Show at Oasis Room at The Garde!

September 13 at 7:30 pm

About the Show:

Artreach, Inc. is thrilled to once again collaborate with Stand Up For Mental Health — and to bring this humorous and healing comedy to New London!

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The program will feature Stand Up for Mental Health’s founder, award-winning comic and counselor David Granirer, along with stand up sets featuring Artreach members. The comedy performances will be followed by a fireside chat moderated by Artreach’s executive director, Becca Atkins.

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This performance is the culmination of a 12-week workshop in which participants have worked with David to craft and perform stand-up comedy based on their mental health and addiction recovery journeys. This stand up is sure to inspire, uplift, and break down the stigma around mental illness and addiction.

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What’s so funny about mental health? As far as Stand Up for Mental Health and Artreach, Inc. are concerned– everything! Founded by award-winning counsellor and stand-up comic David Granirer, who himself lives with bipolar, SMH teaches stand-up comedy to people with mental health challenges as a way of building confidence and fighting public stigma. Granirer, in partnership with Artreach, Inc. has trained three first-time comedians to do stand-up comedy about their mental health journeys.

“Living with mental illness isn’t easy- but learning to turn my bad days into comedic moments is a beautiful way to connect with others and remind myself that there’s humor to be found even when I’m at my lowest,”

said Carin Jennie Estey, one of the comics who will be performing, and also an employee of Artreach, Inc.