Category: Bipolar Disorder

by Katherine Taylor January 5, 2018 0

Churchill Was a Painter Too: Mental Health and the Arts in New York City

Originally posted on Art Thou Well:
For now, I’m in New York for part of my Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship. I’m exploring…

by Katherine Taylor November 30, 2017 2

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Churchill Was a Painter Too: Mental Health and the Arts in New York City

For now, I’m in New York for part of my Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship. I’m exploring the role of theContinue Reading

by Katherine Taylor May 26, 2017 1

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‘Culture Club’ “Diagnosis Free Zone” in Jyvaskyla

On May 23rd, Following Baby Dance Hour in a residential home, I visited the innovative ‘Trombi’, (Culture Club), located under trees aroundContinue Reading

by Katherine Taylor April 25, 2017 8

Bipolar Disorder Churchill Fellowships

What is a Churchill Travelling Fellowship and what does it have to do with bipolar disorder?

The Churchill Trust is about enabling people who want to make things happen, all you need is a vision. AtContinue Reading

front page of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority Creative Care Kit

Creative Care Kits, a number of Greater Manchester organisations led by GMCA worked together to create and distribute 22,000 Kit to young people without access to the internet during lockdown.A second Kity was also delivered in October 2020.

Three Minute Heroes launch

Image fro IG Kultur publication, Austria https://www.igkultur.at/artikel/arts-prescription-new-kind-medicine

Culture Politic International, Dec 2019 Keynote at EU policy workshop in Vienna

GM Arts, Culture and Mental Health feature month

The Winston Churchill Trust's Travelling Fellowship

Exhibition and talks from by Will Self and Profesor Jphn Read John Baldessari – Matthew Buckingham – Sophie Calle – Marc Camille Chaimowicz – Moyra Davey – Luke Fowler – Gillian Wearing – Catherine Yass The modern city has frequently been identified through its intensity – a busy and bustling environment of potentially creative and productive activity. For the spectator, this intensity can also tip over into a state in which reality is temporarily obscured. It is this finely balanced state which the exhibition explores, the condition of urban psychosis is presented as a recurring theme, a shadow which continues to haunt the city. July 2014

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Research Artist Carol Hanson's installation at Green Man: Doris and Ivor's Carry On Cartoon Camping

The Human Library is an international equalities movement that challenges prejudice and discrimination through social contact. It uses the language and mechanism of a library to facilitate respectful conversations that can positively change people’s attitudes and behaviours towards members of our communities who are at risk of exclusion and marginalisation. http://humanlibraryuk.org/

Dementia and Imagination exhibition in conjunction with Chesterfield's famous Crooked Spire

BBC Radio Sheffield

The Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester. Public talk alongside Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit by Margaret Edson, ‘Making Great Art Out Of Illness’.

Workshop space at Nottingham Contemporary

Research Artist Carol Hanson installation at Einstein’s Garden, Green Man festival