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Week 1 Disentangling emotions

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Welcome to Week 1 of Mindful Arts and Creative Expression, a reflective space where you can connect with yourself and express your feelings in a creative way.

Each week we will offer a theme or creative suggestion and will talk you through ways to feel centred and connected. We will be including a variety of art forms, for example drawing, painting, sculpture, poetry and rhythm/music. 

Remember, you do not need to have any previous experience so… turn on your audio and watch your first video!

When you have finished, we invite you to share your responses as seeing others’ interpretations can create a sense of togetherness in these changing times. If you choose to do so, you can share your creative reflections with others on our INSTAGRAM @MindfulArtsCreativeExpression.

 

If you are unable to access the audio, here is a brief summary:

  • Week 1 is intended as an introduction, to connect with yourself and how you are feeling in the here and now.
  • Check in with yourself, what emotion are you feeling most strongly right now?
  • What materials might you like to use to capture your feeling, for example: pencil, paint, pastels, found objects, collage, sculpture, photography, poetry?
  • You may wish to experiment with colour, shape, different mark making.
  • It does not have to be finished for you to share it with others, all creative expression is valued.
  • If it helps, set yourself a time limit. 
  • If you use photography, please avoid pictures of people or identifiable places.
  • Once you have finished and if you would like to share it with others, please take a picture of your creation and share it on our Instagram gallery.

 

Enjoy the experience and we look forward to seeing the mindful creative outputs shared in our INSTAGRAM gallery!

See you next week, at the same time at the same place (if you wish to receive a reminder with a link to next session please join the mailing list/follow this blog). Be well and stay safe,

Jude & Erminia

 

ONLINE PREMIERE OF ‘BREAKING THE CHAINS: ANTO’S STORY’ NEXT TUESDAY 31/03/2020

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Hallo Movie-ment friends,

in these months of silence so much has been happening, including two film/fieldwork in Indonesia and Ghana for the Together for Mental Health project (funded by UK ESRC GCRF and lead by Erminia Colucci). You will find the outputs in this website when ready but in the meantime you can also follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook (look for Together for Mental Health or @Together4MH).

In the meantime, the sequelae of Breaking the Chains planned for last week in London had to be cancelled because of the pandemic (sigh!) but fear not…we went digital as for everything else right now and we are happy to announce the ONLINE PREMIERE “Breaking the chains: Anto’s story” next Tuesday. Please see the flyer for info, sign in here if interested http://ugm.id/btchain and feel free to share, the system we are using can take up to 3000 people! The film will also be available on this website after we launch it.

We still plan to have a live premiere in London when we are finally able to be close to each other again, in the meantime we wish you all the best self-distancing weekend you can and take care!UGMLaunch-31Mar2020!

Visual storytelling in global mental health event and GCRF grant for next films!

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A 44 min version of Breaking the chains will be screened on the 22nd Nov as part of a visual storytelling event organised by LSHTM in London. For more information click here and tell your friends!

I would also like to express my deepest gratitude to all of you who have supported Breaking the chains throughout its making (including crowdfunding donors!) and to screen and distribute it, including the Royal Anthropological Institute which is now the official distributor of the educational DVDs and online versions of the film (BUY FILM HERE)

Your support and acknowledgement of the value of this work has contributed to help me and my team secure ESRC GCRF funding for the next ethnographic documentary project that will take place in Indonesia and Ghana, you can find more information HERE and watch this space for updates!

thanks and keep moving!

Erminia & Movie-ment.org

 

Screenings in Holland and Scotland

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And after a very successful screening with panel discussion in the evening slot of the DUTCH GLOBAL HEALTH FESTIVAL in Utrecht on the 28th October, Breaking the chain is going to Edinburgh this Thursday for a free screening followed by discussion and reception organized by the Edinburgh Global Mental Health Network.

MORE INFO HERE and please share with Scottish friends who might be able to join in the movie-ment.

Rotary International Club awards a prize as recognition of Erminia Colucci’s work

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On Friday 2nd June 2017 (Italian National Day and Republic Day), Dr Erminia Colucci (founder of Movie-ment) was awarded the 2017 ‘Martinesi nel mondo’ prize by the Rotary International club (Martina Franca section), for her contribution made on a global scale to the issues of mental health, human rights and violence against women and children as a researcher, lecturer, clinician, activist/advocate and film-maker.

The ceremony took place in Martina Franca town Hall and was attended by members of the public, police and government authorities and Rotary members. During the ceremony, Erminia gave an overview of her career trajectory and main achievements and showed a short-cut of her documentary ‘Breaking the chains’.

Three Screenings with discussion of Breaking the chains and official release of the RAI DVD in Paris and London this month!

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This month, Breaking the chains is screening in London (11th and 23rd May) and in Paris (19th May). One of the London events will be the official release of the RAI DVD of Breaking the Chains, exciting! 

Please forward the links below to interested people in these cities, thanks!

London Screening 

London DVD launch

Paris Screening

Breaking the chains prize and nomination

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Good news!! Breaking the chains has received a Rotary prize from Italy  and has been nominated by the Richard Werbner Award for Visual Ethnography for ‘works that explore the distinctive capacity of the film to complement and enhance anthropological knowledge communicated through text’ .

Thanks to all of you who have and are supporting this work, I hope to continue doing more work in this area, in Indonesia and the other several countries with similar practices, grazie!

Lived Experiences of Mental Health through First-Hand Films

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During this event organized by East London Psych Film Club, Dr Erminia Colucci will be showing three projects where she used film as a participatory/collaborative method to create stories about lived experience of mental illness, suicidal behaviour and recovery.
Free entry till last seat is taken!

Venue: The Crown Pub (223 Grove Road, Victoria Park, E3 5SN). Upstairs (1st floor) in The ‘Paper Room’ at 7-9 pm

 FOR MORE INFO CLICK HERE