This is your chance to view and buy prints and originals from veteran artists. View the work of former USMC Combat Artist and illustrator Elize McKelvey,  the vibrant abstracts of former Navy Seabee Angelo T. Robinson, and the stunning mixed media work of Newburgh-based Navy veteran Auguster Williams. See samples from Frontline Arts, and watch demonstrations of their unique community-oriented Veterans’ papermaking program which teaches Veterans of all service eras and branches the transformational practice of making handmade paper from military uniforms.

Last Out is a play written by and starring former Green Beret Scott Mann – it is perhaps the most 360-degree view of war and its after-effects that has ever been put on stage. But it has now been filmed and will be released on Amazon Prime, so to celebrate, the Savage Wonder Festival is proud to present this incredibly special screening with the cast in attendance and a Q&A to follow.

Until you have seen a former USMC veteran of Fallujah, Iraq choreograph dance, you’ve never seen dance. The award-winning Exit 12 Dance company was founded by choreographer Roman Baca to educate audiences about the reality of war by creating works of high cultural significance examining the lasting effects of violence and conflict on communities, families, and individuals. At the Savage Wonder Festival, Exit 12 will collaborate with singer Jesus Daniel Hernandez, an Iraq veteran who is also a protege of Placido Domingo – as well as former USMC machine-gunner Mason Rodrigue, former USMC MP Dex, and former USMC Iraq veteran Benjamin Fortier. It is a performance of Marine combat veterans that you will not soon forget.

If you like poetry or spoken word performances, you’re going to love this. And if you don’t like them, you may love it even more. You’ve never seen spoken word performances like this. Poets, writers, and actors face off with each other, reading selections that tackle love, fear, lust, loss, combat, peace, internal angst and external enemies in complementary or contradictory ways. Punctuated by the outlaw country singing of Afghanistan veteran and green-on-blue survivor Doc Oliver, this is a blend of poetry and music that will have you laughing, crying, and thinking.