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Be Part of the Change
Do you have experience of severe, complex and/or enduring mental health illnesses? Would you like to help develop research that will help to create real change in Scotland? The Mental Health Foundation, See Me, and Glasgow Caledonian University are undertaking a ground-breaking research project to understand how people living with severe and enduring mental health illnesses experience stigma and discrimination. We will be running a discussion group in early May with people who have faced stigma and discrimination because of the mental illnesses they live with. The purpose of the discussion group is to help shape research materials and gather your views on themes that should be explored with participants in focus group and one-to-one discussions that will best help us to understand the stigma and discrimination they have experienced. An online discussion group will be scheduled in early May and will take between 60 and 90 minutes. It will be facilitated by experienced researchers who are working on the study and who will integrate your comments and suggestions into the focus group and interview guides used in this research. For further information please see the full flyer attached in this link. If you would like to take part and help create change and reduce mental health stigma and discrimination in Scotland, please contact mmcbride@mentalhealth.org.uk
The Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival is back!
‘Gathering’, the opening event for the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival 2022, will take place at the Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) in Glasgow on Wednesday 4th May! The day’s headline event is Gathering on Stage, an hour of live performances and film screenings in the CCA Theatre at 5pm. You can book your place here.
You can also join us for:
Gathering on Film
2pm – 3.45pm
Gather together to watch a selection of warm and uplifting films on the big screen on our opening day. We showcase community-based projects which have inspired hope during the pandemic, alongside shorts by local and international filmmakers expressing the importance of connection for our wellbeing. Book your place here
Mental Health Arts Network: How Do We Gather?
4pm – 5pm What should lockdown teach us about how we gather? Join us for an insightful conversation about how prejudice, illness, anxiety and other factors impact on our ability to gather, and what we should do about it. The discussion will bring together three recipients of this year’s SMHAF Gather artist commission – Jo Chukualim, Drew Taylor-Wilson and Bibo & Brian Keeley. Book your place here.
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