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Brilliant Things Abound: How Art Can Open a Dialogue About Mental Health
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Professor Tony Vezner, head of the Theater Department at Concordia University, talks about this fall's show, Every Brilliant Thing. This one-man play gets the conversation about suicide started using humor, an intimate venue, and audience participation to tell the story from the point of view of a child of a suicide survivor as he catalogs everything that someone would want to live for. AFSP will have an information table plus a post-show discussion after every event to keep the conversation going and end the stigma of mental health issues.
If you are in crisis or know someone who is...please call: Suicide Lifeline at 1-800- 273-8255 or text the word “help” to 741-741 http://afsp.org/get-help
Timestamps:
- Making the discussion about mental health relatable through art
- How art contributes to your mental well-being
- Helping to start the conversation about mental health on campus
- The novel that brought mental health treatments to light in the Victorian era
- Respectfully and safely depicting a controversial story
- Tony and Shell share some of their "brilliant things"
Links:
Get your tickets to Every Brilliant Thing at https://www.simpletix.com/e/every-brilliant-thing-tickets-73036 Connect with Shell Pavlis: AFSP Volunteer, Advocate, Event Sponsor, Give Back Partner Realtor® Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties shellpavlis.afsp@gmail.com All Shell’s Social: https://linktr.ee/shellseeshell
17 episodi
Manage episode 301753065 series 2932418
Professor Tony Vezner, head of the Theater Department at Concordia University, talks about this fall's show, Every Brilliant Thing. This one-man play gets the conversation about suicide started using humor, an intimate venue, and audience participation to tell the story from the point of view of a child of a suicide survivor as he catalogs everything that someone would want to live for. AFSP will have an information table plus a post-show discussion after every event to keep the conversation going and end the stigma of mental health issues.
If you are in crisis or know someone who is...please call: Suicide Lifeline at 1-800- 273-8255 or text the word “help” to 741-741 http://afsp.org/get-help
Timestamps:
- Making the discussion about mental health relatable through art
- How art contributes to your mental well-being
- Helping to start the conversation about mental health on campus
- The novel that brought mental health treatments to light in the Victorian era
- Respectfully and safely depicting a controversial story
- Tony and Shell share some of their "brilliant things"
Links:
Get your tickets to Every Brilliant Thing at https://www.simpletix.com/e/every-brilliant-thing-tickets-73036 Connect with Shell Pavlis: AFSP Volunteer, Advocate, Event Sponsor, Give Back Partner Realtor® Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties shellpavlis.afsp@gmail.com All Shell’s Social: https://linktr.ee/shellseeshell
17 episodi
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