The Red and Black

Issue date: 4/17/08 Section: Out & About

Media Credit: COURTESY KYLE KUYKENDALL Hope for Agoldensummer is the featured act at Nuçi's Space's concert to benefit the Suicide and Depression Awareness Week. The show is Friday night at Nuçi's Space at 8:30. [Click to enlarge]

Depression hurts, but Nuci's Space is letting students know it's not something they must suffer alone.

Nuci's Space, the local nonprofit music and health help center, is hosting a MovieFest tonight at Cine; and an in-house fundraising concert as part of its third annual Depression and Suicide Awareness Week.

A few short student-made films centered on the theme "The Many Faces of Depression," will screen in the CineLab tonight. The showing will feature videos submitted by students both for last year's MovieFest and the current one, but all films "acknowledge depression and suicide," said Caitlin Campbell, a Nuci's Space intern and senior telecommunications major from Dunwoody. There also will be refreshments and gifts for students who submitted their films.

"[Depression] is a disease, and because a lot of students don't realize that fact, they don't want to go get help because they don't know it's a disease," Campbell said. "We're just trying to get the word out that Nuçi's Space is here to help."

The Depression and Suicide Awareness Week is a series of events designed to foster discussion about the effects of suicide and depression, said Jaimie Spetseris, a senior public relations major from Atlanta and a Nuçi's Space intern.

"Our goal is to raise awareness on campus that people do suffer from depression, all kinds of people ... I think more people are suffering from depression than most people are aware of," she said. "It's not an issue or disorder that should be frowned upon."

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