Mad Hearts: The Arts and Mental Health - Openness: Spaces of Liberation
When: Friday, June 20, 2025, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Where: ArtsOne, Mile End
This one-day event explores productive, radical, contemporary encounters between the arts and mental health.
Openness: Spaces of Liberation in Mental Health
20 June 2025 | In-person
This one-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.
Highlights include:
- Keynote from Tony Cealy - https://tonycealy.com
- International Panel: Mad Experiments: ‘Putting Madness at the centre of the scene’ on with members of the Mental Health and Social Justice Network from London and Trieste (Italy)
- Participatory workshops in theatre, dance, music and creative writing
We 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.
Thanks to our funders: The QM Centre for Creative Collaboration, the Wolfson Institute of Population Health and the School of the Arts at Queen Mary
The event is organised by the MSc Creative Arts and Mental Health
Image: by Rulan Li
For more information please contact: m.turri@qmul.ac.uk