World Suicide
Prevention Day activities
Grassroots
Suicide Prevention warmly invites you to attend key events to mark World
Suicide Prevention Day in Brighton & Hove this September.
Evening event
Our
exciting evening event will take place on World Suicide Prevention
Day itself, from 7 – 9.30 pm on Tuesday 10th September at BHASVIC Sixth Form College, 205 Dyke Road, Hove, BN3 6EG.
***We are planning to stream the event live through our website 7 – 9.30 pm on 10th September, so that people who can’t get to the event in person can still watch and feel part of it. Visit www.prevent-suicide.org.uk to watch!***
***We are planning to stream the event live through our website 7 – 9.30 pm on 10th September, so that people who can’t get to the event in person can still watch and feel part of it. Visit www.prevent-suicide.org.uk to watch!***
The
evening’s activities will include:
·
a performance from Right Here, a local project led by young people
·
a personal story from local artist Yvonne J Foster
of how a suicide prevention intervention touched her life
·
a minute’s silence to remember those we have loved
and lost to suicide
·
a screening of our new film ‘Something in the
Silence’
·
a speech from James Moncrieff – Deputy Principle of
BHASVIC Sixth Form College
·
Brighton & Hove’s Deputy Mayor
·
An update from Grassroots on the first year of our
Suicide Safer Brighton & Hove Project
The theme
for World Suicide Prevention this year is ‘Stigma: a major barrier to suicide
prevention’ (www.iasp.info/wspd/). Stigma can be fatal as it can prevent people in need from reaching out
and asking for help. We can collectively
reduce stigma through taking part in, and talking about, events such as this.
Please RSVP
by 30th August to chris@prevent-suicide.org.uk at the latest if you would like to attend this
event. We hope to see you there for what
will be an inspiring and fun evening.
Weekend and
mid-week events
On Saturday 7th & Sunday 8th
September, 10 am – 5 pm we are holding an event with information stands on
Brighton seafront. Please come and join
us, and tie a ribbon of hope or remembrance to the famous Kissing
Sculpture. We are also planning a
Zumbathon to raise money and celebrate life!
Our stand
will be taking pledge signatures, selling books, and giving out suicide
prevention resources to the public. We
have room for 2 or 3 local organisations to join us by also having a stand. Please get in contact if you would like to
join us: chris@prevent-suicide.org.uk
Monday 9th – Friday 13th
September we will be hosting a free, outdoor photographic exhibition in Jubilee
Square, outside Brighton Library. The
photographs will be beautiful portraits with a clear stigma reduction message.
We hope you
will join us at one or more of these events and look forward to connecting with
you.
Grassroots
Suicide Prevention gratefully acknowledges funding from Public Health which has
enabled us to organise these events.
Chris Brown, Director
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Will you take our 'Tell Me' pledge? Sign up to have open, honest and direct conversations about suicide http://bit.ly/TellMepledge
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