Event Update Feb 17, 2020
On February 13, 2020, the eve of the second anniversary of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School tragedy, Broward College North campus in collaboration with members of the South Campus hosted the South Florida book launch of If I Don’t Make It, I Love You by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. This anthology collects more than sixty narratives from school shooting survivors, family members, and community leaders covering fifty years of shootings in America, from the 1966 UT-Austin Tower shooting through May 2018’s Santa Fe shooting, of which MSD survivors are contributors.
This event featured one the book’s editors Amye Archer; Dara Haas, the MSD teacher of Room 1216, who had 7 students shot in her room, 3 fatally; Rachel Bean, a graduate from MSD now attending UCF; and Harold Ng, a survivor of the February 14, 2008 school shooting at Northern Illinois University, who shared a letter he wrote to the Parkland students that was published in the anthology. The highlight of the night was panel discussion with the readers accompanied by two local mental health professionals: Dr, Arlene Gordon a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Director of the Brief Therapy Institute at Nova Southeastern University, and Dr. Deborah Eve Grayson, a licensed mental health counselor who is a poetry therapist and expressive arts specialist teaching at Lynn University. The panel discussed how writing and the arts have helped them through their trauma, which gave new meaning to the courses we offer through the AHCD Pathway here at Broward College.
To call If I Don’t Make It, I Love You a successful event would be a severe understatement. This event was truly a collaborative effort by so many people and organization of like the Broward County Library, the Guild for Art and Literature of Coconut and Sky Horse Publishing in additional to our college departments within the AHCD Pathway, the North and South English Departments, the North and South Academic Success centers, and the college-wide Department of Student Engagement & Cultural Affairs. This community approach in producing such a necessary event proved to unify our community through the written word.
To view films clips, hear audio recording, or read reviews of the event If I Don’t Make It, I Love You, please select the links below:
Media Links Feb 17, 2020
Thank you to the journalist that covered the event. Here are some of the links to the stories they filed on the event. More links to come.
South Florida Media Network
http://sfmn.fiu.edu/mass-shooting-survivors-discuss-writing-arts-as-a-way-to-heal/
NPR affiliate WLRN audio segment
https://www.wlrn.org/post/two-years-after-parkland-community-still-healing#stream/0
Photography Nazli Amirghasemi
https://flic.kr/s/aHsmLsxogG
YouTube Live Stream
Part 1 wifi interrupted https://youtu.be/o5mEUha3V3s
Part 2 https://youtu.be/TLW8BEc5UVg
Event Update Feb 13, 2020
On the eve of the second anniversary of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School tragedy, we are hosting the South Florida book launch of If I Don’t Make It, I Love You by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. at Broward College North Campus Library 1100 Coconut Creek Blvd, Coconut Creek, FL 33066 (click for directions).
Tickets: www.AHCD.EventBrite.com
OIAF/GAL FB to connect to: https://www.facebook.com/orangeislandartsfoundation/
GAL groups page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/GALinCC/
Twitter:
YouTube: https://youtu.be/TLW8BEc5UVg
https://youtu.be/o5mEUha3V3s https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIjXaffh6brZZuVufWzgr5Q
This book launch will feature readings and a book signing by survivors of the MSD tragedy published within this anthology. If I Don’t Make It, I Love You collects more than sixty narratives from school shooting survivors, family members, and community leaders covering fifty years of shootings in America, from the 1966 UT-Austin Tower shooting through May 2018’s Santa Fe shooting. After the reading, one of the book’s editors, Amye Archer will sit on a panel with MSD survivors for a discussion hosted by Professor Laura McDermott regarding the cathartic nature of writing as a means to heal from tragedy. The audience is welcome to engage with the panel during a Q&A session, as well as an interactive art activity taking place in the outdoor courtyard. If I Don’t Make It, I Love You by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. will be for sale in the lobby of the library.
> Doors open at 6:00 PM, with event starting promptly at 6:30 PM. Seating is limited, so please reserve your seat using the EventBrite link and arrive early. Unclaimed reserved tickets will be released at 6:25PM. You are invited to attend; however, we will be live-streaming the event through our campus YouTube channel. Click to subscribe and create an alert for the event. http://youtube.com/BCSouthCampus
Save the Date – Event Updated Above
February 13th, 6:30pm BCNorth Campus
On the eve of the second anniversary of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School tragedy, we are hosting the South Florida book launch of If I Don’t Make It, I Love You by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. at Broward College North Campus Library (directions). This book launch will feature readings by survivors of the MSD tragedy published within this anthology. If I Don’t Make It, I Love You collects more than sixty narratives from school shooting survivors, family members, and community leaders covering fifty years of shootings in America, from the 1966 UT-Austin Tower shooting through May 2018’s Santa Fe shooting. One of the book’s editors, Amye Archer, will host a panel of MSD survivors as well as a Q&A session.
You are invited to attend, but we will be live-streaming the event.
Details on our Facebook event.
Tickets: www.AHCD.EventBrite.com
OIAF/GAL FB to connect to: https://www.facebook.com/orangeislandartsfoundation/
GAL groups page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/GALinCC/
Twitter:
YouTube: https://youtu.be/o5mEUha3V3s https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIjXaffh6brZZuVufWzgr5Q
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