I migliori Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival podcast (2024)

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Invisible M*ther 3:58

6d ago3:58

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Invisible M*ther is a collaborative piece by Rebecca Livesey-Wright and Indra Wilson, commissioned by the Mental Health Foundation for the 2024 Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival. The piece uses polyvocal writing techniques to to visibilise hidden maternal narratives whilst affording an element of anonymity important for preserving a safe space f…

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Wax and Wane 2:00

7d ago2:00

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Wax and Wane is a vocal exploration of the shifting nature of tics within the body, transforming from physical motion to vocal expressions, varying in complexity and intensity throughout the artist's life. Tics, particularly those linked with Tourette's, often diminish or become less visible at certain times of day or during different life stages. …

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Sit Still 2:52

7d ago2:52

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Sit Still is a choral composition for four voices that delves into society's assumption that stillness comes naturally. It challenges the notion that movement—such as fidgeting or wriggling—is a sign of disengagement, immaturity, or misbehavior. The work draws on the artist’s reflections on her own self-criticism for struggling to achieve stillness…

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Flutter 3:45

7d ago3:45

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Flutter explores the constant interruption of Tourette’s to everyday life, through small sounds as well as the shame which can be experienced when experiencing tics.A collection of erratic, arhythmic voclisations are counterbalanced by soothing lullaby-esque humming, exploring both shame and empathy. Fragments of spoken word explore the complexitie…

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Premonitory Urges 2:50

7d ago2:50

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Premonitory Urges is a sonic exploration of the sensation experienced by Tourette’s sufferers which is an overwhelming sensation to perform a tic, an experience similar to the urge to blink. This work uses sound and voice to express this buildup and release. It also uses sine and saw waves to act as a grounding solace providing a drone underneath t…

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Silent Men & Men Don't Talk: Duncan Cowles meets Clare Prenton 20:22

23d ago20:22

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Two of the big events at the 2024 Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival are Men Don’t Talk, a play written by Clare Prenton which tours Scotland from 18 November, and Silent Men, a documentary by film-maker Duncan Cowles which is screening as part of our Film Awards programme at the CCA in Glasgow before touring to cinemas across Scotland. Both set …

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Performing Anxiety: Nye Russell Thompson interview 44:30

1M ago44:30

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Performing Anxiety: Nye Russell Thompson interview by Scottish Mental Health Arts FestivalDi Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival

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Quiet Revolution 3:38

11M ago3:38

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Reflecting light and stillness, and the process of creativity and the essential part this can play in all of our wellbeing. Some Revolutions are ongoing, peaceful, and very quiet.This track is by Talking Heads volunteer Paul Duncan, composed in response to the exhibition Photography Revolution by Dundee-based mental health charity Wellbeing Works. …

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Hysterical! 24:46

11M ago24:46

24:46

Listen to this podcast by Talking Heads volunteer Kirsty Ann-Watters, featuring an interview with koi collective members Sally MacAlister, Grace Baker, Zara Louise Kennedy, and Evie Mortimer about their new play Hysterical!. Commissioned by Live Borders for the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival, Hysterical! is a free fall through a categorically…

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Listen In On The Conversation A Creative Revolution In Mental Healthcare (Made By Headliner) 16:46

1y ago16:46

16:46

As part of the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival, the University of Glasgow hosted Rebirth and Revolution: the Life and Legacy of Mary Barnes to mark the artist and mental health campaigner’s centenary year.At the launch of the exhibition, a panel of experts gave a series of talks to contextualise her journey in art and recovery, from its beginn…

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MHAN Gathering 2: safeguarding mental health while making art about mental health 1:07:30

2y ago1:07:30

1:07:30

The past few years have seen a huge increase in the number of artistic projects, from theatre and film to comedy, that explicitly address mental health. Often these projects involve the artists sharing their own traumatic experiences.In our second Mental Health Arts Network gathering, recorded in March 2022, we explore how we use the arts to explor…

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Short - Ruth D 5:22

2y ago5:22

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Short - Ruth D by Scottish Mental Health Arts FestivalDi Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival

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Clay - Anne 3:29

2y ago3:29

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Clay - Anne by Scottish Mental Health Arts FestivalDi Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival

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Circus Skills - Isabel 1:15

2y ago1:15

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Circus Skills - Isabel by Scottish Mental Health Arts FestivalDi Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival

