Brain Storms: Creativity and Mental Health

Event and Ticketing Details

Dates & Times

Thursday 06 October
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Location

The Capitol

113 Swanston Street Melbourne Victoria 3000

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Event Notes

Please note: Meg Mason will no longer be appearing at this event. Honor Eastly will now appear via video link.

About

Cultural depictions of mental health can fail to grasp the complexities of its felt experience. Writer and podcaster Honor Eastly, novelist Sally Hepworth and photographer Daniel Regan have used their art to explore this issue that is at once ordinary and obscure. Whether implicitly or explicitly, their recent work engages with the reality of complex mental health experiences. With host Stéphanie Kabanyana Kanyandekwe, the panel will discuss the mechanics of representing the lived experience of mental health challenges and creating depictions that are authentic and relatable, yet free from stereotype or reduction. This will be an expansive discussion about the ways in which art can be used to explore and better understand the nuances of mental health. Illustration by Megan Herbert. Presented in partnership with RMIT Culture and UNSW as part of The Big Anxiety Please note: Honor Eastly will now appear via video link.  

The Big Anxiety

The Big Anxiety festival is the largest mental health and arts festival in the world, and promotes mental health and wellbeing through exciting arts projects that combine science and creativity. The 2022 festival will be held in October in Melbourne.