Meet my Shrink: The Important Things, With David Pagan, Elisabet Topp & Eben Louw - in English - 28.11.2024, 19:00 – 22:30

In an interactive talk show Keith Bernard Stonum (JOiN Leitung) and Eben Louw (Psychologist) will discuss mental health and how your environment can affect it. Topics range from passive aggressive colleagues at the office job to your current romantic "situationship."

No talkshow is complete without musical guests. The Liz and Dave Band (Performer/Director Elisabet Topp and the Performer/Composer David Pagan) will present their work in progress, "The Important Things," a song cycle reflecting on the many things that compete for our attention and the basic things in life which are important to us, no matter who we are or where we are from.

English-speakers, this edition of "Abends im JOiN" is for you.

Location
Nord

Pay what you want – from 2,50 Euro to 25 Euro – as you like.

WithHost: Keith Bernard Stonum
Guest Psychologist: Eben Louw
Musical Guests: The Liz and Dave Band

Eben Louw

Eben Louw is a health psychologist, specialist consultant in psychotraumatology, supervisor, systemic therapist and counselor and emotion-focused couple therapist. He is the founder of evolve now - systemic supervision, counseling and training. He has over 10 years of experience in anti-discrimination work and in psychological counseling for victims of right-wing, racist and anti-Semitic violence.
Today he works as a supervisor, therapist, coach and trainer. He is active nationwide in the training and further education of counselors. Most recently, he was a trainer in a qualification series for Black anti-discrimination counselors, with a focus on anti-Black racism. He is also involved as a lecturer at universities, where he designs and conducts courses for social work students. He is co-author of the book "Racism-Sensitive Counseling and Therapy for Refugees."

The Liz & Dave Band

With Elisabet Topp and David Pagan

The performance will be started around six self-composed songs about the important things in life: security, variety, love and connection, meaning, learning and contribution. But what about the multitude of small things that – just as important - which determine our daily lives? So many thoughts and ideas influence us, pushing their importance upon us: This is what you should look like! That's good for you! The way we do it is right - everyone else is wrong! Never miss out, so be online all the time!

We keep our performance flexible so that we can quickly adapt to our audience and the location – in German, English and Norwegian. The songs should be complete in themselves, but complement each other to become one continuous performance.

Elisabet was born by the beautiful lake of Mjøsa, in Norway. She has traveled the world with theatre for the last twenty years. She thrives in all types of genres and styles and is a versatile performer with comic timing. She is singing as much as she is talking and has extensive experience with ensemble work, working devised in interaction with music and sound design. Her heros are the davids - Bowie and Lynch. And Pagan.

David was Born in Berwick-upon-Tweed in the rugged hilly borderlands between Scotland and England. He studied music and acting in London and after many years on the road with www.nie-theatre.com and other international theater groups he landed in Germany. Yesterday, David enjoyed music from Aphex Twin, Tatiana Nikolayeva; Shostakovich: Piano Preludes und Fugues, MNEK and the 'nose flute intro' from Sponge Bob Square Pants. Who 'nose' what will inspire him today?

These events are part of the Evenings at the JOiN series: once a month, JOiN invites art and culture, associations, groups and communities from the city to perform on the stage in the Nord - with live podcasts, late-night formats, concerts ... Are you looking for a stage for your club, group or community and want to be part of the Evenings at the JOiN series? Then get in touch at: join@staatstheater-stuttgart.de.

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Meet my Shrink: The Important Things

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