BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.3.6//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:429@thcvs.org.uk DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20220610 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20220611 DTSTAMP:20220509T133937Z URL:https://thcvs.org.uk/events/mad-hearts-the-arts-and-mental-health/ SUMMARY:Mad Hearts: The Arts and Mental Health DESCRIPTION:Friday 10 June / In-person /Pay What You Can\nSaturday 11 June / Online / Free (Donations Welcome)\n\nThis two-day event explores product ive\, radical\, contemporary encounters between the arts and mental health \, bringing together clinical\, artistic and research perspectives that of fer a re-interpretation of contemporary mental health science and practice \, with a view of imagining a different future.\n\nThis year's theme is Ma sked/Unmasked – the wearing of physical masks to face the pandemic is a prompt to reflect on the metaphorical masks we wear to face the world\, ho w we put these on to protect us from an unforgiving social world at the pr ice of hiding the beauty of our differences. Interventions will examine  how the arts can help us see behind the masks and sustain a new vision for mental health.\n\nWe welcome service users\, mental health professionals\ , artists and researchers and any members of the general public interested in the way the arts can contribute to mental health.\n\nHighlights\n\nOns ite day - 10 June\n\n\n Theatre Temoin's work 'NHS Yarns' comes to Quee n Mary and will be followed by a discussion panel about the pandemic and i mpact on NHS and other key workers\n Performances and participatory creat ive and discussion workshops\n Exhibition of selected artistic work submi tted by conference participants (see here below for how to submit)\n\nBook Day 1\nOnline day - 11 June - Live Captioning Available\n\n\n Artist’s Keynote:"Birdsong from Inobservable Worlds" by acclaimed arts Dolly Sen\ n Maria Grazia Turri on a sketch for a Manifesto for the Arts and Mental Health\n Parallel panels including:\n\n Autistic unmasking and performin g Beingness\n Phakama on the language of resilience\n A theatre company unmasking the life and work of a forgotten mad artist from the Faroe Isla nds\n Masking and masculinity\n\n\n\nBook Day 2\nThanks to our funders:  Arts and Culture\, Centre for History of the Emotions\, Drama Department  and Wolfson Institute of Population Health\, Diversity and Inclusion a t Queen Mary.\n\nContribute\n\nMad Hearts is inviting contributions on the theme of Masked/Unmasked - whether thinking of physical masks and the pan demic\, or the metaphorical masks we wear to face the world\, the masks th at we put on or take off in different circumstances. How do we protect our selves from others\, and how do we draw closer to others? This may take in themes of isolation\, connection\, compassion and flourishing.\n\nYou are invited to submit a piece of creative work plus a 300 word reflection*\n\ nWorks and reflections that the conference conveners select as particularl y pertinent to the themes of the conference will be made available on a sh ared online platform accessible to all conference delegates. Some will als o be selected for a physical art display. Three will be nominated for a pr ize and invited to present at the end of the online conference Sat 11th Ju ne.\n\n* You may use any creative medium for your presentation\, for examp le: music\, dance\, monologue\, painting\, photography\, prose\, poetry\, sculpture. See https://sites.google.com/view/madhearts2021/home and www .outofourheads.net for examples.\nSubmit your work\nOrganisers: Maria Gr azia Turri\, Bridget Escolme\, Louise Younie\, Sumita Majumdar and Ru pert Dannreuther.\n\n\nThe event is organised by the MSc Creative Arts an d Mental Health\n\nImage: Breaking Free from the Chains of Expectations b y Natasha Alia Razman\n\n\n\n \;\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thcvs.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/ Screen-Shot-2022-05-09-at-14.34.37.png CATEGORIES:Arts and Culture,Events in Tower Hamlets,Health and Wellbeing Events in Tower Hamlets END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20220327T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR