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Join us Tuesday, May 5th at 7:00 p.m. as we begin a new film series presented by NAMI Athens in observance of Mental Health Awareness Month!

Admission is FREE – Tickets are required

The Frame of Mind Series, seeks to showcase stories that serve as bridges to real conversations, fostering a space for empathy and connection, a space where we, as a community, can lean into vulnerability and face difficult conversations together.

So for the month of May, we invite you to embrace empathy, get together, and step into a new Frame of Mind!

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The emotions are back!

Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust all return in the follow-up to the hit 2015 animated film from Pixar. Young Riley is now a teen who’s reached some big new emotional milestones – she’s now a high school freshman, treading the road of adolescence, and heading to a three-day hockey camp where she’ll be thrust into competition with other young ladies – all of which undoubtedly pose challenges to her emotional well-being. As a result, Joy and her cohorts have created a new section in Riley’s adolescent mind, the “Sense of Self”, as well as a mechanism meant to relay negative thoughts and memories to the back recesses of Riley’s subconscious. However, along with physical maturity comes a higher level of emotional complexity. Joining Joy and the others are 4 new emotions that will complicate Riley’s stability – Envy, Embarrassment, Ennui, and Anxiety – and raise the stakes of Joy’s efforts to keep Riley on an even (and positive) keel as Riley tries to cope with all the new emotionally-charged experiences of young-adulthood.

About the speaker

Caitlin Kraus is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor with training supervision designation and Licensed Professional Music Therapist in the state of Ohio. She received her Master of Education in Clinical Mental Health and Rehabilitation Counseling as well as her Master of Music in Music Therapy from Ohio University. At OU CPS, she provides individual and group counseling as well as crisis intervention services. She also serves as liaison to the Patton College of Education, co-facilitates Bobcats Who Care trainings, and is a member of the Training committee and Arts for Prescription committee. She is President-Elect for the Southeast Ohio Counseling Association (SEOCA), a regional chapter of the Ohio Counseling Association.

Before joining CPS, Caitlin provided individual and group counseling services to adult clients in community mental health and co-occurring mental health/substance abuse settings. She has also served as a music therapy professor at Ohio University and has provided individual and group music therapy services to adults and adolescents in community mental health, inpatient psychiatric, forensic, substance abuse rehabilitation, and domestic violence shelter settings in Athens and Columbus, OH, as well as Austin, TX. Her therapeutic style is rooted in a humanistic approach but is largely integrative—including the use of cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, narrative therapy, existential therapy, and feminist therapy. Areas of interest include college student and community mental health and well-being, trauma-informed/focused care, multicultural issues, anxiety, depression, grief, and suicide prevention.

When not working as a counselor and music therapist, Caitlin enjoys writing and performing her own folk/rock music as well as playing old-time Appalachian tunes with musicians in the Athens, OH community. She also enjoys drawing, making collages, reading, hiking, and spending time with her family, friends, and dogs.

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96 MIN

Join us Tuesday, May 12th at 7:00 p.m. as our Frame of Mind film series continues with an award-winning film blending animation and live-action!

Admission is FREE – Tickets are required

The Frame of Mind Series seeks to showcase stories that serve as bridges to real conversations, fostering a space for empathy and connection, a space where we, as a community, can lean into vulnerability and face difficult conversations together.

So for the month of May, we invite you to embrace empathy, get together, and step into a new Frame of Mind!

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When divorced documentary filmmaker Dean discovers marcel the Shell, a one-inch-tall talking seashell, he’s struck by the creature’s inspiring approach to life and begins making short films about Marcel. The first film becomes an internet sensation on YouTube and Marcel is thrust into the spotlight of pop culture gaining widespread fame. The results of that fame and the death of Marcel’s grandmother, however, begin to threaten the shell’s once-happy daily life — will Marcel’s new celebrity status actually be his undoing..?

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Julie Wiles is an accomplished filmmaker and educator with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture from Ohio State University and a Master of Fine Arts in Film from Ohio University. She has extensive experience in creative development, production, and post-production for television and film across the United States. Julie has collaborated with renowned companies such as Leftfield Pictures, ITV America, Tupelo Honey, and McGee Media on a variety of series, including Brainstormers, Alone, American Restoration, Breaking Borders (featuring journalist Mariana Van Zeller and chef Michael Voltaggio), First In Human: The Trials of Building 10 (hosted by Jim Parsons), and a personal archival project for Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook.

Her documentary work is dedicated to de-stigmatizing mental illness through personal storytelling and challenging the pervasive misrepresentation of mental health issues and treatments in film and media. Her first feature documentary, WE ARE MARY, earned second place for Best Feature Documentary at the Bushwick Film Festival and was featured at the Columbus International Film Festival in 2017. Currently, she is in post-production on her second feature documentary.

In addition to her filmmaking, Julie has taught courses in Film Production, Editing and Post-Production, History of Film, and Film Theory at Florida Southern College, Columbus College of Art and Design, and Hocking College, where she served as the Program Manager of the Film & Video Production Program.

