Monday, 16 August 2010

Session 1 - Campaign Beginnings...

Practitioner – Inspired Youth

Session Aims:
  • Explore the project plan
  • Begin to explore personal experience
  • Decide on themes
  • Decide on BLOG activity

The first task was to talk through the project schedule and to make some agreements as to how we could work best together as a group.   We then discussed each proposed activity and how we could use the artforms to help explore and express collective and individual experience.

The group were encouraged to think of a suitable name for their project, there were a number of good suggestions;

Who am I?
This is me!
I Get By...
I'm here to live
Keep Listening
See Me Hear Me
Amplified Sensitivity
The Demons of my Life
My Humanity
Warts & All
Perceptions of My Mind

The group finally settled on "mind me..." which they felt was personal and could be read in different ways such as a statement, a request, a demand or something else.

Mind Me...

Mind Me : Understanding and tackling the stigma around mental health in Stockton-on-Tees.

Working with Inspired Youth, this project aims to create a piece of multimedia which links narrative, poetry and photography to help participants explore and express their experience of stigma around mental health issues.

The piece will be presented as a digital multimedia installation and will be exhibited in Stockton for World Mental Health Day on the weekend of October 10th 2010.

The collection of work will highlight the experiences of adults in Stockton who use mental health services, it will be designed to be a local response to current national anti-stigma campaigns
(www.time-to-change.org.uk) and to complement these campaigns whilst telling more individual, local stories.

For more information please contact Inspired Youth : cj@inspiredyouth.org