Events
Find out more about events from VOX Scotland and partners.The Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival is back!
‘Gathering’ is the opening event for the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival 2022. You’re invited to join us at Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) on Wednesday 4th May.
The day’s headline event is Gathering on Stage. This hour of live performances and film screenings in the CCA Theatre at 5pm will feature:
- Live music by Djana Gabrielle, singer-songwriter.
- Live music by 2 Stoned Birds, spoken word and music from Dundee.
- Live performance by Skye Loneragan, creator of Though This Be Madness.
- Film premiere by Catherine Grosvenor (recipient of 2022 SMHAF Gather artist commission)
- Film premiere by Bibo & Brian Keeley.
- Plus a special music premiere to be announced soon…
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.
Discussion on Psychological Therapies – Lived Experience
Monday 9th May 10.00-11.30 (Zoom)
Tuesday 10th May 10.00-11.30 (Zoom)
VOX Scotland and The Alliance are facilitating a discussion on Psychological Therapies to support the Scottish Government in their commitment to developing National Quality Standards for Psychological Services and Psychological Therapies.
We are bringing together individuals with lived experience of accessing Psychological Therapies and carers of people with lived experience, in order to identify what good quality care and treatment looks like.
This event is aimed at people with lived experience of accessing Psychological Therapies and carers of people with lived experience.
Psychological Therapies are talking therapies which can help with common mental health problems like stress, anxiety and depression. These are delivered by trained staff one-to-one, online or in groups.
If you have experience of accessing Psychological Therapies, we would be delighted if you could join us to share your views. We will explore a number of areas of discussion including ensuring accessing to high quality care, involving carers in decision making and experiences with staff.
You can attend one of two virtual focus groups:
Monday 9th May 10.00-11.30
Tuesday 10th May 10.00-11.30
To register and indicate any accessibility requirements email membership@alliance-scotland.org.uk
Please include the date of the session you will be attending.
Please note: Zoom will be used for this event. The event is not designed to elicit personal information from participants, however, should you register to attend you must be aware that Zoom.us transfers personal data to the USA and that any personal data you choose to share will be transferred to a country that does not provide adequate protection and that no adequate safeguards aimed at providing protection for the data are being implemented.