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Join us Tuesday, May 19th at 7:00 p.m. as our Frame of Mind series continues with a poignant documentary about the late-great chef, writer, and television host Anthony Bourdain!

Admission is FREE – Tickets are required

This event will include some brief opening remarks by Jane Riley and Lori Brown of the Athens County LOSS Team

The Frame of Mind Series seeks to showcase stories that serve as bridges to real conversations, fostering a space for empathy and connection, a space where we, as a community, can lean into vulnerability and face difficult conversations together.

So for the month of May, we invite you to embrace empathy, get together, and step into a new Frame of Mind!

About the film

Blending archival footage and interviews with friends, family, and colleagues, Roadrunner: A Film about Anthony Bourdain seeks to tell the story about one of America’s biggest pop cultural icons. From his humble beginnings in the sweat-filled kitchens of New York, to his first forays into becoming a writer, to his massive success as the host of food/travel shows like No Reservations and Parts Unknown, and, finally, to his shocking death by suicide, this film attempts to both paint a fitting portrait of a one-of-a-kind workaholic and explain why he chose to end his life during the height of his success. Brimming with charisma, uncompromising and opinionated, fearless and infinitely curious: Everyone who knew Anthony Bourdain would surely say the same thing — there will never be another like him.

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Jane Riley has been a dedicated member of the Athens County LOSS Team for the past 7 years. She brings over 20 years of experience as a Social Worker in the fields of co-occurring substance use and mental health services, offering both professional knowledge and empathy to those she serves. Jane experienced the loss of a loved one to suicide in 2011 which has motivated her to support others navigating similar grief. As a member of the team, she provides comfort and hope to individuals and families during some of their most difficult moments. Out side of LOSS, Jane enjoys friends/family, reading, thrifting, and taking car of all six of her cats!

Lori Brown has been a volunteer with the Athens County LOSS team since its beginning. She is committed to offering a calm and compassionate presence to loved ones in the immediate aftermath of a suicide death. Her background is in social work and she has been working in the Athens community since 1996 by supporting individuals through difficult moments. Outside of LOSS, Lori enjoys spending time with family and friends, reading, photography, and crocheting!

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Join us Tuesday, May 26th at 7:00 p.m. as our Frame of Mind series concludes with a genre-bending film by French auteur Michel Gondry and surrealist writer Charlie Kaufman!

Admission is FREE – Tickets are required

This event will include a pre-show talk by Dr. China Billotte Verhoff of the OHIO School of Communication

The Frame of Mind Series seeks to showcase stories that serve as bridges to real conversations, fostering a space for empathy and connection, a space where we, as a community, can lean into vulnerability and face difficult conversations together.

So for the month of May, we invite you to embrace empathy, get together, and step into a new Frame of Mind!

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With an ensemble cast that includes Jim Carey, Kate Winslet, Mark Ruffalo, and Kirsten Dunst, this mind-bending romance incorporates elements of sci-fi and the surreal to tell the story of Joel Barish (Carey) and Clementine Kruczynski (Winslet) who, in the wake of a falling out, both decide to undergo a brain procedure whereby their memories get erased by a sketchy company that promises the result of post-procedure happiness. But, even with their (good and bad) memories erased, their true feelings might just be enough to bring the two back together again.

From the minds of two of Hollywood’s most-visionary creators comes this love story the likes of which you’ve never seen — it serves as a reminder that, no matter how much you try to rid your mind of heartache, the power of love can guide you to where you deserve to be.

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China C. Billotte Verhoff (Ph.D, Purdue) is an Associate Professor of Interpersonal Communication in the School of Communication Studies at Ohio University. Situate at the intersection of interpersonal and organizational communication, her research program explores the lived experiences of individuals with stigmatized and marginalized identities to address systemic issues of inequality and foster well-being. With her work on stigma, support, disclosure, and social justice, her broader goal is to a) re-center marginalized voices in knowledge creation and communication theorizing, and b) highlight the implications of her work for communication-centered approaches to equality and justice. Her most recent projects have examined the discursive forces that animate the meanings of maternity leave and how mothers internalize , navigate and resist the stigmatization of their rage. Dr. Billotte Verhoff’s work has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Communication Monographs, Sex Roles, the Journal of Language and Social Psychology, and Health Communication.

Dr. Billotte Verhoff teachers graduate and undergraduate courses in interpersonal communication, family communication, and communication and ethics. Highlighting the synergistic interplay between her research, teaching, and service, Dr. Billotte Verhoff has spent several years facilitating inclusive pedagogy efforts at the university. She is a co-facilitator of the Inclusive Pedagogy Academy (IPA) run by the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment. Her work in the area of inclusive pedagogy has been recognized with the Chairs and Deans Emerging Leadership Award. Dr. Billotte Verhoff is also the recipient of the Univerity Professor Award, one of the two highest teaching honors available at Ohio University.

When not teaching, Dr. Billotte Verhoff enjoys film photography, spending time with loved ones, and hiking.

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108 MIN