The Hyde Park Art Center’s Triennial exhibit SURVIVING THE LONG WARS: Unlikely Entanglements opens with a collaborative performance from Hussein Smko, Hipólito Arriaga III, and GOODW.Y.N.

Join Frontline Paper in an introductory participatory demonstration of the transformative process of creating paper from US military uniforms.

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

Joseph Lefthand will lead a movement and breathing workshop exploring the embodiment of resiliency and reconciliation.

Dunya Mikhail will lead a poetry workshop based on responses to works featured in the SURVIVING THE LONG WARS: Unlikely Entanglements exhibition.

Anthony Torres [US Army veteran], a writer, performer, and the Executive Director of Combat Hippies, will lead this group discussion.

Yvette Pino, founder of the Veteran Print Project, will lead an exploratory printmaking workshop.

Contribute to artist Sabba S. Elahi’s embroidery project to memorialize the names of civilians—women and children—who were killed by US drone attacks in Pakistan.

Join Joseph Lefthand (Cheyenne-Arapaho, Taos, and Zuni tribes) for a grounding at the start of the day.