Organised by Queen Mary University of London
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.
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Photo: Drag Syndrome
Queering Boundaries
This year's theme, Queering Boundaries, is 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
Onsite day - 9 June
- Drag Syndrome: Ugly Resistance, Beautiful Persistence
- Workshop with award-winning playwright Mojisola Adebayo
- Performances by MSc Creative Arts and Mental Health students from their Text, Self and Performance Module.
- Hölderlin’s Poltergeists: Drama Workshop with Simon Thomas
Online day - 10 June
Keynote speakers:
- Rachel Mars - Performer, Writer - 'But how am I supposed to feel? Ambivalence, humour and the opportunity of the grey zone in making performance'.
- Frances Williams from Queercircle
Parallel panels including:
- Queerness and Mental Health / Neuroqueerness
- Arts-Based Social Prescribing
- Gender Queerness
- Discussions and creative reflections.
- mentalhealth