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Mike is a consumer/survivor and a prolific writer/composer who has performed throughout the country. His recordings are available on his web site. Listen to clips of music from his newest album “Waitin’ for a Train” as well as music from his other CD’s.
Wambui is a creative and powerful inspirational speaker and entertainer. Her performances focus on her recovery and domestic violence.
This is probably the oldest consumer arts projects in the country and home to the Second Step Players in Norwich, CT
Arts and Healing Network is an on-line resource celebrating the connection between art and healing. Contains numerous links to Arts Sites across the world. www.michaelmacklive.com/hearingvoices.html Michael Mack was a little boy when his mother suffered her first psychotic break. Michael has performed "Hearing Voices (Speaking in Tongues)" for audiences of all ages portraying his experiences through his mother’s illness. His performances have received wide acclaim.
Meghan is an extremely talented artist who is a consumer/survivor. To quote her “It is the Life Force in me that calls out to be expressed.“
Jerome believes that beauty is to be found everywhere and beautiful art should be available to everyone.
www.creativeartsconsortium.org The Creative Arts Consortium is a group of San Diego County consumer artists, writers and performers dedicated to recover through the arts.
The Awakenings Project is an award-winning coalition of consumer/survivor arts in Glen Elllyn, IL.
Zangmo Blue Thundercloud. Sally Clay writes about her journey through mental illness and how spirituality led her on a path to recovery.
www.mhabroward.org/9MusesArtCenter.html 9Muses Arts Center. A Drop-In Art Center in Fort Lauderdale, FL. using all art forms as a tool for recovery.
Art Awakenings celebrates the purposeful process of self discovery through creative experience for adults with mental illness.
The Icarus Project is creating a new culture and language that resonates with our actual experiences of madness and “mental illness” rather than trying to fit our lives into a conventional framework.
Drop-in Center in Tampa, Florida oriented toward the arts. Links to art exhibits, including their own at the Florida Mental Health Institute.
http://www.intervoiceonline.org/ (This site is submitted from a friend in Britain, Louise Pembroke) If you hear voices (aka auditory hallucinations); if you know someone who does; if you work with people who hear voices; if you want to know about more about this experience. Then this site is for you. Many voices can be unthreatening and even positive. “It’s wrong to turn this into a shameful problem that people either feel they have to deny or to take medication to suppress.”
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