We’re excited to announce that this summer Mind Waves is running a series of free creative workshops around stigma. These workshops are open to people who live with both mental and physical health problems and are funded by the NHS Healthy Minds anti-stigma fund.
The sessions will be facilitated and led by Madeline Docherty and Marie Gallagher, and will focus on different areas of creative writing, podcasting and songwriting, and explore how to utilise these forms to tell stories about stigma. Some of these will be in person and some will be led on zoom. All of the in person events will take place in Glasgow and travel expenses can be covered by Mind Waves.
There’s no obligation to attend all of these workshops, but we would love it if you could make it to as many as possible, and also attend a launch event at the end of the programme where we can share the creative work produced in the sessions.
Dates for the sessions are below:
Monday 12th June: IN PERSON Creative writing: Welcome and an introduction to writing about stigma with Maddy
Monday 19th June: ONLINE Creative Writing: Life writing and stigma with Maddy
Monday 26th June: IN PERSON Songwriting with Marie
Monday 3rd July: IN PERSON Songwriting with Marie
BREAK FOR ONE WEEK
Monday 17th July: ONLINE Creative writing: Writing poetry about stigma with Maddy
Monday 24th: ONLINE Introduction to Podcasting with Marie
Monday 31st July: IN PERSON Podcast production with Marie
Monday 7th August: ONLINE Creative writing and reflection session: Creativity, mental health and stigma with Maddy
Celebration and launch event: to be confirmed closer to the time!
All of the sessions will be 12-2pm and all of the in person sessions will be hosted at The Dream Machine, 257 London Road, Glasgow.
Please do get in touch if you are interested in attending or you have any questions. You can email maddy@mindwavesnews.com
We hope to see you there!
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