PostSecret "Live" Spring 2012

2012-02-04T23:00:00.027-05:00

PostSecret "Live” is a multi-media presentation by Frank Warren, founder of PostSecret. See the postcards that were banned from the books. Hear the inspiring and funny stories behind the secrets. See the App secret that got the biggest response. Share your secret at the microphone.

Meet Frank afterward during the book signing. Books will be available for purchase including the #1 New York Times Best Seller, PostSecret Confessions on Life Death and God.

~~Keene State College~~ (Sold-Out)
Keene, NH
2-1-12
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~~Fairfield University~~ (Sold-Out)
Fairfield, CT
2-2-12
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University of North Carolina- Pembroke
Pembroke, NC
2-7-12
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Washington State University (This event was relocated to Beasley Coliseum)
Pullman, WA
2-12-12
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Gonzaga University
Spokane, WA
2-13-12
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~~University of Puget Sound~~ (Sold-Out)
Tacoma, WA
2-14-12
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Boise State University
Boise, ID
2-16-12
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Kennedy Center (Closed Event)
Washington, D.C.
2-19-12
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University of Massachusetts (New Event)
Boston, MA
2-23-12
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TED: Full Spectrum (Sold-Out)
Long Beach, CA
2-29-12
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University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN
3-7-12
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University of Western Ontario [Buy Tickets Online]
London, ON
3-8-12
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SXSW (South by Southwest)
Austin, TX
3-11-12
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Radford University
Radford, VA
3-14-12
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University of Memphis
Memphis, TN
3-26-12
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Gallo Center for the Arts [Buy Tickets Online]
Modesto, CA
4-1-12
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University of Rhode Island
Kingston, RI
4-10-12
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The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
Galloway, NJ
4-11-12
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University of Arkansas-Fayetteville
Fayetteville, AR
4-16-12
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Cleveland State University
Cleveland, OH
4-18-12
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St. Norbert College
De Pere, WI
4-19-12
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University of Denver
Denver, CO
4-20-12
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PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail
in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard.
PostSecret, 13345 Copper Ridge Road, Germantown, MD 20874, USA

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I sometimes pull up my brother's apartment complex on Google Earth so I can see where he ended his life. Comforting but painful too.

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...me too! Thank you for helping me feel less alone as yet another lonely Valentine's Day approaches.

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I made this Valentine for you.

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Go alone! I did and ended up bonding with all people waiting in line and sitting next to me. Post Secret truly is a community.

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I wish I had gone to the PostSecret event at my school alone.

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Dear Frank,

I attended your lecture a while back in Golden, CO and wanted to give you a big fat THANK YOU!! I shared my secret about my suicide attempts which forced me to be honest with myself. Throughout the following weeks this realization has so inspired me that I have decided to volunteer for a teen suicide prevention organization here in Denver.

You have changed my life and as a suicide survivor I want to help change the lives of others who are in the same situation I had been. Thank you again and a million times!

P.S. Thanks also for signing my journal and for the book ^_^

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Hey Frank,

The PostSecret Event I went to, when you were in Iowa, was the first event in my entire life that I ever attended alone. I've always been afraid to go places: restaurants, movies, the ice cream stand, by myself because I felt that people would think that I was pathetic. I was sad. I wanted to go and a part of me knew that I wouldn't go because I would be alone.

As the date of the event grew closer I became upset with myself. I wanted to go. I needed to go. PostSecret has been a part of my life for years, and I had regretted miss the last opportunity I had to go to your event because of work, or so I told myself. I would hate myself for missing again. So the day before the event I called up the box-office selling the tickets and begged them to tell me if they had any tickets left. I was lucky, they did, and I went.

That night I told you about my boss, and how she made me feel like I did when I was suicidal. How I felt myself slipping back into that depression, and I was scared because I was alone, 1200 miles away from home. That night I stood up, by myself, in a room of strangers, and told my secret. It has been one of the most defining moments of my life and I am so grateful that I went by myself. I wouldn't have told my secret if I had brought a friend.

Tell the person who sent this secret that they won't be truly alone at the event. For the first time, I was in a room surrounded by people, and I didn't feel alone. I've been to events that held 5,000 to 50, 000 people, and was surrounded by friends and family, and I felt more alone than I ever did. But that night, sitting in that seat and standing at that mic, looking up at you on the stage as you shared the world's secrets with us, I knew I wasn't alone. It is one of the most cherished memories I have.

Thank you for that, and I hope your secret-bearer goes. He/she won't regret it.

-Faith