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Next date: Friday, 18 October 2024 | 07:00 PM to 09:15 PM

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THEIRS and partners are excited to have you along to attend this community event on our last stop on our tour.

With Guest Speaker JAZZ THORNTON

A little about us is that we are a non-for-profit organisation called THEIRS which is anacronym standing for Talk, Hear and Help, Educate, Inform, Refer and Support. We are a mental health and suicide prevention community organisation, whose foundation was formed because of the community’s need for more support and guidance around mental health. We run events in the Smithton and Wynyard municipalities and along the North-West Coast of Tasmania and hope to be statewide in the future.

THEIRS events see unique perspectives from specialists, victim-survivors or advocates and health professionals sharing their knowledge and experience with the selected topic, in panel or guest speaker formats and we develop resources as needed. Service providers are also present at our events, offering their services and support for the community.

You may have seen us previously or attended some of our other events including a panel speaking event, drive-in cinema or hosting Matthew Caruana at a community and school’s event. We have also just recently returned from a trip to Canberra, where two members and founder Laura was able to pitch our organisation to parliament at the Heywire Youth Summit 2024, launching us onto a national platform.

About Jazz Thornton

If you don’t know who Jazz Thornton is, she is an international mental health advocate who Co-Founded Voices of Hope.

Following her own battle with mental illness, Jazz has now dedicated her life to speaking hope and creating change in the area of mental health through her organisation Voices of Hope. Her unique experience and practical message has gained worldwide recognition, being shared through media, international speaking engagements and now through a new feature documentary film, The Girl on The Bridge" that premiered in 2020.

She directed the award-winning series Jessica's Tree and is the author of the best-selling books "Stop Surviving, Start Fighting" and "My Journey Starts Here .

In 2017 Jazz was named New Zealand's youngest director to win the annual Doc Edge pitching contest, her series The Silence Projectaims to shed light to the stories behind New Zealand's suicide statistics while changing the way we have conversations about it.
In 2021, Jazz was awarded The Point of Light award from Her Majesty the Queen and was named the 2021 Young New Zealander of the Year.
In 2022 Jazz was crowned champion of New Zealand's Dancing With The Stars, raise funds and awareness for Youthline.

Jazz is a talented motivational speaker who knows how to get a crowd inspired. She has spoken at hundreds of schools, conferences and events around the globe, sharing her story and provoking change. From inspiring high school students to making suited men feel challenged and empowered, Jazz can speak in any environment. With a focus on facing challenges while identifying opportunities, Jazz’s story will leave you understanding that you can be the change in the world you long to see.

At the event we will also have service providers present, supports and supper on the evening.

If you are from Circular Head, we have a bus to transport people, free of charge to and from the event. Email info.theirs.event@gmail.com to reserve your bus seats or book below. The bus will be departing from the Smithton Guide Hall by 5:30 pm, arrive at the Burnie Arts and Function Centre by 6:45 pm and return around 11 pm.

Link for booking bus seat: https://www.trybooking.com/CUVSE

For bookings - Tickets will be available on Wednesday 11 September