We Are Still Here a collaboration between
Well Arts Institute and NAMI of Washington County will bring the voices of
mental illness to stage this weekend.
The production “lifts
the silence and tells the stories” of mental illness through theatrical performance.
What’s
Important is the Story, the culmination of Beautiful Minds—a pilot project supported
by Oregon Arts Commission and the Autzen Foundation—joins professional
directors, actors, and theatre technicians to people living with mental illness
or caring for a mentally ill family member in a workshopped theatre production
that explores the experience of mental illness.
Their stories of grief
and hope, fear and courage come alive on stage and bring awareness to the
public—a public in which one in four people are affected by a mental illness.
Well Arts collaborates
with the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Washington County
Center
The Well Arts
Institute is an eleven year old arts-in-healthcare non-profit that creates and
facilitates workshops in which professional theatre artists work with people
facing life-altering health challenges to create professional theatre
productions written by participants and performed by actors.
The sole SW Washington
performance will take place 2 p.m. Saturday, April 28 at the
Serendipity Playhouse, 500 Washington Street in Vancouver,
Wash. Tickets are $8 online at www.wellarts.org, or by calling 503-459-4500.
Tickets will be $10 at the door. For more information email to: info@wellarts.org
By Gregory E. Zschomler
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