Join us for an evening of live music, punk, and DJ sets celebrating art, resistance, and community.

Featuring Jules Vaquera of The Guillotinas, a 2026 Veteran Art Fellowship recipient whose music explores personal healing and social justice; DJ Sound Culture aka David Chavez of Future Rootz Records; and Do the Needful, a noisy Bollywood ensemble blending retro Indian pop with ghostly burlesque, post-punk, and blues.

Join us for Shifting Horizons exhibition tour, led by the curatorial team, with insights and perspectives from exhibiting artists. Explore the work, ideas, and stories shaping the exhibition.

We look forward to gathering with our community to experience the artists’ work and engage with the conversations it inspires.

In this creative writing workshop, participants will be encouraged to move throughout the Triennial exhibits at Hyde Park Art Center, writing to prompts that will help them draw a deeper connection to the artworks on display.

Open Platform is an opportunity for veterans, war-impacted artists, and community members to share and learn about the wide range of art practices and projects currently happening.

Dorothy I. Burge will lead an all-levels quilting workshop that begins with an introduction to the history and cultural significance of quilting within the Black community. Guests will be invited to collaborate on a community quilt about Black veterans.

Join Cog•nate Collective in activating their new installation ¡Animo! (Abre Caminos / Let Us Shift).

Lovella Calica leads an introductory community health workshop focused on Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE), a series of movement-based exercises designed to help the body release muscular tension and stress.

This interactive writing workshop centers BIPOC voices and invites participants to explore the personal and collective impact of war, militarism, resistance, identity, and freedom. Through provocative prompts, the words of BIPOC writers, and shared conversation, we’ll write into the spaces between what we’ve inherited, what we’ve experienced, what we resist, and what we imagine is possible.

Come with your voice. Come with your curiosity. Come with your journal and something to write with. 

Guests will get to experiment with different book binding techniques and make their own journals with handmade paper from military uniforms.

The Iraqi and American Reconciliation Project (IARP), in partnership with Resisting The Long War, invite you to Kleicha: A Taste of Return inspired by Yusser Salih's Intention of Return/Relatives of Estrangement نية العودة, an effort to turn the gharb (related to distantness, remoteness) into qorb (related to nearness).

A hands-on printmaking workshop with John Hitchcock. Registration required.

Lisa Mannion, aka Ukulady Lisa, is an Army combat veteran, singer-songwriter, Chicago musician, and  music teacher, passionate about veterans' mental health and the healing power of music.

All ukuleles are provided, and no experience is required. She travels across Chicago with 15 ukuleles making group lessons fun, welcoming, and full of music!

Drawing on Art, Harm, and Healing, a statement written by the Humans of Life Row collective, a group of men serving life sentences in Illinois. Workshop participants are invited to consider how veterans might develop a collective statement of their own, grounded in their experiences, values, and visions for healing and transformation.

An interactive session for makers and thinkers to collaborate, connect, and spark new ideas.