'What Do You Stay Alive For?" is a showcase and resource hub advocating for suicide awareness. There are many external systemic forms of oppression that affect humanity's internal psyche. Since COVID and other local and national events, people have had a harder time pushing themselves to stay alive. By collaborating and having a roundtable discussion with artists writing about mental health and collaborating with organizations who are serving underserved community members in mental health access, Tender Table and the poet laureate program are creating a space to remind people the joy to stay alive.

Featuring poetry readings by:

Arisa White

Brooke Bolduc

Dylan Richmond

Maya Williams

Samaa Abdurraqib

Signature MiMi

Stacey Tran

Veronica Perez

Resource fair with:

Generational Noor

Gateway Community Services

The Yellow Tulip Project

Maine Access Points

Portland Yoga Collective

Community Change Inc.