Two shows in which members of the Black Men Speak! speaker’s bureau talk of their problems with mental illness and substance abuse and how they have turned their lives around.

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Notes on music and art:
The composer of the music and the painters of the pictures used in the show lived with serious mental health problems.

Music:
Promenade from Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky

Paintings:
The Parable of the Good Samaritan by Francesco Bassano
Old Man in Sorrow by Vincent van Gogh

The Erythraean Sibyl (Sistine Chapel) by Michelangelo

Note: The views expressed in this program are those of the speakers and not necessarily those of Alameda County Behavioral Healthcare.

Producer: Shannon Eliot, Media and Marketing Coordinator, P.E.E.R.S.
Recording Studio: James Earl-Rockefeller III, VJTV, President, Executive Producer
Editor: Alan Kolsky, Digital Video Dimensions, founder, senior video editor