Stand-up comedian and 97.3FM breakfast producer Chris Hague is set to MC the Road to Happiness Finale Party at Über nightclub on Friday November 26.
The event will celebrate the achievements of Brisbane’s Ivo Kornel who has spent the past eight months cycling around Australia to raise awareness of youth suicide and depression. (more…)
Hello to all you lovely Road to Happiness followers in Brisbane and surrounds! Just a quick update to the venue for the Finale Party – we’ve moved it upstairs to Uber cocktail bar and lounge – to accommodate more of you delightful people. Same address: 100 Boundary Street, West End. Same date: Friday November 26, from 5:30pm onwards. For tickets and all the details visit www.stickytickets.com.au/4355
Ivo has been busy over the past few weeks! Victoria welcomed him with open arms and he presented at several schools as part of Mental Health Week. He also appeared on Channel 9 News Victoria, WIN News Gippland, Joy FM, and in the Warragul Gazette. He’s now close to crossing the Victoria – New South Wales border on his way to Sydney. To read the article accompanying the WIN TV interview click here.
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When: Friday November 26, 5:30pm for 6:00pm start, concluding at 8:00pm
Where: Uber – cocktail bar and lounge – 100 Boundary Street, West End, Brisbane
Tickets: $15 pre-purchased or $20 on the door – includes drink on arrival and canapes throughout
Pre-purchase tickets at www.stickytickets.com.au/4355
Ivo was featured in The Sun-Herald and on Brisbanetimes.com.au this Sunday September 19, 2010, with a fantastic article about his journey. Thanks to journalist Ellen Lutton for her support of Ivo and Road to Happiness. Read the article for yourself here.
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When: Saturday October 17, 1:00pm – 4:00pm
Where: Teusley Park on the Broadwater, Cnr North Street and GC Hwy
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When: Friday October 15, 5:30pm for 6:00pm start, concluding at 8:00pm
Where: Skinny Dog Hotel, 155 High Street, Kew 3101
Tickets: $15 pre-purchased or $20 on the door – includes cocktail on arrival and canapes throughout
Pre-purchase tickets at www.stickytickets.com.au/4329
Ivo departed Adelaide this morning, fresh faced and full of energy after addressing the students of Adelaide High School. He pushes on to Melbourne, where he will host a fundraising benefit on Friday October 15 for Mental Health Week. All proceeds will go to Road to Happiness and Reach Out.
For all the details on the Melbourne event including ticketing, click here.
This message was received by a follower of Road to Happiness. He and his wife lost their teenage daughter to suicide last year. Our thanks to them for having the courage to share their story, and our love to them now and always.
August is a tough month out of twelve tough ones without our precious girl. It was Adele’s birthday and a day that highlights the joys and disappointments, the laughter and sadness, and just the huge void that this horrible thing suicide brings to the survivors.
Although it is always there, the special anniversaries like birthdays, Christmas, other special days, really start to hit home the week before. It comes in like a slow rolling sea mist and before you know it you are wrapped in a cold blanket of melancholy, one that is just so hard to rise above.
My darling wife and I love and hate these days, love for the memories and hate for the missing chair at the table of our lives.
We survive because we do not blame and feel that the loss of one source of great love should not be the loss of another, although it will never be the same again! How could it be?
We talk about her constantly because if we did not the loss would not not be a loss. It does upset some people, but that is a negative we are prepared to accept, it is not intended to offend but for the main part their children are here and we do not resent their discussion of them, we really embrace it.
The miscomprehension that surrounds this tragedy is still so prevalent. That is the reason why what you [Ivo] are doing is so important. Judi was with friends talking the other day and suicide came up. A view was passed that this was in some form, a weakness of some sort. Judi informed the person of our loss and that the reasons for suicide were wide and varied. She is a brave Mother who just misses her girl and has a lot of questions and not one of them is about weakness!
Anyway Ivo and friends of Ivo that is enough tears on the keyboard for one day.
Judi and I appreciate your effort to educate and your great passion to help this most terrible of life’s losses carry meaning.
Love from us both and our Angel in her absence
Michael and Judi
Ivo is pedalling hard and is set to arrive in Albany, WA this Thursday, August 12. He will be presenting to North Albany Senior High School on Friday, speaking with students about the journey thus far and helping them identify the warning signs of depression and suicide in themselves and others. See you soon, Albany! In the meantime, check out the latest photos from the Margaret River.
