Traveling Outside the Wire

The Kimmel Center Cultural Campus is proud to continue its ongoing partnership with Warrior Writers to present Traveling Outside the Wire, a free afternoon of intriguing poetry and performance. In honor of Veteran’s Day, Traveling Outside the Wire will feature veterans sharing their artistic renditions of traveling related to basic training, deployments, post-military service and more. Poems may include folks they met along the way, new foods and/or culture and what it was like to travel on someone else's terms. Veteran artists from near and far will collaborate with local musicians to bring their poetry and stories alive in a powerful way. This unique afternoon will help expand the understanding of the range of experiences veterans have and will showcase some incredible musicians, including former Kimmel Center 2017-18 Jazz Residency artist, Luke Carlos O’Reilly.