One More Day: Modern Dance & Mental Health Awareness

One discovers the light in the darkness, that is what darkness is for; but everything in our lives depends on how we bear the light. It is necessary, while in darkness, to know that there is a light somewhere, to know that in oneself, waiting to be found, there is a light. This is why one must say Yes to life and embrace it whenever it is found — and it is found in terrible places; nevertheless, there it is. --James Baldwin

Goddard Riverside Community Arts Program's Season 2022-2023 Artist-in-Residence Alison Cook Beatty Dance Company presents One More Day: an evening of Modern Dance and Mental Health Awareness in partnership with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and Goddard Riverside’s TOP Clubhouse.

Join us as we hold space for community healing and honor our community members touched by the loss of a loved one to suicide, for an uplifting evening of hope featuring an original program of award-winning original contemporary dance. The company is joined by speakers Monica Rahman of TOP Clubhouse, a warm and caring space where “community is therapy” for people living with serious mental illness working to achieve wellness, lead dignified lives and realize their dreams, and Trinidadian-American wellness advocate Shaquila Gooden aka. Qualah speaking on holding on to life during challenging times.

Please give what you can, as all proceeds from this program will jointly support the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention's efforts to save lives by providing hope and mental health resources to those in need, and the Community Arts Program's mission to enrich and better our community through access to the arts.

Why support the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention?

AFSP funds groundbreaking suicide research, laying the foundation for the most important findings in the field. Through research, we can discover new ways to save lives. Most of the world’s leading suicide prevention researchers have been supported by AFSP at some point in their career, and these studies have made major contributions in preventing suicide.

Most recently AFSP played a lead role in establishing 9-8-8 as a three-digit number for people in crisis. The Interactive Screening Program is used by mental health services at hundreds of schools, workplaces and other organizations, giving people a safe and anonymous way to reach out for support they would not have sought otherwise. Suicide prevention education programs change attitudes, culture, and behavior across all 50 states with science-informed education about suicide, and how we can all help prevent it.

Photography by Monica Rahman