(upbeat music) - Dance for Life, Suicide Awareness Gala brings the dance community and the public together in solidarity for better mental health and suicide prevention.

And here to tell us more is Kristin Barlow.

Kristin, hi, thanks for being here.

You've got so much going on, but first, why don't you just briefly tell us about the organization and what you do.

- Well, our organization started about four years ago and it focuses on mental health, kind of eliminating the stigma of mental health, having people talk about mental health, and then we involve the dance arts into that equation because we feel like it's very therapeutic, and studies have shown that.

And so we're kind of incorporating mental health, suicide prevention and the dance community altogether.

- You have an incredible event coming up.

- Yes.

- Tell us all about that.

- Yes, I'm so excited.

So this is our fourth year.

This year, it's going to be at the Capitol Theater, and we have an all day event.

So we bring in dance stars from like, "So You Think You Can Dance?"

"World of Dance," ones that are very well known.

We bring, fly them in, and then they volunteer to do these master classes, and it's for the dance, and ballet will be at the Capitol Theater ballet, studios and dance studios will come to that, have these master classes, and then we have a wellness workshop with Kirsten Kemp, who we fly in also.

She was a professional dancer, and does these mental health workshops.

So we're bringing her in.

And then in the afternoon we have, oh, we have Mariah Russel coming this time from "So You Think You Can Dance?"

She's our special guest.

So we're really excited about that.

And then following that, we have a wonderful forum that we started a couple years ago, but we're so excited, it's Stomp Out Stigma, SOS forum, with Bob Cattel, and he is an internationally known motivational speaker, and he's amazing.

And he has volunteered to come and do this for us.

So that will be at the Capitol Theater from 4:30 to 6.

And then we have our performance at the end.

- Oh, you've got so much going on.

People are gonna have to, - Yes.

I'll give 'em a website from more don't worry.

- Oh for sure.

- Anyway, thanks for being here.

- Hey, no, thanks for having me, appreciate it.

Thank you, Mary.

- And if you would like to know more about everything coming up, Dance for Life the Suicide Awareness Gala, that's September 10th, which is World Suicide Prevention Day, by the way.

Event's at the Capitol Theater and Brighton High School.

To find out everything go to danceforlifenation.org, danceforlifenation.org.

I'm Mary Dickson.

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