Stand Up For Mental Health In The Media

A short clip from the VOICE Award winning CBC documentary Cracking Up that chronicles a year in the life of Stand Up For Mental Health

The Australian show Dateline sent internationally acclaimed video journalist David Brill to do a piece on SMH where he came to Vancouver and then followed David to Albuquerque and Portland where he was doing shows with groups he’d trained there.

David on Studio 4 with Fanny Kiefer Part 1

A Funny Thing Happened To Me On My Way To Mental Illness

Australia Broadcast Corporation radio interview on SMH

BBC Interview with David: These Canadian comedians mean to make you laugh but they are also throwing punchlines at a wall of prejudice.

Globe and Mail article about David’s work teaching comedy to a group of sex trade workers

David talks about Gallery Gachet, a gallery for people with mental health issues.

The Sydney Morning Herald’s piece on WISE Stand Up For Mental Health’s show in Sydney, Australia

CTV National News in Canada did this piece where they interviewed our Vancouver class

Globe and Mail article about SMH’s 10th Anniversary show

David on Studio 4 with Fanny Kiefer Part 2

Australia Broadcasting Corporation’s national news show 730 Report’s piece on the WISE SMH show in Melbourne in Oct 2013

Four short clips where David discusses humour in relationships, humour in the workplace, humour and trauma using humour to cope with stress, and inappropriate humor.

Huffington Post UK article on SMH

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Andi Cuddington’s London School of Economics MA Thesis on Stand Up For Mental Health.

Web article on SMH from Australia Broadcasting Corporation’s All In The Mind