This Friday! Join us for the launch of Migrate Journey, a new public sculpture and programme of events exploring untold stories of migration to East London. A collaboration between @rehanwjamil, @shahedsaleem_& @MCP_95
Full programme: https://t.co/7DrJ4S5mSq
There is no such thing as “a sick note culture.” There is a record high NHS waiting list, crippling housing costs, widespread food poverty, stagnant wages and inadequate benefit rates, a broken social care system, dire mental health services, and closed Sure Start centres.
“The brain might need medication, therapy and a healthy diet, but the mind is different, the mind needs soothing”
Artist James Leadbitter, aka The Vacuum Cleaner, visited a mental health ward during the pandemic, offering a creative outlet
https://t.co/gBeSg5usOU
Listen to this @BBCAccessAll (whole program great) but especially from 23 mins James & two of the young artists on “For They Let In The Light” @ChisenhaleGal. Incredible people sharing unique insight into their experience and artistic journey. Blown away by it.
"I'm sitting in a circle with a group of people at an event, listening to two participants cathartically lay into the world, joyously telling all and sundry to fuck off..."
Read @georgevasey's new essay on art, mental health & "For They Let In The Light": https://t.co/JZ1Ybx59UV
“Totally unexpected brilliant beauty" "The films on their own are powerful; the presence of the young artists so prepared to share made it extraordinary and brave. Art of the first order.” -Audience Feedback to ‘For They Let In The Light’.
For more info: https://t.co/lNa0wcRmzx
🎉 🎉 🎉 We are thrilled to share that A Manifesto For 2.8 Million Minds has received high commendation in the 2022 Culture Health and Wellbeing Alliance's Collective Power Award! Read more about the project here: https://t.co/6fArCjk8sO
🌟We are excited to announce the opening of 'For They Let In The Light', a new live commission by the vacuum cleaner and Collaborators. Follow the link to book tickets: https://t.co/qYsxPQxqyr
Last few tickets for a new live commission, 'For They Let In The Light' at Chisenhale Gallery this evening, by @vacuumcleaner and collaborators. Not to be missed: https://t.co/QPtn4r8baQ
Come and see this timely and inspiring new collaborative work @ChisenhaleGal by @vacuumcleaner & co in late November - more info and tickets below 👇
Chisenhale Gallery presents 'For They Let In The Light', a major new live commission by @vacuumcleaner, developed with a group of young artists he met in Spring 2021 at the Coborn Centre for Adolescent Mental Health. More info and tickets here: https://t.co/mLdoPd49LP
Next Thursday evening, 6 October, join us for a group crit with #ChisenhaleAlumni Imran Perretta. Tickets are free, and all welcome - more info here: https://t.co/880NKIINEM
HELP I’m teaching a workshop on building your own computer for ppl without computer/internet access in Tower Hamlets. We need (working) desktop computers! Do you work in a uni/big company who might be replacing theirs? Get in touch, Help give someone who needs it a free 🖥
The past two years has hit young people with mental ill-health hard. A group of them came together to ask 'How can we use art to create change in mental health care?'
Their answer, a manifesto called 2.8 Million Minds, launched yesterday.
Read it here:
https://t.co/d3Fhb80qbO