MadHearts 2023 - A two-day Arts and Mental Health event

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From the Press Release:

· 09 June 2023 | In-person | Pay What You Can

· 10 June 2023 | Online | Free (Donations Welcome)

Full information & booking: bit.ly/madhearts

"This two-day 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.

This year's theme is Queering Boundaries – a prompt to reflect on how boundaries define identities and fields of enquiry within mental health. Boundaries as lines of division can inhibit creative re-imagining of identities and new horizons for knowledge and practice. Arts practices are often messy ground where boundaries become fuzzy and new meanings and possibilities are given space to emerge.

Highlights include:

· Keynote from Rachel Mars

· Live in-person performances and workshops with Mojisola Adebayo and Daniel Vais (Drag Syndrome)

· Panels on Genders and Mental Health, Neuroqueerness, Social Prescribing and the Arts in East London

· Discussions and creative reflections

We welcome people with lived experience, survivors, mental health professionals, artists and researchers and any members of the general public interested in the way the arts can contribute to mental health."

Thanks to our funders: Arts and Culture, Drama Department, Wolfson Institute of Population Health and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at Queen Mary

The event is organised by the MSc Creative Arts and Mental Health

Image: Anouk Hirschbuhl

For more information please Contact: m.turri@qmul.ac.uk