TWLOHA Announces "Tomorrow Needs You" Campaign
in Honor of World Suicide Prevention Day
Melbourne, Fla. - August 13, 2018 - The nonprofit To Write Love on Her Arms just launched its 7thannual campaign to honor World Suicide Prevention Day (September 10) and National Suicide Prevention Week (September 9 - September 15). This year's campaign is called " Tomorrow Needs You."
According to the World Health Organization, 800,000 people die by suicide globally each year. That's one person every 40 seconds. Additionally, the CDC recently reported that as of 2016, the suicide rate in the United States has risen 25% over the last 20 years.
TWLOHA Founder Jamie Tworkoswki shared: "World Suicide Prevention Day has become the most important day of the year for TWLOHA. This campaign is our biggest and best attempt not only to bring a message of hope and encouragement to folks all over, but also to raise money for people to get the help they need and deserve."
Nancy Lublin, CEO of Crisis Text Line said: "This campaign is all about empowering people to reach out for help and share their experiences. It's so reflective of who To Write Love on Her Arms is-warm and empathetic, focused on bringing out the best in people."
People can participate in this year's campaign by purchasing the organization's World Suicide Prevention Day pack, joining the conversation on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook using #TomorrowNeedsYou, #WSPD18, and by donating to their fundraising campaign. TWLOHA has set a goal to raise $100,000 to provide counseling scholarships and to help connect thousands of people to local mental health resources.
To Write Love on Her Arms is a nonprofit dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury, and suicide. It exists to encourage, inform, inspire, and also to invest directly into treatment and recovery. Since its start in 2006, TWLOHA has donated over $2.1 million directly into treatment and recovery and answered over 210,000 messages from over 100 countries. For more information on To Write Love on Her Arms, please visit: www.twloha.com.
In addition to this year's WSPD campaign, TWLOHA recently announced three dates of "An Evening With To Write Love on Her Arms." The tour will run from September 18-20, hitting Tampa, FL, Gainesville, FL, and Atlanta, GA, respectively. The evening will consist of Tworkowski speaking, plus performances by two-time National Poetry Slam champion, Sierra DeMulder, and musician JP Saxe. Tickets for all three nights are on sale now. General admission tickets range from $13-$15, and VIP tickets are $40, which includes a pre-show Meet & Greet + Q&A. For more information, please visit: https://twloha.com/events/.
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Kris Kristofferson & The Strangers to Perform at Kingsbury Hall on January 16, 2019
Monday, August 13 - Kris Kristofferson & The Strangers to perform on Wednesday, August 16 at Kingsbury Hall located at 1395 E. Presidents Circle, Salt Lake City, UT 84112. This Show is all ages and begins at 7:30PM with doors opening at 6:30PM.
Tickets are $35, $45, $55, $65 & $75 and all price levels will increase by $3 on the day of the show. Tickets go on sale Friday, August 17 10AM and are available online at Kingtix.com, by phone at 801-581-7100, or in person at the Kingsbury Hall Box Office.
Kris Kristofferson has been making things happen his entire life. Born in Texas and raised in a military family, he was a Golden Gloves boxer who studied creative writing at Pomona College in California. The Phi Beta Kappa graduate earned a Rhodes scholarship to study literature at Oxford, where he boxed, played rugby and continued to write songs. After graduating from Oxford, Kristofferson served in the army as an Airborne Ranger helicopter pilot and achieved the rank of Captain. In 1965, Kristofferson turned down an assignment to teach at West Point and, inspired by songwriters like Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash, moved to Nashville to pursue his music.
“When I was in the army, I was one of the few people outside of his personal friends who knew about Willie Nelson,” Kristofferson recalls. “I listened to a disc jockey who happened to be a Willie fan. He would play Willie’s songs and talk about him all the time. By the time I got to Nashville, he was a superhero to me. For guys like me, Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson were two gods we worshipped. Then Willie and I got to be best friends. I came from a position of idolizing him to finding out he’s the funniest son of a bitch you could be around.”
After struggling in Music City for several years, Kristofferson achieved remarkable success as a country songwriter at the start of the 1970s. His songs "Me and Bobby McGee," "Help Me Make It Through the Night," "Sunday Morning Coming Down," and "For the Good Times," all chart-topping hits, helped redefine country songwriting. By 1987, it was estimated that more than 450 artists had recorded Kristofferson’s compositions.
