Giving Voice to Hunger – An Evening in 2 parts

Part 1: Join poets Karen Douglass and Carolyn Jennings for an evening "meal," a reading to explore many of our appetites, in recognition of both the physical need in our community and National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, two facets of hunger in our world.

Please bring a favorite poem about food, hunger or body image/eating disorders by anyone of your choosing to read at open mic. Please bring a non-perishable food donation for Food Bank of the Rockies.

Refreshments will, of course, be served.

"There is no happiness like mine.

I have been eating poetry."

Mark Strand, "Eating Poetry" 

Part 2: Please join Mirror Image Arts for a preview of our original play "Breaking the Silence", a series of vignettes that showcase the various faces of eating disorders. We will be performing two vignettes and will be available for a discussion, along with a licensed therapist, Kate Broyles Daigle, to help process the intense emotions surrounding eating disorders and disordered eating. Eating disorders thrive in silence. Breaking that silence and facing the issues is the best way to fight back. 

Bios:

For over twenty years, Carolyn Jennings (www.WritingOurWings.com) has used her journal as a primary tool for recovery from an eating disorder and in creating a thriving life.  This experience inspired her to write the award-winning Hunger Speaks: a memoir told in poetry and to become a Journal to the Self® certified instructor.  She now guides others to uncover awareness, wholeness, freedom and abundance through their pens.

Karen Douglass writes poems, novels, a blog, and grocery lists. She lives in Colorado with three dogs, one cat, and her family. You can visit her at www.kvdbooks.com or you can come to Broomfield. Her books include Red Goddess Poems; Bones in the Chimney (fiction); Green Rider, Thinking Horse (non-fiction); Sostenuto, (prose poems) and The Great Hunger (poems), which is available from Plain View Press (2009). A new poetry chapbook, Two-Gun Lil, is scheduled for independent publication this year. 

Mirror Image Arts is a non profit educational theatre company that uses their original play "Breaking the Silence" to raise awareness, inspire change and spark conversation about the emotional topics of eating disorders and body image. "Breaking the Silence", written by a woman recovering from anorexia and bulimia, is a series of vignettes showcasing the various faces of both eating disorders and disordered eating. Mirror Image brings "Breaking the Silence" to area schools, churches and community centers free of charge. After the show the actors of Mirror Image, together with a licensed therapist, lead an in depth discussion with the audience. Mirror Image aims to break the silence surrounding these all to common issues.  For more information contact Erin Jorgenson at  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  or visit our website at www.mirrorimagearts.org.