A ‘graphic memoir’ about brothers’ shared experiences with schizophrenia
Two of Clem Martini’s brothers have been diagnosed with schizophrenia. One is Ben, the youngest. The other is Olivier, or Liv, an artist. Olivier illustrates this graphic memoir with a subtle hand…his side in a long conversation, spanning some 30 years, with his brother Clem, a Calgary playwright.
Bitter Medicine graphically and artistically captures the fears and frustrations that all too often accompany the devastation caused by schizophrenia for those living with the illness and their family members, according to Chris Summerville of the Schizophrenia Society of Canada. (more…)
Singer-songwriter Simon Walls’ travels began shortly after the loss of a friend to suicide. He spent seven months in the 
No parent ever wants to see their child develop a chronic medical disability. But, when it is one that is so misunderstood by society as is schizophrenia and other serious mental illnesses, it is even more traumatic. Now, a new book called 
Two students from Ottawa’s Canterbury High School have created a theatre production based on overcoming unhealthy body image. The play, called “Enough: A Whimsical and Political Statement About Beauty and Self-Image,” was recently presented on the Fourth Stage of the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.
Let Beauty Be: a Season in the Highlands, Guatemala is a cycle of sequential poems distilled from events and impressions Kit Pepper gained while volunteering in the northwestern highlands of Guatemala from February to May, 2006. There she was aligned with Alianza, a project which responded to grassroots requests for education and health care from the local Mam-speaking women and men of Comitancillo and surrounding, rural aldeas.
The trailer has been viewed over 22,000 times on YouTube…and the DVD is about to be released. For eleven months, a core group of students at Nanaimo’s Wellington Secondary School have been at work on the feature film, “How to Survive the 10th Grade,” with a cast of forty students, ten crew members, and others. The film touches on a range of high school issues, including drug use, violence, rivalry and peer and sexual pressure. 