Podcasts about scottish mental health arts

How do we make arts events more accessible to people living with social anxiety? Emma Jayne Park, associate artist for the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival, Mental Health Foundation arts lead Andrew Eaton-Lewis, 'unlikely adventurer' Paula McGuire, and Fiona Couper of National Autistic Society Scotland explore some ideas, from Harry Giles’ Chill Out Corner (pictured)to dance performances in people’s living rooms. Recorded at arts and mental health symposium The Dust of Everyday Life, CCA, Glasgow, 20 April 2017.

Can the arts and social justice campaigning happily co-exist? Jenny Edwards, chief executive of the Mental Health Foundation, discusses the issue with filmmaker Fran Higson, Halina Rifai of feminist collective TYCI, and Emma Jayne Park, associate artist for the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival. This was the closing session at arts and mental health symposium The Dust of Everyday Life, CCA, Glasgow, 20 April 2017.

Here is a simple song based on my feelings about the grief I have experienced. I hope that if you listen to it you will identify with it in some way, as nearly all of us have been through some kind of grief or loss in our lives. My intention is that if you are thinking of going to watch the Good Grief short films, this song will resonate with you in some way and encourage you to see them. I believe they will address this difficult and often taboo subject in a moving yet helpful manner. Good Grief is a programme of short films curated by filmmaker Theresa Moerman Ib, taking place at 7pm on Saturday 29 October at Edinburgh Printmakers as part of the Scottish Mental Health Arts & Film Festival. Follow this link for more information and booking details: https://www.mhfestival.com/events/962-good-grief

The Dust of Everyday Life is an annual conference exploring the arts, mental health and social justice, programmed by the Mental Health Foundation and See Me, Scotland's campaign to end mental health discrimination. This session from Dust 2016, at the CCA in Glasgow on Wednesday 20 April, was a discussion around One Thinks of It All as a Dream, a new play by Alan Bissett about the life of Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd. Ahead of the play's premiere at the tenth Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival. psychiatrist Dr Peter Byrne and writer/broadcaster John Cavanagh discuss some of the myths and misconceptions around Syd Barrett's life, while director Sacha Kyle and actors Andrew John Tait, George Brennan and Kieran Baker preview a short extract from the show.

The Dust of Everyday Life is an annual conference exploring the arts, mental health and social justice, programmed by the Mental Health Foundation and See Me, Scotland's campaign to end mental health discrimination. This session from Dust 2016, at the CCA in Glasgow on Wednesday 20 April, brought together speakers from three projects that use visual art to address mental health issues – Out of Sight Out of Mind, an annual exhibition by 100 artists with lived experience of mental illness, that takes place as part of the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival each October; The Clinic, a group exhibition showing as part of the 2016 Glasgow International festival of visual art that explored pseudo-sciences and the diverse ideas that surround them; and Broken Grey Wires, a contemporary art organisation exploring 'mental health, philosophy, psychology and everything in between'. The discussion was chaired by art critic Moira Jeffrey.

Join host Nicole Bell in conversation with film journalist, Eliza Jorn, for the final episode of the Expressions series of podcasts as part of the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival. This episode examines film more broadly as a platform for the representation of mental health with discussion on a selection of three films ('Mental', 'Rocks in My Pockets' and 'I Am Tom Moody') which featured as part of this year’s Festival. The films 'Mental' and 'Rocks in My Pockets' can be purchased online and the animated short 'I am Tom Moody' can be accessed on the director's Vimeo page, here: https://vimeo.com/45281618

In light of the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival’s screenings of Still Alice in two regions this year, host Nicole Bell speaks to Dr Maggie Ellis, a Fellow in Dementia Care at the University of St Andrews, for the second episode in her Expressions series of podcasts. The episode examines how dementia is represented in the film and the role of film as a platform for the representation of dementia.

On 26 March 2015 the Mental Health Foundation staged The Dust of Everyday Life, a conference at the CCA in Glasgow designed to ask challenging questions about the relationship between mental health and the arts. The findings will help to shape future editions of the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival, as we prepare for our tenth programme in 2016. The Dust of Everyday Life consisted of a series of panel discussions touching on film, TV, theatre, photography, and writing, as well as stigma, social justice and raising awareness. This is a recording of our session on photographry, A Picture in Mind: Saying a thousand words without promoting stigma, in which we asked: how does the visual image help us to communicate the reality of mental ill health without reinforcing stigma? How are people using new media and traditional methods to tell their stories and address stigma? And what’s the alternative to the ‘headclutcher’ image for news reportage? The panel consisted of Graham Miller (documentary photographer and founder of Photohonesty), Alex Hewitt (photographer and picture editor) and Alison Kerry (head of media, Mind). It was chaired by Chris O’Sullivan (policy and development manager, Mental Health Foundation).

On 26 March 2015 the Mental Health Foundation staged The Dust of Everyday Life, a conference at the CCA in Glasgow designed to ask challenging questions about the relationship between mental health and the arts. The findings will help to shape future editions of the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival, as we prepare for our tenth programme in 2016. The Dust of Everyday Life consisted of a series of panel discussions touching on film, TV, theatre, photography, and writing, as well as stigma, social justice and raising awareness. This is a recording of our session on the life and work of theatre-maker Adrian Howells, who died in 2014. The panel consisted of Deirdre Heddon (Professor of contemporary performance, University of Glasgow, Nic Green (theatre-maker) and Farida Mutawalli (BACP accredited counsellor). It was chaired by Joyce McMillan (theatre critic and cultural commentator, the Scotsman)

On 26 March 2015 the Mental Health Foundation staged The Dust of Everyday Life, a conference at the CCA in Glasgow designed to ask challenging questions about the relationship between mental health and the arts. The findings will help to shape future editions of the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival, as we prepare for our tenth programme in 2016. The Dust of Everyday Life consisted of a series of panel discussions touching on film, TV, theatre, photography, and writing, as well as stigma, social justice and raising awareness. This is a recording of our session on writing, which asked the question: from memoirs to creative fiction, what role can writing play in overcoming mental health issues? The panel consisted of Gail Porter (writer, TV presenter and health campaigner), Duglas T Stewart(singer-songwriter, BMX Bandits), Michael Rowe(associate professor, department of psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine)and John McCormack (Scottish Recovery Network). The panel was chaired by Mark Brown (editor of 1 in 4 magazine)

On 26 March 2015 the Mental Health Foundation staged The Dust of Everyday Life, a conference at the CCA in Glasgow designed to ask challenging questions about the relationship between mental health and the arts. The findings will help to shape future editions of the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival, as we prepare for our tenth programme in 2016. The Dust of Everyday Life consisted of a series of panel discussions touching on film, TV, theatre, photography, and writing, as well as stigma, social justice and raising awareness. For the closing session, rather than plan anything in advance we invited the audience to direct the discussion, with occasional responses from Lee Knifton (head of Mental Health Foundation Scotland), Judith Robertson (programme director, See Me) and Dr Peter Byrne (consultant psychiatrist and visiting professor at University of Strathclyde). The session was chaired by Andrew Eaton-Lewis from the Mental Health Foundation.

On 26 March 2015 the Mental Health Foundation staged The Dust of Everyday Life, a conference at the CCA in Glasgow designed to ask challenging questions about the relationship between mental health and the arts. The findings will help to shape future editions of the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival, as we prepare for our tenth programme in 2016. The Dust of Everyday Life consisted of a series of panel discussions touching on film, TV, theatre, photography, and writing, as well as stigma, social justice and raising awareness. This is a recording of our session on film, The Myth of the Mad Genius, which explored stigmatising depictions of creatives in cinema, and how filmmakers might move beyond the usual types and tropes. The panel consisted of Dr Peter Byrne (consultant psychiatrist and visiting professor at University of Strathclyde, Hannah McGill (critic and former director of Edinburgh International Film Festival)and Emma Davie(documentary filmmaker and programme director, Edinburgh College of Art). It was chaired by Richard Warden (filmmaker and film curator at Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival).

On 26 March 2015 the Mental Health Foundation staged The Dust of Everyday Life, a conference at the CCA in Glasgow designed to ask challenging questions about the relationship between mental health and the arts. The findings will help to shape future editions of the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival, as we prepare for our tenth programme in 2016. This is a recording of the opening session, in which we marked the tenth anniversary of the Glasgow Girls campaign by looking back at how a group of Drumchapel schoolgirls helped transform perceptions of a stigmatised community, and asking what other campaigners, and storytellers, can learn from them. The panel consisted of Amal Azzudin (one of the Glasgow Girls, now working for the Mental Health Foundation), Cora Bissett(creator of Glasgow Girls the musical), Brian Welsh (director of Glasgow Girls the TV drama) and Lindsay Hill (director of the Glasgow Girls documentary). The session was chaired by Joyce McMillan (theatre critic and cultural commentator, the Scotsman).

Selected audio from the Highland Festival Events Podcast 2010, looking back at the second year of the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival in the Highlands.