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Insider // Outsider : PsychArt x Madhearts 2024

When: Thursday, June 6, 2024 - Friday, June 7, 2024, 6:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Where: Various venues at QMUL including BLOC, Mile End

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6 June: 'The Possibility Of Colour' play screening 

7 June: Conference Day

This June, join PsychArt and Mad Hearts for a collaborative conference exploring the theme of Outsider/Insider. Together we will reflect on the shifts in status and roles that characterise mental health care.

Hospitals represent places of boundaries over which people are turned into rigid roles, nurses and doctors on the one side, and patients on the other. They can be experienced as cold, inflexible or containing and nurturing - and all of those things.

We invite you to a space to explore the possibilities of care. Where boundaries are softened and understanding is fostered through presentations, discussions and creative workshops.

Come to consider, re-frame and discuss - whatever this opposition might mean, and wherever we choose to place ourselves: outsiders, insiders, both & in between.

Note: you do not have to be an academic, clinician or student to join us! (but you can be). Anyone with an interest in arts and mental health is welcome to come along. Please let us know about any access requirements.

Programme

All Events at Arts One, QMUL Mile End Campus

6 June : 6-9pm

PsychArt x Mad Hearts - Play Screening

‘The Possibility Of Colour’ by Pete Carruthers

The Possibility of Colour | tree fish productions

The Possibility of Colour is an exciting new play written by Pete Carruthers, with input at every stage from mental health professionals, academics, student practitioners, and people with lived experience of the themes explored in the piece.

The play explores themes around mental health, voice hearing, synaesthesia, neurodiversity,

forced treatment, the use of Artificial Intelligence in healthcare and much much more.

7th June: 9am-5pm

PsychArt x Mad Hearts - The Conference

A day of workshops, talks and panel discussions

Keynote:

James Leadbetter aka the Vaccum cleaner - about the vacuum cleaner - artist and activist

Workshop Highlights:

Playing ON Theatre Company - Drama workshop

ALICE NORFIELD - Mumifying objects workshop

Tam Martin Fowles - Hope in the Heart CIC - Home

Ali Blatcher - Poetry workshop

Cara Verkerk - Collage workshop

Workshops will run before and after lunch with each attendee participating in one of 4 workshops or attending a talk running in parallel in the morning and afternoon

At the end of the day we will have a panel discussion exploring our theme of how crossing the boundary of the hospital impacts us to adopt various roles as Insiders & Outsiders to ourselves and others

Further speakers and panel members TBC

Locally sourced lunch and refreshments provided

More details to follow soon.

We would like to thank East London Foundation Trust (ELFT)and at Queen Mary: The Centre for Arts, Culture and Creative Collaboration, the Wolfson Institute and the School of English and Drama for their sponsorship and support

If you want to attend the event and are unable to afford a ticket please get in contact with us via our email to discuss.

Email contact: psychart2024@gmail.com

PsychArt competition

Join the vanguard at the crossroads of mental health and creativity with our annual PsychArt Competition. This year's theme, "Healing Outside the Box," calls for artworks that envision the future of mental wellness, spotlighting unconventional treatments and emerging therapies. We invite doctors, patients, and health professionals alike to contribute pieces—from paintings to sculptures, photographs to mixed media—that redefine the healing journey.

Unleash your creativity and share your story of innovative healing. Be part of a community that's reimagining the landscape of mental health through the power of art. Your piece could be the next beacon of hope and progress.

Although we don't want to limit people's vision for their work, size and feasibility of exhibiting must be considered. Please contact us if unsure and we will do our best to cater for every submission.

Email psychart2024@gmail.com to discuss the space you might require

See PsychART - Home Page for previous entries / winners

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