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From New York City to Fort Worth, TX; To Akron and Cincinnati, OH; We Hope You All Had a Safe and Thoughtful Holiday! See latest DE-CRUIT newsletter for news of our activities in November.

There will first be introductory drop-in sessions Sundays November 17th and November 24th (10am-12pm). Then classes will be occurring every Sunday 1pm-4pm starting December 1st. Classes will take place at the Piven Theatre Workshop, Noyes Cultural Art Center, 927 Noyes St., Evanston, IL. Please contact Chicago Area Regional Director Alex Mallory at alex@decruit.org / 917-727-4787 for more information.

Two newsletters from DE-CRUIT commemorate this day, and tell what activities we have been doing in alignment with it. You can read them here: Veterans Day DE-CRUIT Newsletter From All of Us at DE-CRUIT to All of You on This Special Day

From Europe, to Canada, Montana, Colorado, and Fort Worth, DE-CRUIT sets up residency in Texas this fall. See the full newsletter here

August for DE-CRUIT: NYC and Fort Worth; Cry Havoc!, She-Wolf, and more… We’ve journeyed from Rome to London and back again. So many exciting happenings! We have a wonderful, limited-time-only writing workshop in NYC, taught by Veteran/DE-CRUITer Kaite Aymes. Kaite is a military Veteran, Actor/Writer/Instructor. She is a graduate of: National Conservatory Dramatic Arts, RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts), the Writers …

See here information on recent happenings, upcoming plans, and exciting news of Hollis Witherspoon’s improv classes for military veterans ongoing through September! Late June newsletter – “Where We’ve Been and Where We Are..” Early July newsletter – “Improv for Military Veterans Begins TONIGHT!!” This includes particulars about the improv classes for veterans: We are so happy and excited to share …

The article is entitled “The Therapeutic Effects of Imagination: Investigating Mimetic Induction and Dramatic Simulation in a Trauma Treatment for Military Veterans”, and was co-authored by Alisha Ali, Stephan Wolfert, Patricia Fahmy, Meghan Nayyar, and Amna Chaudhry. Click here to access it.

From NYC to see friend & colleague Tim J. Lord, to making new friends at the Gold Lab Symposium, to performing at a National Veterans Festival in Milwaukee… The Game’s Afoot! See Stephan and Dawn’s latest DE-CRUIT newsletter here

The article is entitled “In the Service of Science: Veteran-Led Research in the Investigation of a Theatre-Based Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Treatment”, and it is authored by Dr. Alisha Ali, Stephan Wolfert, and Dr. Bruce Homer. The publication can be accessed here.

Read up on the latest updates from Stephan and Dawn, as of the beginning of Spring. In addition to the information in the PDF of the newsletter linked to above, Stephan and Dawn also updated on their experiences in VanLife: VanLife/DE-CRUIT mobile It’s been a cold winter in New England; but we’ve been lucky! The van (and cabin heater) have …