ABOUT SECOND HELPING
Upcoming confirmed dates
July 12th at 7 pm in Ithaca-ish: Church of the Epiphany 11 Elm St, Trumansburg, NY More details here. (no advance tickets, we’re doing pay as you can to support Kelli’s storytelling workshops for LGBT young folks in areas where there are not other resources)
August 2nd at 7 pm in Ann Arbor, MI, Great Oak Cohousing Community Center 500 Little Lake Drive. PLEASE NOTE: COVID CAUTIOUS ACCESS NOTES: This is being held on the porch of the community center for access reasons. More details of other accessibility questions here. (No advance tickets, we’re doing pay as you can to support Kelli’s storytelling workshops for LGBT young folks in areas where there are not other resources)
August 16th 7 pm Osh Kosh Public Library 106 Washington Avenue, Osh Kosh WI details TBA here. Free, courtesy of the amazing folks at OshKosh Public Library.
Many more in the fall!
MORE ABOUT SECOND HELPING
As seen at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Hiram College, featured in Kristin Duffy’s Second Chapter podcast and Chris Vepoli’s Worst Time For Anything. BBC Scotland, BBC-4, and in a beautiful piece by Matilda Davis for the Sun Times. Kelli performed an excerpt from Second Helping as part of an event with Glasgow’s Friends At The End and MSP Rona McKay. Because…well, that’s the kind of thing Kelli does.
PSSST want to watch a few excerpts? Don’t tell anyone but you can watch a few choice moments…
When Heather was dying, she fancied herself a comedian…
Cheryl and I played a game called NYC when
What kind of first confession does a future nun have?
Kelli Dunham grew up the youngest child in a large Midwestern US farm family that taught self-reliance as a religion.. When Kelli lost not one but two partners in a row to cancer, and then was the victim of an unfortunate exploding knee replacement incident, she was forced to start making different choices. And also there was a whole weird nun thing in the middle.
SECOND HELPING is part stand-up comedy, part sit-down tragedy with love and body fluids in the cracks in between.
SECOND HELPING is a show, and a workshop, and a movement.
I mean, we’re trying to make it a movement.
Second Helping is produced by brilliant Beth Lapides (the godmother of alt comedy-the LA Times)
There are more resources and practical guides to learning how to accept help included on Kelli’s blog right here.
ABOUT BOOKING SECOND HELPING AT NURSING SCHOOLS, COLLEGES, AND CONFERENCES
SECOND HELPING is not just hilarious entertainment for colleges, communities of faith and healthcare providers, it’s also a great conversation starter about mutual aid, care, ableism and disability. If you’re booking Second Helping for your conference or organization, rvery performance of SECOND HELPING comes with an additional workshop about these issues. Because Kelli likes to be helpful. Of course.
HELP: I NEED SOMEBODY: THE ART OF ASKING FOR (AND ACCEPTING) HELP [WORKSHOP]
Part of being a compassionate and social justice-minded human in the world is seeing needs and wanting to immediately assist where we can. But being in the habit of meeting others ‘ needs doesn’t always mean we are able to accept help. In this workshop we’ll consider how our help-receiving skills compare with our help-giving skills, discuss why it’s just as important to receive as to give, learn hands on skills for becoming more comfortable with asking for help, and consider what mutual aid has to do with it all.
WHEN A CASSEROLE IS NOT ENOUGH: BUILDING TEAMS OF CARE [WORKSHOP]
Family caregiving is in an unprecedented crisis and caregiving by groups, rather than by individuals is at least part of the answer. In this weworkshop–which draws on Kelli’s more than ten years as a community health nurse, her experiences during the early years of the AIDS crisis as well as her lived experience as the primary caregiver of two partners who died of cancer– participants will discuss ways to develop and leverage community mutual aid, build caregiving teams and learn how to communicate about their teams with the mainstream healthcare system.
TEAM CAREGIVING: BUT WHO WILL BE ON MY TEAM [WORKSHOP]
In this workshop–created as a direct result of questions asked during other team caregiving workshops– we’ll talk about the nitty-gritty of building a sustainable positive caregiving team, with a special emphasis on troubleshooting for folks who are geographically, socially or otherwise isolated.
