ValleyCAST Presents 2024 Hope Day Celebration
Schedule
Wed May 01 2024 at 01:00 pm to 03:00 pm
Location
50 Douglas Rd, Whitinsville, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01588 | Whitinsville, MA
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Join ValleyCAST on Wednesday, May 1 from 1-3 pm at the Alternatives' Whitin Mill on the Dennis H. Rice Community Plaza for a Hope Day celebration featuring live music by The Blackstone Valley Quartet, poetry, speeches, a guided meditation, wellness offerings, art making, and a chance to admire our yellow tulip Hope Garden in full bloom.This Hope Day Celebration will bring us together to smash the stigma around mental health, and bring suicide prevention, mental health awareness, and resources for recovery to the community in anticipation of May Mental Health Awareness Month.
If it rains the celebration will move indoors to the Singh Performance Center at the same location.
In collaboration with Yellow Tulip Project, ValleyCAST board members and staff, along with community members from the Whitin Community Center, Blackstone Heritage Corridor, and NOWA Peer Recovery Support Center, planted our first Hope Garden of 500 tulips at the Whitin Mill in the fall of 2020. This inspired the planting of yellow tulip gardens at the Whitin Community Center, The Rockdale Youth Center, Douglas Primary School, the Whitinsville Common and as far away as the Town Common in Southbridge, MA.
The Yellow Tulip Project is a youth driven, non-profit that is fiercely dedicated to suicide prevention, mental health stigma reduction, community building, and helping people know that there is help and hope out there ... one tulip at a time.
This event is free! We encouraged you to bring your friends and family to join the celebration!
Some of the Community Participants at 2024 Hope Day Event Include:
Open Sky Community Services
The Blackstone Valley Quartet
Blackstone Heritage Corridor
Girls on the Run
Amanda Shea
Whitin Community Center
Rockdale Youth Center
NOWA Peer Recovery Support Center
Hope Day Schedule
1:00 pm Blackstone Valley Quartet – performance (1)
Gathering together, snacks, resource tables, art activities
1:20 pm Welcome:
Kelley Gamble, VP of Community Engagement, Open Sky
Cristi Collari, Director of ValleyCAST, Open Sky
1:25 pm Abhinav Ahlawat, Yellow Tulip Project Ambassador
1:35 pm Heather Elster, Executive Director, WCC
Moment of silence honoring those we have lost
Moment of silence honoring those struggling
1:40 pm Amanda Shea, Recovery Story, Poetry
2:00 pm Intermission:
Blackstone Valley Quartet – performance (2)
Visit Hope Garden, snacks, resource tables, art activities
2:20 pm Tyler Shaban & Johnny Guyette, Drumming Performance
2:30 pm Deborah Korch, Program Coordinator, NOWA
NOWA Introduction, Recovery Story
5-Minute Walking Meditation
2:40 pm Blackstone Valley Quartet – performance (3)
Gathering together, snacks, resource tables, art activities
3:00 pm Thank you for coming!
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Where is it happening?
50 Douglas Rd, Whitinsville, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01588Event Location & Nearby Stays:
