STAND-UP COMEDY FOR OUR WELL-BEING

Posted April 30, 2014, at Crazywise by Phil Borges, post by Crazywise co-director, Kevin Tomlinson

One of the most audacious and exciting forms of treatment for our health is laughter. David Granirer of Vancouver B.C. who lives with depression, is a counselor, stand up comic, keynote speaker on mental health and author (The Happy Neurotic, How Fear and Angst Can Lead to Happiness and Success). David founded “Stand Up for Mental Health“, an 8 week stand-up comedy program to people with mental illness as a way of building self-esteem and fighting public stigma. 

Stand Up for Health

Posted at ted.com,  June 2011, Joshua walters

Just Crazy Enough

 

http://www.thejoshuawalters.com/

Joshua Walters is a comedian, poet, educator and performer. He incorporates elements of spoken word and beatbox into his shows in a mash-up of comedy, intimate reflection and unpredictable antics. In the last two years, Walters has performed at theaters and universities throughout North America, Europe and the Middle East.

MADNESS AND MINDFULNESS: 4 FILMS

Thursday, October 24 – 8 PM at the ECHO PARK FILM CENTER  1200 N Alvarado St. (@ Sunset Blvd.) Los Angeles, CA. 90026 |      (213) 484 – 8846 | info@echoparkfilmcenter.org
The recent films of filmmaker/activist Ken Paul Rosenthal are provocative and beautiful works of conscious cinema that re-envision the way we think, speak and feel about mental distress and wellness in today’s chaotic world. These transformative films weave personal and political narratives through natural and urban landscapes, home movies, and archival social hygiene films. Mad Dance: A Mental Health Film Trilogy, consisting of For Shadows (2013, 26 minutes), a contemplative, multi-layered memoir that unravels the tangled roots of self-harm while coming to terms with one’s shadow; In Light In! (2013, 12 minutes) a haunting, visual essay about the awkward and angry junctures where our culture struggles to manage its emotional distress; and Crooked Beauty (2002, 30 minutes), the much-lauded poetic documentary on artist/activist Jacks McNamara and the foundation of the Icarus Project. Program also includes Rosenthal’s I My Bike (2002, 5 minutes), a cine-poetic work traces the conflict between urban space and the body.

Ken Paul Rosenthal in person! www.maddancementalhealthfilmtrilogy.com