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For details and registration visit Art Spark Texas.

Saturday, November 2

• [9 AM] Opening address: An introduction to the Red Cross Services to the Armed Forces Resiliency Programs with a specific emphasis on Mind Body work.

• [10:30 AM] Voices From the Field: Salina Loriaux, MOS, LPC-1 and Jamie Peterson, Art therapist talk of their work with veterans, as veterans.

• [11:30 - 1 PM] Healthy Cooking Demonstration by Angela Shelf Medearis, aka The Kitchen Diva, a Certified Health Outreach Worker and a food/lifestyle and entertainment columnist.

• [1 - 3 PM] Demonstration stations allow conference goers to discover the benefits of AcraYoga, Martial Arts, Pilates, massage therapy, and more.

• [3 PM] Keynote Address: Ron Capps, Veteran Writers Project and O-Dark-Thirty.

• [9 AM - 5 PM] Information tables and health screenings by the following organization:

  • Austin Public Health *Veterans Restore * Austin Integral Care *American Red Cross * Central Health Ascension-Seton VA Navigator Information *DAV – Stand Down *Austin Honor Flight

  • Come experience Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy and Acudetox (National Acupuncture Detoxification Association).

Sunday, November 3

• [2:00- 4:00 pm] Expressive Arts and Resiliency experiential workshop, led by Kate Cleary, Certification in the Tamalpa Life/Art Process from the Tamalpa Institute

  Parking information for Austin Central Library: Click Here.

  For more information on the Veteran Health & Wellness conference, a project of Austin Veteran Arts Festival (AVAFest), contact celia@artsparktx.org or call 1-866-489-8412.

  Thank you to Reeve Foundation, Texas Commission on the Arts, and National Endowment on the Arts for helping to make this conference possible.

  For information about our Veteran program:Veteran Services

For more information: info@artsparktx.org