Annual Event
Evening of Hope and Discovery
Crowne Plaza Boston-Woburn
Friday, September 22nd
7:00-9:00PM ET
Celebrate our 10th annual Evening of Hope and Discovery with Families for Depression Awareness board members, volunteers, supporters, and staff. This year's event will take place at the Crowne Plaza Boston-Woburn less than 15 miles outside of Boston. Reserve a table for you and your guests or buy individual tickets. Then, at the event, enjoy the delicious Italian buffet, amazing silent auction, and moving testimonials about the work we do with families. A cash bar will be available.
Interested in sponsoring this year's event? Email Valerie Cordero at valerie@familyaware.org.

Event Keynote Speaker: Suzy Becker
Suzy Becker is a New Yorker cartoonist, award-winning educator and entrepreneur, and the author/illustrator of eleven books for all ages. Her titles include the internationally bestselling, All I Need to Know I Learned From My Cat (over two million copies sold), and two memoirs, I Had Brain Surgery, What's Your Excuse? and One Good Egg.
Suzy works and teaches in the emerging field of graphic medicine: illustrated life narratives of caregiving, health, recovery, and illness. The process of making these narratives has documented physical and mental health/wellness benefits for patients, students, professional practitioners, and caregivers.
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IN-KIND SPONSORS
Amazon
Bancroft
Blick Art Materials
Boston Gay Men’s Chorus
Burtons Bar & Grill
Chakra Power Yoga Waltham
Champagne & Confetti: Celebrations By Catalina
Crowne Plaza Boston-Woburn
Dave & Buster’s
Jewels with a Purpose, Inc.
Mad Kitty Media
Occasional Brass
Quickstep Communications
Pure Barre Burlington
Pure Barre Assembly Row
Slumberkins
Suzy Becker
The Fox Den
The Smoke Shop BBQ
Toppan Merrill
Wegmans