He's Crazy and He's My Brother

Third Thursday Open Rehearsal for the Mindful Exhibit (Exploring Mental Health through the Arts)

Sheila K Collins,PhD

Pittsburgh, PA

January 21, 2016 and February 18, 2016, Thursdays, 7:00pm-9:00pm

The next two Third Thursdays Open Rehearsals (1/21/16 and 2/18/16) ), Wing & a Prayer Pittsburgh Players will be rehearsing for a performing presentation at the Contemporary Craft Mindful Exhibit March 5, 2016 3-5PM. With inspiration from Sheila Collins' stories of difficulties in her own family (and what's helped all involved), the troupe will add their expressions of the challenges and unexpected gifts when relatives and friends experience mental illness. The rehearsal(s) will use song, story, music, and movement, as the group responds to artistic images from the current Society for Contemporary Craft art show, “Mindful,” whose goal is to break the stigma of mental illness in the Pittsburgh Community. [The image you see here is Artist, Michael Janis's, Echoes.]

Cost: Donations Requested

Registration/Information: Sheila Collins 817/706-4967 sheilacollins@yahoo.com OR Toni McClendon 412/708-8734 tonirob1015@live.com

Venue

The Wightman School

5604 Solway Street

Pittsburgh, PA 15217

www.interplaypittsburgh.com

Enter the front door, go to the third floor Music Room.

Leaders

Sheila K Collins,PhD

Sheila K. Collins is the director of InterPlay Pittsburgh and the Wing & A Prayer Pittsburgh Players, an InterPlay-based performance troupe she founded in 2006 to assist human service agencies and art organizations in accomplishing their noble purposes. A former professional dancer, Sheila has described herself as a “dancing social worker” for over 40 years, throughout her careers as a therapist, social work professor, and writer.

She is the author of Stillpoint: A Playbook for Caregivers to Find Ease, Time to Breathe, and Reclaim Joy, which since its second edition, co-authored by Christine Gautreaux, has become a popular weekly online class, and Warrior Mother: Fierce Love, Unbearable Loss and the Rituals That Heal.

She’s been known to travel the country enlisting InterPlayers to help her Perform her Books, demonstrating how InterPlay tools help us get through life’s ordinary and extraordinary, “tough challenges”

Her latest book, The Art of Grieving: How Art and Artmaking Help Us Grieve, and Live Our Best Lives explores how the arts of storytelling, dance, music, and visual arts help mourners navigate episodes of grief, process loss, and extract meaning and wisdom for their future lives.

sheilakcollins@gmail.com 817 706-4967 120 Chapel Harbor Dr Pittsburgh Pa 15238

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