Mayor Dawn Zimmer, the City of Hoboken, Projected Images of Hudson County and Shrinkwrap Productions present a free Veterans Day Town Hall Meeting
Veterans Day Town Meeting" on Wednesday, November 11 at 7:30pm
Event: Veterans Day Town Meeting "includes screening of film Leave No Soldier"
What: Lecture
Start Time: Wednesday, November 11 at 7:30pm
End Time: Wednesday, November 11 at 9:30pm
Where: Hoboken High School Auditorium
Program Includes:
• a screening of “Leave No Soldier,” a film by Donna Bassin - an award-winning documentary about veterans helping one another deal with troubling war memories.
• a staged reading from a new play, “Flashback,” based on the 2006 book by Penny Coleman, which explores issues of post-traumatic stress injuries from the point of view of widows of Vietnam veterans who committed suicide; presented by actress Anne O'Sullivan.
• a panel discussion with the audience, focusing on ideas and programs for helping veterans and their families handle war-related problems.
The panel will include:
• filmmaker Donna Bassin
• author Penny Coleman
• Jim Fallon, Hoboken Vietnam veteran
• Jose Vasquez, New York Iraq veteran
• Roy Huelbig, Hoboken World War II veteran
• Jan Barry, coeditor of “Winning Hearts & Minds: War Poems by Vietnam Veterans”
and a founder of one of the first Vietnam veteran support groups.
Hoboken is accessible by PATH, NJ Transit trains and buses, NY Waterway ferries and the Hudson Bergen Lightrail.
Funding has been made possible in part by a Block Grant from the State/County Partnership Program for the Arts administered by the Hudson County Division of Cultural & Heritage Affairs, Tom DeGise, County Executive & the Board of Chosen Freeholders.
Special thanks to the Hoboken Board of Education and Hoboken American Legion Post 107for their support of this program.
For further information:
http://www.hobokennj.org/
