To provide opportunities for Soldiers and Family members and other authorized MWR patrons to participate in Garrison Community Recreation Programs and Special Events that promote skill development, participation in the fine arts, performing arts and participation in general recreation pursuits.  These opportunities will include possible recognition of talents and achievements at the Army level.  Such events may also offer an inherent entertainment value to the community.  The focus will be on providing venues for personal growth, increased renewal and resiliency through recreation, and the strengthening of the sense of community on our Army Garrisons.

These events will challenge Community Recreation staff to expand program offering and leverage these opportunities by conducting introductory programs, preliminary events and competitions leading up to Festival Events.  As an alternative, Festival Events can be used as a springboard to kick off future programs and to stimulate and increase participation in Garrisons through Army level General Recreation, Entertainment and Skill Development activities.  These events provide excellent opportunities for leisure education for both staff and community.  They also provide opportunities to develop new skills, discover new interests, stimulate new ideas, develop lifelong recreation pursuits and skills, and to demonstrate to leaders the positive impacts of recreation by showcasing the diversity of constructive use of leisure time.  

Entry in the Festival should require recreation staff to develop new skills, sharpen their existing skills, and foster efforts to forge partnerships across recreation, MWR, and throughout their communities.  Emphasis will be on the development of new programs, expanding programs, and expanding opportunities for community involvement.  These opportunities to build and demonstrate staff professionalism foster a team approach by encouraging staff to reach out to meet our customer needs at multiple levels.  This is part of the tenets of the Recreation Delivery System (RDS).  

To provide incentives (stipends and awards) for Garrison participation in the Army Festival of the Arts & Recreation Program Events.  This will encourage participation through recognition for both our community and the MWR staff.

FMWRC Talent Coordinator will serve as the Executive Producer and conduct overall management and coordination efforts.  This will include serving as the conduit for information between Garrison POC’s, other IMCOM Region staff, Family Morale, Welfare, and Recreation command (FMWRC) staff.  These responsibilities will also include ensuring an appropriate panel of judges is selected for events at each participating Garrison, providing judges’ itineraries, coordinating dates of Garrison events, arranging for awards, and completing any after action reports.