Mental Illness Awareness Week
Yukon Mental Illness Awareness Week is this October 6th to 16th.
As part of National Mental Illness Awareness Week, Mental Health Services is hosting an exciting line up of events. They include stand up comedy, theatre, film and an art show.
The theme is Out of The Shadows, a journey of recovery through art.
Admission is FREE to all events and everyone is welcome.
The Soloist - Film Screening
Whitehorse - October 6, 2009
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Out of the Shadows - Art Show
Whitehorse - October 9th & 10th, 2009
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Dirty Laundary - Play
Whitehorse - October 9th & 10th, 2009
Dawson - October 13th, 2009
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Stand Up For Mental Health - Stand-up Comedy
Haines Juction - October 14th, 2009
Whitehorse - October 15th, 2009
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For more information on any of the events listed please call Mental Health Services at 867-667-8346 (1-800-661-0408 extention 8346 in the communities).
| The Soloist - Film Screening | |
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Whitehorse The Soloist is an award winning film which captures the true life story of Nathaniel Ayers, a former cello prodigy whose experience with schizophrenia landed him on the streets. Journalist Steve Lopez becomes friends with Ayers and supports Ayers with his plight with mental illness through the power of his music. |
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| Out of the Shadows - Art Show | |
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Whitehorse Out of the Shadows art show is a display of visual art created by clients of Mental Health Services and their families in the recovery process. |
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| Dirty Laundry - Play | |
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Whitehorse Dawson City Dirty Laundry is described as an engaging, poignant, and sometimes humorous tale of a woman’s intimate struggle with, and eventual triumph over a mental health issue affecting thousands of Canadians everyday. Marilyn is 30 years old (twice!) and living in Nanoose Bay on Vancouver Island. Drawing from stints as a daughter, sister, mother, spouse, lab tech, award winning Avon lady, and so much more - this certifiably-nutspeople-pleasing-but-it's-all-about-me woman is now an author and public speaker. In addition to Dirty Laundry, Marilyn has authored five books and has been providing keynotes and workshops since 2002. After a chaotic lifetime of trying to "get it right", Marilyn is now enjoying life with her husband, John, and their two darling puppies. |
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| Stand Up for Mental Health – Stand-up Comedy | |
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Haines Junction Whitehorse www.standupformentalhealth.com Led by David Granirer, a counselor and stand-up comic, and author of the The Happy Neurotic: How Fear and Angst Can Lead To Happiness and Success, Stand Up For Mental Health teaches stand up comedy to people with mental illness. Come laugh your head off at David and his comics as they look at the lighter side of taking meds, seeing counselors, getting diagnosed and surviving the mental health system. Melanie Rose, Paul Decarie, and Jonathan Granirer will be joining David in Whitehorse and Haines Junction. Stand Up For Mental Health aims to reduce public stigma around mental illness and spread a message of hope and empowerment. People with mental illness are always being told what they can’t do. In this show, they get to prove what they CAN do! Stand Up For Mental Health was featured in the VOICE Award winning documentary Cracking Up. David Granirer - 2:24 Johnathan Graniere - 8:24 Paul Decarie - 3:30 Melanie Rose - 4:22 |
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