Fellowship Place is Presents "Hearing Voices, Speaking in Tongues"

Fellowship Place’s annual Dr. Albert J. Solnit Memorial Lecture Series, Fellowship Place is presents "Hearing Voices, Speaking in Tongues" - The Connecticut Premier of Michael Mack's One-Man Play about his mother's mental illness. The event will be held June 11, 2009, 7:00 pm at the Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium of Yale University, 53 Wall Street. Tickets are $35.00 each.

Following the performance Fellowship Place will host a Q & A session from the public of a panel which will include   William H. Sledge, MD, Interim Chair and George D. and Esther S. Gross Professor of Psychiatry, Yale Univ School of Medicine; Alice Forrester, PhD, Executive Director, Clifford Beers Child Guidance Clinic; Toni Dorfman, Director of Undergraduate Theatre Studies, Yale University and Michael Mack, Poet, Writer, Performer.

This event was planned with a goal of reducing the stigma associated with mental illness in the Greater New Haven community.  The play tells the story of the performer’s real life experiences growing up with a mother who suffers from schizophrenia.  He has performed (with outstanding reviews) all over the country at universities, hospitals, and mental health conferences. We also believe the above panel choices cover professionally and personally the whole family spectrum, from young child to adult, to real life family member experiences.

For more information regarding this event visit fellowshipplace.org or contact Melissa Holroyd at 203-401-4227 x111with questions regarding the event.