Mad Hearts 2024: The Arts and Mental Health
June 6 @ 9:00 am - June 7 @ 5:00 pm
£5 – £75
About the event
You are invited to join us for Mad Hearts 2024: The Arts and Mental Health, on 6-7 June at ArtsOne (QMUL Mile End Campus), for a collaborative conference with PsychArt exploring the theme of Outsider/Insider.
This event explores productive, radical, contemporary encounters between the arts and mental health, bringing together clinical, artistic and research perspectives that offer a re-interpretation of contemporary mental health science and practice, with a view of imagining a different future.
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Highlights include:
· Keynote (live and streamed) from James Leadbitter aka the vacuum cleaner
· 6th June: Live Screening of ‘The Possibility Of Colour’ by Pete Carruthers
· Live and streamed workshop-lecture from artist and activist Tam Martin-Fowles from Hope in the Heart
· Live in-person workshops with Playing ON Theatre Company; Alice Norfield (Mummifying objects); Ali Blatcher (poetry); Cara Verkerk (collage) and more
· Discussions and creative reflections
· Art competition – see website for further information
