totally downnnnn. :D<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 12:10 PM, allison libertine <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:allibertine@gmail.com" target="_blank">allibertine@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<br>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?<div>
Let me know!</div><div>Love and Garlic,</div><div>Allison</div><div><br></div><div><p style="line-height:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;margin:0px">
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 <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.punksinrecovery.com/" style="color:rgb(59,89,152);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">www.punksinrecovery.com</a> 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</p>
<p style="line-height:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;margin:10px 0px 0px">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.</p>
<p style="line-height:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;margin:10px 0px 0px">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</p>
<p style="line-height:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;margin:10px 0px 0px">I am both a punk rock and mental health activist</p>
<p style="line-height:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;margin:10px 0px 0px">I have made a remarkable turnaround in my life and I am living a successful and healthy life.</p>
<p style="line-height:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;margin:10px 0px 0px">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.</p>
<p style="line-height:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;margin:10px 0px 0px">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.</p>
<p style="line-height:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;margin:10px 0px 0px">I would greatly appreciate it if you could get back to me at your convenience to hopefully further discuss and potentially plan this event.</p>
<p style="line-height:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;margin:10px 0px 0px">Thank you very much.</p><p style="line-height:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;margin:10px 0px 0px">
Sincerely,<br>Craig Lewis</p><p style="line-height:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:13px;font-family:'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;margin:10px 0px 0px"><a href="tel:857-719-4840" value="+18577194840" target="_blank">857-719-4840</a><br>
<a href="mailto:punx.in.recovery@gmail.com" target="_blank">punx.in.recovery@gmail.com</a><br>Punk Rock Mental Illness & Revovery<br><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.punksinrecovery.com/" style="color:rgb(59,89,152);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">www.punksinrecovery.com</a></p>
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