It’s been a great weekend of film screenings dedicated to looking at psychological crises in new ways.
Friday evening was a screening of CRAZYWISE at NYU Langone Hospital. Featuring a panel with Peri Zarella, Issa Ibrahim, Sascha DuBurl & co-director of CRAZYWISE Kevin Tomlinson.
Saturday afternoon was the NYC home-video launch of Healing Voices. The film followed with a panel Q & A featuring (among others) Oryx Cohen and Matt Estrada.
| ISPS-US and Hearing Voices NYC Present: Healing Voices Movie & post-screening discussion with the filmmakers and subjects. Register HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/healing-voices-recovering-community-nyc-tickets-33476211249 Sleep in on Saturday morning and then join us for a screening of Healing Voices at the Anthology Film Archive (32 2nd Ave) at 3:00 on May 13th, followed by a discussion with producers PJ Moynihan and Oryx Cohen and other special guests. Directions: Tickets are $8-$12. There are small number of discounted tickets available. Contact [email protected] by May 10 for more information.
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Hearing Voices NYC is happy to announce our collaboration with the #EmergingProud campaign! #EmergingProud is ultimately a campaign about providing hope; that breaking down does not mean we are broken; it means that we can be amidst a difficult journey to ‘breakthrough’.
The launch of International #EmergingProud day on Friday, May 12th, aims to expand the public perception of ‘normal’ all over the world. The event brings together collaboration from many organizations and 8 countries, seeing all voices join to bring evolution in mental health support, and will also include premiere screenings of CRAZYWISE. Together, we are creating a new global movement towards a dream we all share. For more information on the campaign go to: http://www.emergingproud.com/
What:
Screening of the film CRAZYWISE with panel featuring:
Sascha Altman DuBrul– NYC Icarus Project & Institute for the Development of Human Arts
Issa Ibrahim– Author of The Hospitals Always Wins
Peri Zarrella- Hearing Voices Network NYC
Kevin Tomlinson– Director & Executive Producer of CRAZYWISE
When:
May 12th 2017
Doors open at 6:30pm, Screening starts at 7pm
Where:
NYU Langone Hospital at First Ave and 30th Alumni Hall A
Sponsored by:
Institute for the Development of Human Arts
We wanted to send a huge thank you to everyone who donated money at our event “What Can We Learn From People Who Hear Voices?” and a special thanks to The International Society for Psychological & Social Approaches to Psychosis (ISPS-US) for sponsoring us!
The event, featuring Jacqui Dillion, Gail Hornstein, Noel Hunter, & Greg Shankland, raised over $2,500 dollars to support the development of Hearing Voices Groups in the United States. With the money, Hearing Voices NYC is going to set up a FREE training for people interested in becoming facilitators for Hearing Voices Groups (most likely in June). Stay tuned for more details…
This event was previously scheduled for 2/9 but cancelled due to snow. NEW DATE: March 2nd 2017, 6-8pm
What: The NADA Protocol is a special type of acupressure/acupuncture used for emotional distress that can be administered by anyone. It is a non-verbal approach to healing that includes non-invasive beads, seeds, or acupuncture needles in the ear. This training was inspired by Will Hall’s most recent Madness Radio Podcast on the subject.
When: March 2nd 2017 at 6-8pm
Where: Jefferson Market Library 425 6th Ave (at 10th Street)
What to expect: This is a hands-on workshop. Participants will experience for themselves the NADA protocol (i.e., acupressure with beads while sitting quietly). Participants will then be asked to share their experiences with the group and will practice placing the beads on others. There will be plenty of time for questions & answers. The instructor is Jo Ann Lenney, an expert trainer with NADA.
All welcome!
Evolutions of Us
Saturday, February 18 – Saturday, March 11, 2017
Reception: Saturday, February 18, 2:30-4:00pm
Being Neighborly presents “Evolutions of Us,” an exhibition of works by the self-taught artists,curated by School of Visual Arts MPS graduate art therapy students. The exhibition is on view at:
SVA West 132 W 21st Street, 5th Floor Gallery.
A group of self-taught artists organize a show about their evolution as individuals and as a collective. The process started twenty-two years ago, when many of these artists first began meeting, creating and exhibiting their art at the Hospital Audiences Inc. (HAI). In 2011 the studio and gallery moved from Manhattan to Long Island City Queens and the name changed to the Healing Arts Initiative (with the same acronym). Membership grew, both in numbers and communal bonds until May 2016 when HAI abruptly filed for bankruptcy. This tight-knit group, all who confront social marginalization and stigmatization, experienced the loss of their creative community as traumatic.
Determined to regain what they had lost, the artists united with their mentor Francis Palazzolo organize art projects around the goal of Being Neighborly. Together they engage with people of diverse backgrounds to form connections and learn from each other through art. In this latest incarnation selected artists collaborate with SVA graduate art therapy students to exhibit this journey. The artists’ adaptation, survival skills and tenacity to continue making art despite the challenges they face is a model social justice. Please join us to support their efforts.
Selected Artists: Aracelis Rivera, Lawrence Willoughby, Vincent Salas, Georgia Redd, Michael Johnson, Jenny Chan, Cynthia Timms, Ray Lopez, Laura Anne Walker, Girl Negron, El Kuumba & Linda Moses.
Graduate Student Curators: Yi-Chien Chang, Saeideh Goiji, RJ Huguenard, Laura Hetzel, Andrea Juliano, Rebecca Rodas, Gabby Simpson
Flyer: evolution of us copy
Leah Rokeach LCSW has been co-facilitating a bi-monthly Hearing Voices Group Jewish Orthodox men in the Boro Park section of Brooklyn for past two years. It is an open group and the co-facilitator is a voice hearer. The group meets on Mondays from 4pm to 5:30pm. In mid February, Leah will start a new Hearing Voices style group for Jewish Orthodox women, which will include not only voice hearers, but also women experiencing overwhelming fears, dissociation, seeing visions. It will meet bi-monthly, on alternate Mondays. The co-facilitator of this group will be a young woman who is an expert by experience.
Contact Leah for more information: [email protected]