Join the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival for a one-day workshop on Mon 17 March 2025 where they’ll share good practice techniques for making audience-facing creative work about mental health.
The workshop at Civic House in Glasgow will cover telling your own story, telling other people’s stories including how to work with vulnerable participants, and producing skills including learning about access riders, contracts, safeguarding, wellbeing practitioners, and more. Lunch is included in the flexible, ‘pay what you can’ ticket price.
Performing Anxiety (www.mhfestival.com/performinganxiety) is the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival’s new resource for people who want to make audience-facing or participatory arts projects about mental health. This workshop will feature sessions led by three experts who contributed to the resource – writer and theatre-maker Ross Mackay (formerly of Tortoise in a Nutshell), playwright, screenwriter and producer Mariem Omari (of Bijli Productions) and producer Stephanie Katie Hunter (artistic director of Scissor Kick).
Workshop Timetable
10.30am
Welcome / Tea and coffee
11am-12pm Telling My Story
Exploring autobiographical work about mental health, with Ross Mackay
12pm-1pm Other People’s Stories
Exploring participatory work about mental health, with Mariem Omari
1pm-2pm Lunch
2pm-3pm Safe Spaces
Producing work about mental health, with Stephanie Katie Hunter
Book tickets via Citizen Ticket at https://www.citizenticket.com/events/scottish-mental-health-arts-festival/performing-anxiety-a-one-day-lsquo-good-practice-rsquo-workshop-in-making-creative-projects-about-mental-health/
For further information, please contact aeaton-lewis@mentalhealth.org.uk (Andrew Eaton-Lewis) or visit https://www.citizenticket.com/events/scottish-mental-health-arts-festival/performing-anxiety-a-one-day-lsquo-good-practice-rsquo-workshop-in-making-creative-projects-about-mental-health/.
