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SMHAF Podcast
by Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival
Mental Health Arts is a year-round arts programme led by the Mental Health Foundation Scotland, built around the annual Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival (SMHAF). Established in 2007, the festival is one of the largest of its kind in the world and among Scotland's most diverse cultural events, covering everything from music, film and visual art to theatre, dance, and literature.
Episodes
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Invisible M*ther
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...
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Premonitory Urges
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...
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Flutter
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...
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Sit Still
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…
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Wax and Wane
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...
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Silent Men & Men Don't Talk: Duncan Cowles meets Clare Prenton
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...
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Performing Anxiety: Nye Russell Thompson interview
Performing Anxiety: Nye Russell Thompson interview by Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival
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Quiet Revolution
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…
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Hysterical!
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…
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Listen In On The Conversation A Creative Revolution In Mental Healthcare (Made By Headliner)
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...
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MHAN Gathering 2: safeguarding mental health while making art about mental health
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…
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Art-Making As Self-Expression - Jan-Bert
Art-Making As Self-Expression - Jan-Bert by Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival
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Circus Skills - Isabel
Circus Skills - Isabel by Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival
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Clay - Anne
Clay - Anne by Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival
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Short - Ruth D
Short - Ruth D by Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival
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Reclaiming Our Heritage: The Importance of Funding Creativity for Mental Health
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...
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Reclaiming Our Heritage: How Stigmas Have Evolved Over Time
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.…
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Reclaiming Our Heritage: Mental Health Over the Generations
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...
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Reclaiming Our Heritage: The Impact of Art on Mental Health
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.…
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How Do We Talk About Suicide? A Mental Health Arts Network gathering.
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...
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Reclaiming Our Heritage: What is Innovation in Mental Health Arts Projects
Content Warning: Features discussion of suicidal ideation 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...
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Reclaiming Our Heritage: How Therapy Has Changed Over Time
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.…
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Brian
Brian by Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival
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Consumed by Isla Cowan
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...
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Our Voices by Nikki Kilburn
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...
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Mind Matters: Sasha Greene and Angela McCrimmon
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.
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Mind Matters: Well Happy Band and Michelle Connolly
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.
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Daniel
Daniel by Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival
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Anne
Anne by Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival
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Abi
Abi by Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival
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Alina
Alina by Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival
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Samantha
Samantha by Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival
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Jane
Jane by Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival
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Jeanette
Jeanette by Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival
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John McC
John McC by Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival
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John S
John S by Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival
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Keith
Keith by Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival
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Larry
Larry by Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival
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Mahmud
Mahmud by Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival
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Neil
Neil by Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival
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Rachel
Rachel by Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival
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Richard
Richard by Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival
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Ruth
Ruth by Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival
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Ruth D
Ruth D by Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival
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Sheena
Sheena by Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival
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Syma
Syma by Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival
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Andrew
Andrew by Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival
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Carole
Carole by Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival
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Chik
Chik by Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival
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Chris B
Chris B by Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Mental Health Arts is a year-round arts programme led by the Mental Health Foundation Scotland, built around the annual Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival (SMHAF). Established in 2007, the festival is one of the largest of its kind in the world and among Scotland's most diverse cultural events, covering everything from music, film and visual art to theatre, dance, and literature.
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Mental Health Arts is a year-round arts programme led by the Mental Health Foundation Scotland, built around the annual Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival (SMHAF). Established in 2007, the festival is one of the largest of its kind in the world and among Scotland's most diverse cultural events,...
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SMHAF Podcast is created and hosted by Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival.
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