Join us on March 2 at 7 pm for a collaborative performance at the Torpedo Factory Arts Center by veterans, Service members, and Grammy-nominated hiphop artist, Christylez Bacon, and six-string electric cellist, Wytold. The event is the culminating performance of a Music & Writing workshop offered at the USO Warrior and Family Center. In that workshop, local Service Members will collaborate with internationally touring poet Mahogany L. Browne as well as Christylez Bacon and Wytold to compose original songs.
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Seema Reza is a poet and essayist and the author of two books: A Constellation of Half-Lives and When the World Breaks Open. She holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Writing and Community Building from Goddard College. In 2010 Seema began working with service members, veterans, and their families at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and has since developed a unique multi-hospital arts program that encourages the use of the arts as a tool for narration, self-care and socialization. In 2015, the USO of Metropolitan Washington-Baltimore awarded Seema the Col John Gioia Patriot Award for her work with service members in military hospitals. Seema is a 2019 George W. Bush Institute Stand-To Veteran Leadership Scholar.