[FlyingBrickAnnouncements] punk and mental health talk

[allison libertine]

As long as there's n o objections, I'd like to give the okay to them by
Monday.
Allison

On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Ellen Crawford <crawfordee at vcu.edu> wrote:

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> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 12:10 PM, allison libertine <allibertine at gmail.com
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>> Hey all! My friend Michelle passed this on as something we could host a
>> the brick. i'd like put this on with the help of someone else (i might have
>> to work that night but could possibly get my shift covered, but if I can't
>> I'd still like to bottom line and help set up before work.) I can get in
>> contact with the speaker. I just want to run it by ya'll. Any objections?
>> Does it interfere with another event?
>> Let me know!
>> Love and Garlic,
>> Allison
>>
>> Hello Michelle - I hope all is well. A while back you expressed interest
>> in helping organize my talk in Richmond. I would like to tour in June and I
>> would like to speak in Richmond on Friday 6/7. I have included my pitch
>> below. Please let me know what you think. You can check out some
>> testimonials about me speaking at my website www.punksinrecovery.com the
>> website is still being developed however it can give you an idea of what I
>> am up to. Thank you very much and take good care - Craig
>>
>> My name is Craig Lewis and I have lived in the Boston area my entire life
>> and I am now 39 years old. I was very ill for a very long time with various
>> symptoms of a mental health condition. My life was terrible and all who
>> knew me knew that I was very unhealthy as well as living a very
>> dysfunctional life.
>>
>> I have been involved in the punk scene since I was a teenager and the
>> punk community has witnessed me out of control of many occasions in the
>> past. I truly lived a life of suffering and misery. In the past several
>> years I have been in what we call in the mental health world, 'recovery'. I
>> have learned excellent coping skills and helpful symptom management methods
>> that have been highly effective and instrumental in me rejoining society as
>> a mentally healthy adult. I now work as a mental health peer counselor for
>> a large mental health agency in Boston as well as the Department of Mental
>> Health
>>
>> I am both a punk rock and mental health activist
>>
>> I have made a remarkable turnaround in my life and I am living a
>> successful and healthy life.
>>
>> I have prepared and written an approximately 50 minute long presentation
>> titled "Punk Rock, Mental Illness and Recovery" and I have presented at the
>> Democracy Center in Cambridge, at Heaven Street Records in Brooklyn, New
>> York, Libertalia in Providence, Rhode Island, The Big Idea bookstore in
>> Pittsburgh, The Wooden Shoe collective in Philadelphia, a collective house
>> in Washington DC and Collective-A-Go-Go in Worcester, MA, and received a
>> wonderfully warm and generous response on each occasion.
>>
>> I believe that there are many people in our community who could benefit
>> from hearing me speak about my life experience and I want to help my peers
>> and those in the community at large, gain a healthier perspective on the
>> real probability of recovery from mental illness and the life improvements
>> that people can experience who suffer from life impacting symptoms, both
>> major and minor.
>>
>> I would greatly appreciate it if you could get back to me at your
>> convenience to hopefully further discuss and potentially plan this event.
>>
>> Thank you very much.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Craig Lewis
>>
>> 857-719-4840
>> punx.in.recovery at gmail.com
>> Punk Rock Mental Illness & Revovery
>> www.punksinrecovery.com
>>
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