connecticut

News 12’s Gwen Edwards is joined by Adriana Taft to discuss a fashion show fundraiser coming to Bridgeport July 31.

Connecticut

CT | Weather

The latest forecast details from News 12 Connecticut

News 12 Connecticut Weather Report

Weather

Article 300607 Thumbnail

Our Lives: Fashion show fundraiser for Bridgeport mental health services

ourlives724

Come on, Welcome to our lives, I'm Gwen Edwards, a very fashionable fundraiser, is coming up in Bridgeport's on july the 31st Ariana Taff joins me now. We want to thank you so much for being a guest here on our lives. Of course, thank you for having me. Let's talk about this fashion show. It is to benefit mental health services in the city of Bridgeport. Yes, we are very aware especially this generation how a lot of people are suffering from a lot of mental health issues, and we just want to bring more awareness to it and just understand that, you know, everybody's going through something and that's okay and we just want to really just make more awareness of everything that's going on. Yes, tell us the inspiration for this fashion show. What is the theme? Each segment is kind of gonna be based on different mental health issues and in the different medications that kind of go into uh those mental health issues and just kind of showing the effects that it has on people and kind of the effects of how they are without it. And just to make you more aware, it's really just a draw awareness. You're working with chastity Kennedy and bringing this to the public, talk about the vision that the two of you had in organizing this fashion show. I love everything about her visions and I just kind of helped put all those pieces together. Um basically she really wants to just allow everyone to be creative in their own special way, so we'll have, dancers, will have spoken word um and I just kind of helped guide them to make that vision come to life. She's so inclusive to everyone and I love that about her. So it's different age groups, different sexual preferences. It's just anyone, literally, no one is excluded at all. We welcome all tell us when it is and where it is and how can you get tickets? So it's at the creative venue in Bridgeport is july 31st. We are having a silent auction from 2 30 to 4 30 then the show is starting for 30 promptly. Um you can either get tickets via her email is going to be seeing these productions at gmail dot com or you can also buy tickets at the door. It's such a worthy cause so many people, as you say, are going through something. Exactly, and you know, we just want to make everyone know that it's okay to go through something. We're all in this together and we're just all gonna support and uplift each other, Ariana. We thank you so much for your time, of course, and thank you for having me and we want to thank you for watching our lives where we bring you information and interviews that you will see nowhere else for our lives. I'm Gwen Edwards

https://vod.chdrstatic.com/transcode/72f50c90-f77b-4424-82d4-bbb1d74083c1/72f50c90-f77b-4424-82d4-bbb1d74083c1.transcribe