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VSA Arts of Michigan is offering some workshops for visual artists. Scholarships are available for artists with disabilities. Contact 313-832-3303 for information on scholarships.
Gallery Insider Talk for visual artists will be a panel discussion with Art Gallery owners and curators. You will learn about the differences and similarities of galleries, how they approach the selection process, what they are looking for in submissions, and the basics of determining pricing. $10 includes lunch or hors d'oeuvres. Petoskey - June 13, 2008, 10 am to 2 pm at Crooked Tree, 461 E. Mitchell, Petoskey MI 49770.
Artists as Entrepreneurs: Marketing (for actors, dancers, musicians, visual artists, writers). Learn tools and techniques for marketing yourself and your art. $30 includes lunch. Visual artists bring 3 samples of their work, digital photos provided. Friday, June 27, 8:30 - 4:30 pm at Dennos Museum Center at Northwestern Michigan College, 1701 E Front Street, Traverse City MI 49686.
VSA Arts of Michigan Artist Career Forum Flyer
It's never too late to join in the art classes with Tom McClellan. Learn a dynamic process for expressing your feelings and ideas through the arts. Try your hand at using acrylic paints and pastel chalks. A great way to get your thoughts out of the way and your emotions out and expressed, rather than stuffed or suppressed inside. Develop new habits to help you live a less stressful life. Thomas McClellan is an experienced process painting instructor with a master of arts degree in Counseling Psychology and a certificate in Holistic Health. You do not need to be receiving services from Northern Lakes CMH in order to attend.
Cadillac: Every other Tuesday, 2:30 to 4:30 on June 3, June 17, July 1, July 15
Grayling: Every other Thursday, 10:00 to Noon on June 5, June 19, July 3, July 17, July 31
Houghton Lake: Every other Thursday, 2:00 to 4:00 on June 5, June 19, July 3, July 17, July 31
On 3/20/08 we completed an in-depth look at our progress in transforming our local public mental health system since last fall. We marked a number of items off as COMPLETED! and pushed back dates on some others. Stepping back and evaluating the concrete things that have happened inspires us to push on because we know that all these changes are really helping real people.
Here is the latest Blueprint Update 3-20-08, a quarterly summary of accomplishments 3-20-08, and the new timeline of next items to tackle.
When you want to see updates on Northern Lakes CMH’s recovery transformation process, take a look in the new "Category" called Recovery Transformation Updates. There is a subcategory there as well, called Blueprint Updates. We will collect all our progress reports here!
Categories are a very handy tool to finding things in the Virtual Recovery Center. Take a moment to see the Categories — scroll down under More Information, past Recent Comments, past Recent Posts… and there they are!
You'll see we have already added categories for Learning Communities and Recovery Council where you'll find meeting agendas and minutes if you are unable to attend. Other Categories help you find quotes and personal stories to inspire you, and recovery classes we will be starting.
Over time as more information is added to this Virtual Recovery Center, you will find Categories a handy way to find what you need. You can also try the "Search NLCMH" box at the top of the page.
About 80 people from Northern Lakes’ six counties attended the 4th Annual Walk A Mile In My Shoes Rally at the State Capitol on May 14, 2008. There were 1,800 people there, and everyone was cheerful and enjoyed the day, even though it was pouring down rain.
The purpose of the rally was to raise awareness for mental health and developmental disabilities issues, including insurance parity, poverty, public transportation, affordable housing, funding for services and much more. Lawmakers mingled with people before the rally, and consumers had the opportunity to discuss these important issues with their legislators.
For Northern Lakes, we were able to have six representatives for our six counties read statements to the crowd through a microphone at the top of the capitol steps. Each county representative was allowed to have an assistant to help carry their county flag.
Our representatives were Susan for Leelanau, Ashley for Grand Traverse, Frank for Wexford, Jeannine for Missaukee, Edmund for Roscommon, and Catherine for Crawford. They each did a fantastic job of representing consumers in their counties. At the end of each person's statement, the crowd cheered, “Walk A Mile In My Shoes!
The April agenda included time for people attending to look at a big table full of recovery books and movies. Everyone brainstormed how best to be able to share these materials with people across 6 counties. The groups really like the idea of setting up a library system of some sort, so a person may check out materials to borrow and use at home.
The groups also like the idea of “peer centers” in Northern Lakes offices, where consumers may go for assistance from a peer in learning about recovery.
Many people are also interested in getting a little help from a peer on learning about their diagnosis on the Internet. While most communities have free Internet access through their public libraries, some consumers expressed that they would like to take a look at how computers and the Internet work with a peer first.
Northern Lakes has applied for a recovery block grant through the Michigan Department of Community Health to help implement some of these ideas that the Learning Communities and Recovery Council have identified. We will hear in September if the grant is funded!
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