Grant: Knowledge Translation Supplement

This grant would fund future performances and the production of a professional video of "You Arrive," a performance piece based upon grant funded data collected at the Montreal Children's Hospital. Following a large scale study investigating suicidal youth and their treatment, Bonnie Harnden has culled the data to create a depiction of how familial stress and conflict contribute to psychiatric symptoms in children, and how developmental processes can be halted as a result. "You Arrive" explores this trauma and also how development can resume with therapeutic intervention. Through narration, text, video, embodiment, and music the audience is given a visceral and emotional understanding of complex family dynamics. Thus, quantitative is data is transformed into a meaningful and immediate experience which can be used to train therapists, disseminate knowledge to families, and reach children and youth in need.