PAST EVENTS
- Thursday, October 4, 2007: New Haven Premiere: People Say I’m Crazy – a sold out film event chronicling the intimate details of artist John Cadigan’s decade-long battle to recover from schizophrenia - featured esteemed filmmakers John and Katie Cadigan.
- Tuesday, May 1, 2007: "Street of Dreams: Dancing Under The Stars," featured the Yale Dance Alliance in a Dance-Jam of Ballroom, Swing, Hip Hop, Salsa, Cha-Cha, Rumba and more! Communitarian award recipients: CT State Representatives Cameron Staples and Toni Walker
- Thursday, March 29, 2007: The 5th Annual Albert J. Solnit, MD, Memorial Event - Recovery: It's A Whole New Story - a sold out event featuring Dr. William Anthony, Professor & Director of the Center for Psychiatric Rehavilitation, Boston University.
- Thursday, March 9th, 2006: Al Solnit Memorial Lecture - a sold out event featuring sisters Carolyn Spiro, MD and Pamela Spiro Wagner, authors of “Divided Minds” Twin Sisters and Their Journey Through Schizophrenia. Co-chairs Ben Solnit, Malcom Bowers and Daniel Koenigsberg.
- November 14th, 2005: Dr. Ruth Westheimer was the featured guest speaker at Fellowship in an evening to raise awareness of Fellowship's Comprehensive Campaign. Dr. Ruth spoke on Sex, Marriage and Meaningful relationships, and was brought to the agency by her dear friend and collaborator, and Fellowship Board Member Dr. William Sledge. Also speaking was Dr. Carolyn Mazure; and Fellowship Member Kelley Verrier gave a show stopping performance with a number from CHICAGO.
- May, 2005: The Annual “Street of Dreams”: Fellowship's yearly tradition features prominent guest speakers sharing the latest research and cutting edge discoveries in the field of mental health followed by a smorgasbord of artistic celebration and culinary delights. 2005 Speakers included Tami Greig, PhD, Bruce Wexler MD & Larry Davidson, PhD.
- June, 2004: We were honored to welcome Dr. David Satcher, M.D., Ph.D., 16th Surgeon General of the U.S. and Director of the National Center for Primary Care at the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, GA.
- April, 2004: We welcomed Courtenay M. Harding, Ph.D., Director of the Institute for the Study of Human Resilience and Rehabilitation Sciences at Boston University.
- 2003: Dr. Patricia Goldman-Rakic, and Eugene Higgins Professor of Neurobiology at the Yale, spoke on what drives normal memory and potential new treatments of schizophrenia and other brain disorders.
- 2002: A celebration of the artists at Fellowship Place introduced the general public and patrons of the arts to‚ Outsider Art‚ through an exhibit, slide presentation, and panel discussion. Joining us were Lee Kogan, the Director of the Folk Art Institute, an educational division of the American Folk Art Museum in New York City; Roger Ricco, co-owner of Ricco/Maresca Gallery in NYC; Rebecca Hoffberger, Founder/Director of the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, MD; and Charles Russell, Chair of the Department of English at Rutgers University.
- January, 2002: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, won the 2001 National Book Award, chronicling the life of Andrew Solomon, a Yale alumna. Fellowship honored Mr. Solomon with a reception and program.
- 2001: Fellowship celebrated its 40th Anniversary with an event at the Yale Art Gallery that included a panel discussion. We were honored to have had William Styron join us, as well as Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison (Author and Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine), and Jane Heimlich (author of the best-selling book, What Your Doctor Won't Tell You) share their collective wisdom on "living well and mental health."
- 2000: Mia Farrow came to Fellowship and read selected passages from Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness, written by Pulitzer Prize winner, William Styron.
- 1999: Sylvia Nassar (author of A Beautiful Mind) read from her book and shared her experience interviewing John Nash.