His renown as a songwriter triggered Kristofferson’s successful career as a performer and that, in turn, brought him to the attention of Hollywood, leading to his flourishing career as a film actor. Kristofferson has acted in more than 70 films. In 1977 He won a Golden Globe for Best Actor in “A Star Is Born.” He’s appeared in cult favorites including the “Blade” trilogy, “Lone Star,” “A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries,” “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore,” “Blume In Love,” “Cisco Pike,” and “Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.” Recent films include “Fast Food Nation,” “Dreamer: Inspired By A True Story,” “The Jacket,” “Silver City,” “He’s Just Not That In To You,” and “Dolphin Tale.”
Heralded as an artist’s artist, the three-time GRAMMY winner has recorded 30 albums, including three with pals Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings as part of the Highwaymen. Kristofferson has spent three decades performing concerts all over the world, in most recent years in a solo acoustic setting, which puts the focus on the songs. “There’s an honesty in the sparseness. It feels like direct communication to the listener,” he says. “I still have more fun when I’m with the band, but being alone is freer, somehow. It’s like being an old blues guy, just completely stripped away.”
Many would have hung their hat by now. Instead, Kristofferson barely has paused for breath. He’s released several recent high watermarks including the increasingly intimate A Moment of Forever (1995), The Austin Sessions (1999) and This Old Road (2006), and he produced some of his finest work with the deeply personal Closer to the Bone (2009) and Feeling Mortal (2013). Kristofferson has reached living legend status, but that hasn’t changed or hindered his creativity. His current CD, The Cedar Creek Sessions, was recorded live at Austin’s Cedar Creek Recording Studio in June 2014. Released in time for Kristofferson’s 80th birthday in 2016, the double-CD set is a snapshot of the legendary songwriter in the twilight of his life.
In addition to many other awards, Kristofferson is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, winner of the prestigious Johnny Mercer Award from the Songwriter Hall of Fame, and was honored with the American Veteran’s Association’s “Veteran of the Year Award” in 2002. For Kristofferson’s 70th birthday in 2006, his friends and admirers gifted him with a tribute CD, The Pilgrim: A Celebration of Kris Kristofferson. Stars including Willie Nelson, Russell Crowe, Emmylou Harris, Gretchen Wilson, Rosanne Cash, and Brian McKnight recorded 17 of Kristofferson’s compositions for the tribute. In 2007, Kristofferson was honored with the Johnny Cash Visionary Award from Country Music Television and in 2009 BMI lauded Kristofferson with the Icon Award. He received the Frances Preston Music Industry Award from the T.J. Martell Foundation in March, 2012. In 2014, Kristofferson was honored with a GRAMMY Lifetime Achievement Award and the PEN Song Lyrics of Literary Excellence Award.
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Sutherland Institute announces Rep. Curtis will discuss opioid epidemic Monday in 2018 Congressional Event Series
SALT LAKE CITY — Today Sutherland Institute announced Congressman John Curtis will be participating in its 2018 Congressional Event Series. Curtis will be leading a roundtable discussion on the opioid epidemic and its impact on rural Utah. Details for this event are below. It will be livestreamed on Facebook.
Attendance is by invitation only; guests include rural mayors, commissioners, state legislators, and other community leaders who will be discussing the challenges their communities are facing and the resources they have available to combat the opioid epidemic.
From Sutherland President Rick Larsen:
“Sutherland is honored to host another edition of the 2018 Congressional Event Series,” Larsen said. “Each event to date has addressed vital topics, and this will be no exception. The opioid epidemic continues to devastate Utah families and communities – rural communities are particularly affected. We look forward to gathering in Price, Utah, to hear Congressman Curtis’ vision as to how we can address the issue and improve the lives of those impacted by this crisis.”
From Representative John Curtis:
“The opioid epidemic is a national crisis that has had a particularly devastating effect in Utah,” Curtis said. “I’ve seen the toll it has taken on our families, especially our rural communities. I’m looking forward to discussing the measures I’m taking in Washington with my POPPY Act legislation and other solutions that will address treatment and recovery, addiction prevention, and community protection.”
EVENT DETAILS
*This event will be livestreamed on Sutherland Institute’s Facebook page*
WHEN: Monday, Aug. 13, 10:30 a.m.
WHERE: USU Eastern-Price Campus
Alumni Room
451 E. 400 North
Price, Utah 84501
