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Together Apart: Led by Charlie DelMarcelle
Dec
3
7:00 PM19:00

Together Apart: Led by Charlie DelMarcelle

Tonight we will bring together families to share stories and space. We hope you will join us as we strive to bridge the gap created by our current period of isolation.

To reserve a spot in this conversation make a no-cost reservation HERE. You will receive an email within 24 hours of the event with a Zoom link and instructions to log into the event.

About the Speaker

Charlie DelMarcelle has been working as a professional actor, director, and theatre educator for over twenty five years. He currently resides in Philadelphia where he serves as an educational outreach specialist for the Lantern Theatre Company, Delaware Theatre Company, White Box Theatre, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and is an Associate Professor of Theatre at West Chester University.

He is also a respected performer, having appeared at: The Walnut Street Theatre, The Arden Theatre Co., Theater Horizon, Delaware Theatre Co., Inis Nua, The Lantern Theater Co., Act II Playhouse, Azuka Theatre Collective, Delaware Shakespeare Festival, EgoPo Classic Theatre, Shakespeare in Clark Park, Commonwealth Classic Theatre, White Box Theatre, and Amaryllis.

Charlie has held guest artist positions at Albright College, University of Pennsylvania, Millersville University, Moravian College, and Delta State University.

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Stigma Reduction with Ed Baker
Nov
24
7:00 PM19:00

Stigma Reduction with Ed Baker

People with addiction continue to be blamed for their disease. While some progress has been made in education and advocacy, the stigma of addiction continues to weigh heavily on those with substance abuse disorders.

To reserve a spot in this conversation make a no-cost reservation HERE. You will receive an email within 24 hours of the event with a Zoom link and instructions to log into the event.

About the Speaker

Ed Baker is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Licensed Alcohol/Drug Counselor with over 30 years of experience working with people with Substance Use Disorder, their families and communities. He is himself in recovery for 35 years.

He has presented at national Conferences, local Conferences, Community Programs, and is currently an Independent Addiction/Recovery Educational Consultant and Presenter. He host/produces the Addiction Recovery Channel (ARC), a public TV interview show featuring noted leaders in the Addictions field. An educator and student of addiction and recovery, Ed continuously strives to contribute to the eventual elimination of stigma.

He lives in Burlington, VT, where he plays the harmonica, mountain bikes the local trails, and is an award-winning grandpa.

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The Shape of Harm: Putting 150 Years of Overdose in Context, with Nancy Campbell and Troy Foundry Theatre
Nov
19
7:00 PM19:00

The Shape of Harm: Putting 150 Years of Overdose in Context, with Nancy Campbell and Troy Foundry Theatre

Join members of Troy Foundry Theatre and author Nancy Campbell who will look at how differently overdoses were experienced, reported, and researched across different historical periods. She’ll talk about some interesting cases across the years, late 19th, early 20th, mid-20th, 1960s-1970s, and through the present. Some of these stories are from her most recent  book, OD: Naloxone and the Politics of Overdose Prevention (MIT Press, 2020), which illustrate how overdose affected everyday lives over time, but which have gone unseen until now.

To reserve a spot in this conversation make a no-cost reservation HERE. You will receive an email within 24 hours of the event with a Zoom link and instructions to log into the event.

About the Speakers

Troy Foundry Theatre explores the social issues of today by collaborating with a variety of artists from multiple disciplines to produce and perform new work and reinterpreted classics through the means of new writing, devising and immersive performances.

Nancy D. Campbell is Professor and Department Head of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, where she has taught for over two decades. Her most recent book is OD: Naloxone and the Politics of Overdose Prevention (MIT Press, 2020). She was a FRIAS Senior Fellow and Marie Curie Fellow of the European Union at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) in 2017-2018. She is one of three editors of the Journal of the Social History of Alcohol and Drugs. Her books include Discovering Addiction: The Science and Politics of Substance Abuse Research (University of Michigan Press, 2007); Gendering Addiction: The Politics of Drug Treatment in a Neurochemical World (co-authored with Elizabeth Ettorre; Palgrave, 2011); The Narcotic Farm: The Rise and Fall of America’s First Prison for Drug Addicts (co-authored with JP Olsen and Luke Walden; Abrams, 2008); and Using Women: Gender, Drug Policy, and Social Justice (Routledge, 2000).

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Dr. Eric Avery and Adam DelMarcelle: Making Art from Trauma
Nov
12
7:00 PM19:00

Dr. Eric Avery and Adam DelMarcelle: Making Art from Trauma

These artist activists will share their work mining the depth of grief and trauma through artistic expression. Including a the making of paper from the clothing of overdose victims.

To reserve a spot in this conversation make a no-cost reservation HERE. You will receive an email within 24 hours of the event with a Zoom link and instructions to log into the event.

About the Speakers

Eric Avery is an artist/printmaker who became a physician during the Vietnam War in the 1970's. In 1974, he received his medical degree from The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas and then in 1978 completed his psychiatry training at the New York State Psychiatric Institute in New York City. For forty years he has worked at the intersection of visual art and medicine, leaving the practice of medicine several times to concentrate on his art career. His social content prints explore issues such as Human Rights Abuses, and Social Responses to Disease (specifically HIV and Emerging Infectious Diseases), DeathSexuality and the Body. His body of work is more thoroughly represented at www.docart.com

Adam DelMarcelle’s work focuses on design activism and the role of the graphic witness to expose and document societal injustice. His work for the What Heroin Sounds Like campaign garnered national attention, allowing DelMarcelle to travel widely and spread awareness of the heroin and opioid crisis ravaging our communities. The campaign is featured in Designing Activism; 31 Designers Fighting For A Better World, published by What Design Can Do in the Netherlands.

His work is in the permanent collections of The Cushing Whitney Medical Library at Yale University as well as the Library of Congress in Washington DC.

DelMarcelle holds a BFA from Pennsylvania College of Art and Design and an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. He is an adjunct professor at York College of Pennsylvania, Lebanon Valley College, Pennsylvania College of Art and Design and Kutztown University teaching courses in graphic design, printmaking and Visual Communication.

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Christopher Moraff in Conversation.
Oct
29
7:00 PM19:00

Christopher Moraff in Conversation.

Conversation with Christopher Moraff.

Log into this community conversation about the state of the addiction epidemic and Moraff’s work as a street reporter in Kensington.

To reserve a spot in this conversation make a no-cost reservation HERE. You will receive an email within 24 hours of the event with a Zoom link and instructions to log into the event.

About the Speaker

Christopher Moraff has spent over a decade reporting on the intersection of policing, criminal justice and civil liberties. His immersion reporting from Kensington, Philadelphia, has earned him a reputation as an expert on injection drug culture and the fentanyl crisis. His work has appeared in publications including the Daily Beast, the Washington Post and Al Jazeera America. He is co-host of the podcast Narcotica, and curator of the stock photo site StashHouse.org.

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