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Mental Illness Awareness Week

Two events with special guest Vancouver - housing advocate Judy Graves Monday 6:30 6 Oct at the Movie Monday Theatre and 6:30 pm Tuesday 7 October at St John The Divine Church

Poster for 6 and 7 October Poster for 7 October

The Devil Plays Hardball, 2008, 50 min
& The Schoolhouse, 2007, 6 min
6 October 2008

The Devil Plays Hardball If you could get one person off the street, would you? Could you? Devil Plays Hardball is a radical interventionist documentary by Paperny Films that seeks to answer this question.

Also: The Schoolhouse - a short film that accompanied a Globe & Mail article about "wet" housing in Toronto, supportive housing where alcohol is allowed. info

We had an in depth discussion on the topic of homelessness - the causes and concrete solutions with Judy Graves who has been helping people find a way off the streets in Vancouver for 30 years, now working from City Hall.