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Art-Making As Self-Expression - Jan-Bert 2:04

2y ago2:04

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Art-Making As Self-Expression - Jan-Bert by Scottish Mental Health Arts FestivalDi Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival

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Reclaiming Our Heritage: The Importance of Funding Creativity for Mental Health 45:38

2+ y ago45:38

45:38

Reclaiming Our Heritage is a Mental Health Foundation podcast inspired by its two-year oral history project supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. The project’s aim is to record and preserve the spoken testimonies of the mental health community between the 1950s and early 2000s.Each episode will explore themes that have come out of these …

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Reclaiming Our Heritage: How Stigmas Have Evolved Over Time 43:51

2+ y ago43:51

43:51

This is Reclaiming Our Heritage, a Mental Health Foundation podcast inspired by its two-year oral history project supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. The project’s aim is to record and preserve the spoken testimonies of the mental health community between the 1950s and early 2000s. The full interviews by these contributors and others a…

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Reclaiming Our Heritage: Mental Health Over the Generations 44:18

2+ y ago44:18

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Content Note: Features discussion of suicidal ideation.Reclaiming Our Heritage is a Mental Health Foundation podcast inspired by its two-year oral history project supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. The project’s aim is to record and preserve the spoken testimonies of the mental health community between the 1950s and early 2000s.Each e…

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Reclaiming Our Heritage: The Impact of Art on Mental Health 43:57

2+ y ago43:57

43:57

This is Reclaiming Our Heritage, a Mental Health Foundation podcast inspired by its two-year oral history project supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. The project’s aim is to record and preserve the spoken testimonies of the mental health community between the 1950s and early 2000s. The full interviews by these contributors and others a…

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How Do We Talk About Suicide? A Mental Health Arts Network gathering. 1:00:38

2+ y ago1:00:38

1:00:38

Art can be a powerful way of addressing the difficult subject of suicide, but how can it be done without sensationalising, stigmatising or triggering? This is a recording of a discussion event that took place on 23 February 2022, hosted by the Mental Health Foundation as part of its new Mental Health Art Network programme, supported by the Baring F…

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Reclaiming Our Heritage: What is Innovation in Mental Health Arts Projects 44:04

2+ y ago44:04

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Content Warning: Features discussion of suicidal ideationThis is Reclaiming Our Heritage, a Mental Health Foundation podcast inspired by its two-year oral history project supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. The project’s aim is to record and preserve the spoken testimonies of the mental health community between the 1950s and early 2000…

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Reclaiming Our Heritage: How Therapy Has Changed Over Time 44:59

2+ y ago44:59

44:59

This is Reclaiming Our Heritage, a Mental Health Foundation podcast inspired by its two-year oral history project supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. The project’s aim is to record and preserve the spoken testimonies of the mental health community between the 1950s and early 2000s. The full interviews by these contributors and others a…

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Brian 2:04:03

3y ago2:04:03

2:04:03

Di Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival

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Consumed by Isla Cowan 10:47

3y ago10:47

10:47

Consumed is a ten minute audio work that explores the disorienting experience of eating disorder and the way in which negative, dangerous thoughts around food and the body are normalised in the media and in our society. Blending satirical sketches, details of eating disorder symptoms and statistics, and semi-confessional spoken word fragments, this…

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Our Voices by Nikki Kilburn 10:32

3y ago10:32

10:32

Photographer and writer Nikki Kilburn is interested in exploring “how identity and lived experience creates complex realities”. Nikki was commissioned as part of the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival's My Normality project to create a collection of “five empowered portraits of women of colour with a lived experience of racialised trauma” accompa…

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Mind Matters: Sasha Greene and Angela McCrimmon 33:18

3+ y ago33:18

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In this episode of Mind Matters, Michael McEwan speaks to writers Sasha Greene, the Scottish author of Something Like Happy which explores mental health, and Angela McCrimmon, author of Can You Hear Me Now?: Finding My Voice in a System that Stole It, about writing and mental health.Di Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival

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Mind Matters: Well Happy Band and Michelle Connolly 42:55

3+ y ago42:55

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Michael McEwan speaks to Janine from the Well Happy Band and singer-songwriter Michelle Connolly in this podcast for the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival 2021.Di Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival