Communicate, Connect, Care: Suicide Prevention Day 10/9

Communicate, Connect, Care: World Suicide Prevention Day, September 10

Depot Artspace draws attention to Suicide Prevention Day, Saturday, September 10 with some simple initiatives, designed to align with the theme this year, “Communicate, Connect, Care”.

The Depot commemorates this day as we prepare to publish “The Roaring Silence” a book comprised of poetry, essays, paintings, photographs, drawings, interviews, maps and comics, from over 70 artists and some professionals whose lives have been touched by suicide.

Media producer Amelia Harris, who has been coordinating 'The Roaring Silence’, says the submissions are ‘a mix of both the light and dark shades of suicide’, and together form a thought-provoking, practical, often moving, publication. A prototype of the publication is on display at the Depot Artspace, 28 Clarence St, Devonport, where an exhibition, Escape Artists, is currently running to raise funds for the publication.

The artwork, below, by Grant Alexander, is part of the exhibition and represents the number of suicides in Aotearoa New Zealand over the past year. Symbolically, the plate is chipped.

Grant Alexander, ‘Damn Statistics’ 2016

“Communicate, Connect, Care” - simple initiatives for Suicide Prevention Day 2016

#1.Share this Mental Health Resource Map made by Depot volunteer Grace Shelley-Poeschl:

#2. Share this beautiful video from Movember Foundation Australia: "Suicide notes talk too late"

#3.Tell your story, as part of the ‘People’s Review of the Mental Health System’: https://actionstation.typeform.com/to/lXJ1sb

#4.Say hello to someone you would usually never usually say hello to

#5.Find out what is happening at your local Community Centre, maybe there’s a class for you?

#6.On September 10th light a candle and place it in your window to show support for suicide prevention

Photo: Lynn Lawton

For more information about the publication ‘The Roaring Silence’:
http://www.depotpress.co.nz/

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