veteran participants attending A Day of Belonging.

Featured performers include:

• Amelia Bane
• Kevin Basl
• George Goetzke
• Joan Green
• Courtney LeBlanc
• Belena Marquez
• Martha Pedersen
• Monica Pernia
• Ashley Price
• Catherine Schmid
• Alleria Stanley
• Laura Van Prooyen
• Ben Weakley
• Kayla Williams
• Willie Young
  

Seema Reza is the author of A Constellation of Half-Lives & When the World Breaks Open. Her writing has appeared in print and on-line in McSweeney’s, The Washington Post, The Feminist Wire, Bellevue Literary Review, The Offing, Full Grown People, and The Nervous Breakdown among others, and has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She has taught poetry in classrooms, jails, hospitals, and universities, and has performed across the country at universities, theaters, festivals, bookstores, conferences, & one fine mattress shop.

Mission Belonging (MB) is a charitable organization that builds healthy and connected communities where veterans and civilians share creative expression, mutual understanding, and support through workshops led by professional artists. Seema Reza is the chair of MB and facilitates a multi-hospital arts program that encourages use of the arts as a tool for narration, self-care, and socialization for those struggling with emotional and physical injuries. Mission Belonging Website

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