NEC's 20th Anniversary Celebration in Boston

NEC's 20th Anniversary Celebration

You are cordially invited to the

National Empowerment Center’s Twentieth Anniversary!

Thursday, July 12, 2012

We would be honored if you would join us to help celebrate two decades of the National Empowerment Center spreading the message of recovery, empowerment and hope.

Program

5:00 pm - Opening reception/refreshments

6:30 – Welcome, short talks on NEC history and celebration

7:00 Sick, a play written and performed by Elizabeth Kenny

8:15 - 8:45 pm Socializing and conclusion

Whether or not you can attend, your donations are welcome.

You can donate by clicking here.

If you can't join in person, you are invited to submit a statement about how the work of NEC has impacted your recovery or your community by clicking here. We will create a compilation of these tributes to be shared at our event.

About Sick: Elizabeth Kenny was a healthy thirty-two year-old woman who went to the doctor for a common ailment. A year and a half later, she was being escorted by hospital orderlies to a coffee shop along with the rest of the level 5 patients from the psych ward. “Sick” explores a patient’s two-year odyssey inside the most advanced healthcare system in the world — an odyssey that almost killed her. It investigates how treatment by well-meaning practitioners for a common gynecological issue plunged her into a downward spiral through the complex medical and mental health establishments.

Directions to The Boston University Photonics Center

8 Saint Mary's St., Boston, MA 02215

FROM SOUTH OR WEST

Take the Mass Turnpike (I-90) East to Exit 18, Allston/Cambridge. Exit left. Bear right following signs towards Cambridge. Take an immediate right at the Doubletree Suites onto Storrow Drive (second set of lights, but both before crossing bridge). Exit Storrow Drive at the Kenmore exit. Follow Local Directions below.

FROM SOUTHEAST

Take I-93/Route 3 (Southeast Expressway) North to Boston. Exit onto Storrow Drive (Exit 26). Continue on Storrow Drive to the Kenmore exit. Then follow Local Directions below.

FROM NORTH

Take I-93 or Route 1 South to Boston. Exit onto Storrow Drive (Exit 26). Continue on Storrow Drive to the Kenmore exit. Follow Local Directions below.

LOCAL DIRECTIONS FROM THE KENMORE SQUARE EXIT OFF STORROW DRIVE
At the first set of traffic lights, turn right onto Beacon Street. At this point, the road forks; the right fork is Bay State Road, the left fork will take you into Kenmore Square. Take the left fork. When in Kenmore Square, bear right onto Commonwealth Avenue. At the fourth set of lights, take a left onto Saint Mary’s Street. The Photonics Center is on your left at 8 Saint Mary’s Street.

FROM PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION

Subway: Take the Green line Westbound B train and exit at BU Central (beyond Kenmore Square stop). Walk up St. Mary’s street away from Marsh Plaza one half block. The Photonics Center will be on your left.

Bus: Exit bus #57 at St. Mary’s Street and Commonwealth Avenue, just past the Radioshack. 

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