The RTNT crew is so happy to bring you our second episode. A little late, but better late than never, right?
This episode explores comedy and theatre as ways of exploring and understanding what it means to live with mental illness. (3mo4), (11m13) Our first two interviews are with Bart Campbell and Michael Arnold from Laughing Like Crazy, a peer support program that comes out of the Mood Disorders Association of Ontario, in partnership with STAR Learning at St. Michael's Hospital, here in Toronto. A few RTNT'ers took in their last performance in December 2016, so we can tell you that the jokes coming out of Laughing Like Crazy left us (ahem) laughing like crazy :) (18m00) Also in this show, Grant Ellis, a spoken word artist and Progress Place member, shares a piece about his life in Toronto entitled Justify. It's a beautiful piece and we're sure you will agree, what.a.voice. (19m05) Rounding out the show, we have an interview with Toronto writer, performer, and speaker Laurel Brady. We discussed the links between mental health and performance, and specifically her one woman show Surfacing. You can find out more about Laurel by visiting her website. Bookending our show, we have some jokes from Progress Place members. We hope they give you a giggle. Music in today's show is Instrumental #2 Revisited by Gillicuddy. Find more work by this artist here. Thank you to all of our guests and contributors, as well as to the whole Progress Place community for their ideas and support. Enjoy the episode!
6 Comments
Yael Gottesman
3/13/2017 12:17:33 pm
Great job everyone. This is really well done
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Amy Luo
3/14/2017 11:24:29 pm
Amazing job everyone...really enjoyed listening to the segments and interviews especially Laurel Brady's interview where she talked about how it can be hard sometimes to show weakness and receive support from other people.
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Nat Brettell
3/15/2017 11:51:43 am
I am very happy with the work that all you guys have done!! I admit that my favorite part of the first two podcasts have been the audio tour of progress place. It really gives a good picture of what our clubhouse is like!!
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Amy Luo
3/15/2017 07:40:03 pm
Me too0 i felt like I was at Progress Place
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Lois Brettell
5/25/2019 08:43:52 pm
I am Nat’s sister and have been out of touch with him since sept 2015. If anyone knows how I can reach him can someone please let me know or let him know I very much would like to be in contact with him. Thank you Lois Brettell
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Connie
12/4/2017 03:13:15 pm
Great podcast, really enjoyed listening to it. Keep it coming!
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