Toronto Culture Days Poetry Reading

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Readings by Toronto poets

Tounie Keopraseuth

David Roche

Kathy Adachi

Honey Novick

Marty Smith

Kathleen Zinck

Joan Sutcliffe

Evelyn Marrast

Raymond Hielko

The Secret Handshake

Mission statement:

To provide a clubhouse setting for peer support counselling for people with schizophrenia, schizophreniform, and schizoaffective status, as well as through telephone, email, and texting ,and to provide performing space for members, allies, affiliates, and others, who are poets, writers, and visual artists, singers, musicians, and dancers. Our belief is that peer support sessions and experiences greatly reduce hospital time and episodes. Some of our other beliefs are people with schizophrenia have heightened imaginations which make them often already wonderful writers and visual artists, and through finding those parts within themselves, those who aren't already so, may become authentic artists and writers themselves, or through these experiences may become more aware of how to untangle the complexities they may encounter, and give enriching value to their lives, divested of stigma. To this end all wednesday and thursday afternoons ar allocated 4 peer support sessyuns,fridays 4 writing group, saturdays 4 art gallery hours, and th last sunday aftrnoon of every month xcept 4 december is th time given over to

the poetry reading series, poetry and prose readings ,and musical and other prformances. Monday afternoon once a month is vois yoga master class by Honey Novick. Within this context Honey Novick also curates directs and produces women vois a nite of empowering women in song.All these efforts make it mor possible for peopul with schizophrenia to feel and live with a strengthened self esteem,free uv internalizd stigma,n having mor tools of understanding such as cbt, to enjoy n more fully make their ways and employment in the world.

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The Secret Handshake

The Secret Handshake

mission statement

To provide a clubhouse setting for peer support counselling for people with schizophrenia, schizophreniform, and schizoaffective status, as well as through telephone, email, and texting ,and to provide performing space for members, allies, affiliates, and others, who are poets, writers, and visual artists, singers, musicians, and dancers. Our belief is that peer support sessions and experiences greatly reduce hospital time and episodes. Some of our other beliefs are people with schizophrenia have heightened imaginations which make them often already wonderful writers and visual artists, and through finding those parts within themselves, those who aren't already so, may become authentic artists and writers themselves, or through these experiences may become more aware of how to untangle the complexities they may encounter, and give enriching value to their lives, divested of stigma. To this end all wednesday and thursday afternoons ar allocated 4 peer support sessyuns,fridays 4 writing group, saturdays 4 art gallery hours, and th last sunday aftrnoon of every month xcept 4 december is th time given over to

the poetry reading series, poetry and prose readings ,and musical and other prformances. Monday afternoon once a month is vois yoga master class by Honey Novick. Within this context Honey Novick also curates directs and produces women vois a nite of empowering women in song.All these efforts make it mor possible for peopul with schizophrenia to feel and live with a strengthened self esteem,free uv internalizd stigma,n having mor tools of understanding such as cbt, to enjoy n more fully make their ways and employment in the world.