Hefner VA to host Creative Arts Festival

The Hefner VA Medical Center will host a March Creative Arts Festival for veterans.

The festival will be held March 13 in the social room of building No. 6 and will begin at 1:30 p.m. The festival will allow participants to qualify for competition at the regional level for the national festival.

The competition is open to the public.

The Creative Arts Festival at Salisbury is sponsored by the VA Medical Center and the American Legion Auxiliary Department of North Carolina.

The festival provides veterans the opportunity to receive recognition for their creative accomplishments. The competition is an annual event that provides veterans receiving treatment as an inpatient and/or outpatient at VA facilities the opportunity to participate in creative self-expression in art, creative writing, dance, drama and music as part of their therapy, and to gain recognition for their artistic accomplishments.

Categories are as follows: Art Division, Creative Writing, Dance Division, Drama Division and Music Division.

All divisions will be judged for a first, second and third place winner. First place winning pieces will advance on to the regional level where they will compete with entries submitted by veterans from other VA facilities around the country for advancement to the National Finals.

All applications for the competition are available through the Recreational Therapy office located in Building No. 6.

Deadlines for all categories must be turned in by 3 p.m. Thursday, March 4. No entries will be accepted on the day of competition.

For more information, please contact DeMarcus Steele at 704-638-9000 ext. 3041, Terri Gilbeau or Jennifer Everett ext. 3575 or Aleashia H. Brandon ext. 3460, Martha Corriher at 704-798-3625 or Joanne Holshouser at 704-279-2416, American Legion Auxiliary of N.C.