Mental Illness Fellowship South Australia Events
Each year our national organisation, the Mental Illness Fellowship of Australia
(MIFA), organises Schizophrenia Awareness Week to highlight issues that affect
people living with a mental illness, their families and friends. Member organisations
of MIFA celebrate the week with a diverse range of awareness raising activities.
Locally we hope you will join us at an education session with our own ever popular Medical Advisor Dr Harry Hustig, or maybe we will see you or your work at our Art Exhibition or perhaps an afternoon tea with our international guest speaker.
Art Exhibition
The annual MIFSA Schizophrenia Awareness Week (SAW) Art Exhibition is shaping up for
2010. Please follow the links at www.mifsa.org to find entry details and forms. Alternatively, please phone MIFSA Wayville Activity Programs staff on 8378 4100 for more information.
The SAW Art Exhibition will be held at 11 Nile Street Port Adelaide from 18 - 22 May; 10am - 5pm.
The Launch will take place on 18 May; 6-9pm.
Entries of artwork from members of the mental health community are welcome and we are
looking forward to enjoying some exciting artwork again this year.
Education Forum
Doctor Harry Hustig, respected and International Speaker from Glenside Hospital is the Special Guest Speaker at the Education Forum to be held on 18 May, 2pm at Goodwood Community Centre, Banquet Hall, 32-34 Rosa Street Goodwood.
Are you trying to understand anxiety or withdrawing behaviours, depression or psychotic symptoms of a mental illness?
Learn about diagnosis and treatments to increase your knowledge and understanding.
This free Forum will provide a great opportunity for all people including family and friends to have many of those personal questions answered.
Please RSVP by 15 May 2010.
Public Forum - National Speaker Tour
MIFA's guest speaker for Schizophrenia Awareness Week 2010 will be a visiting US expert with more than 40 years’ experience in the field of families and mental health: Professor Joanne Nicholson. Prior to Professor Nicholson’s presentation there will be a theatrical reading of the play ‘Inside Out’, written by Mary Rachel Brown. ‘A pocket rocket of meaningful, gutsy, important theatre .... inspiring, illuminating, entertaining.’ (Stagenoise).
Professor Nicholson, is Professor of Psychiatry and Associate Director of the Centre for Mental Health Services Research at the University of Massachusetts medical school’s department of psychiatry. She will be discussing issues around people living with a mental illness and the role that family members play in recovery.
The Public forum will be held at the Adelaide Pavilion Veale Gardens, South Terrace Adelaide,
20 May; 2-5pm.
Please RSVP by Friday, 30 April 2010.
To RSVP your attendance at the Education Forum or Public Forum, please phone MIFSA
Wayville Reception, 8378 4100 by the dates shown above.
