Wow, it's fall, and I feel alive. There's so much going on right now that it's hard to keep up. Here's a sampling of what's going on here in the Triangle that I'm involved in this fall, my second favorite time of year.
On sale now: Lucy's Cards. A unique fundraiser to support mental-health services for children and families in the Triangle. I share a facility here in Cary with the Lucy Daniels Center for Early Childhood, an award-winning therapuetic preschool that provides wonderful services to kids with emotional needs. The way the fundraiser works: You buy a Lucy's Card for $50. 100% of the $50 goes to programs that the Lucy Daniels Center offers. Then for one week, Nov. 3-10, 2006, you use your card to shop at over 200 stores in the Triangle (locally-owned stores, not chains) and you get a 20% discount on all the stuff you buy. So, if you spend $250 the week of Nov. 3-10, (think holiday shopping early, we all spend $250 during the holidays, right?) you recap your $50 and you've donated to a really important service for children. If you spend more than $250, that's pure savings to you. So, shop, save, and help kids. (But if you do buy a card, I encourage you to buy one from me...I'm running my own specials for those who sign up first)
Next week, Thursday, Oct. 12, 7:00, Chapel Hill Bible Church: Caramore Community's 2006 Annual Client Celebration, Featuring local author Lee Smith (There is no charge to attend this event!) Caramore, where my husband works, is a private, non-profit organization in Carrboro that provides comprehensive services for mentally ill adults. It's a highly successful community-based program whose model more people need to know about--especially in this day and age where there's lots of talk about mental health reform in NC. Lee Smith, a well-known local author, will speak first-hand about how Caramore helped her son.
Wednesday, Oct. 18-Friday, Oct. 20: Troika Music Festival, an event designed to promote and celebrate the independent music scene in the Durham, Chapel Hill, and Raleigh area. Here's a special shout-out to my friends in the band Vedere Rosso, who will be playing on Friday, Oct. 20, at 7:45 PM, at the MarVell Event Center.
Saturday, November 4, "Art as Healing & Healing as Art", 1:30-4:30, NC Bar Center in Cary, NC, $25: a lecture that my place of employment, the Lucy Daniels Foundation, is hosting. The Foundation is pleased to host two internationally known presenters for this inaugural lecture:Thomas Sayre, local artist & designer and Salman Akhtar, MD, psychiatrist & psychoanalyst, poet & writer. The artist and the psychoanalyst will combine the origins of art with the theories of potential space in the following talks:Wrestling with the Angel, Thomas Sayre, and Hearing Voices: Psychotic, Poetic, and Psychoanalytic, Salman Akhtar, MD.
(Both of these speakers are really, really, good- plus Thomas Sayre is one of Raleigh's own with artwork up a the the NCMA, RDU Aiport and Exploris. Plus he's in a rock band. Plus, there's a reception over at the Foundation afterwards. Y'all come out).
Then, of course, there's the Marathon, Half-Marathon on Nov. 12. at the Outer Banks. All I can say is wish me luck, lots and lots of luck.
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