Category: Talking Heads

Kirsty Strang-Roy caught up with Imogen Stirling about The Boulders We Carry, a new immersive storytelling piece that will premiere at Manifesto.

A conversation between Clare Robertson, Stefanie Blum and Talking Heads volunteer Bilyana Palankasova about the participatory performance Home: A Performative Space, which featured at SMHAF 2021 with support from Thrive Edinburgh. Bilyana: How did you decide to work together and how does that sit with your individual practices? How do you see your individual practices […]

This episode of the podcast Being On The Inside was produced by Nina Abeysuriya, as a volunteer with the Talking Heads project.

Conversations for Change was a public art project about mental health that See Me and CAPS Advocacy ran in Edinburgh in 2015. Last Wednesday saw the book launch of two books produced as part of the original project, and a chance to revisit the central question:

Is mental health a difficult topic of conversation…?

In this Mind Matters podcast for the Talking Heads project at SMHAF 2021, Michael McEwan speaks to writers Sasha Greene and Angela McCrimmon about writing and mental health. Sasha Greene is the Scottish author of Something Like Happy, a novel which explores mental health issues, and is passionate about mental health and diversity.  Angela McCrimmon is […]

Talking Heads volunteer Nic Saunders has written this account exploring how watching birds helped during lockdown and taking part in poet Ken Cockburn’s workshop at SMHAF 2021, ‘Where Are the Birds Taking Me?’. When the first lockdown started last year and we were asked to stay at home, the hyperactive energy that usually permeated the […]

In this Mind Matters podcast for the Talking Heads project at SMHAF 2021, Michael McEwan interviews Janine from the Well Happy Band and Ayrshire-based singer-songwriter Michelle Connolly.

I spent time in the enchanted woodland and did the things I was most afraid of – I sat under the trees and listened with all of my senses.

What is normality?

If you’re so inclined – and many of us are – the idea of normality can be a pretty toxic stick to beat yourself with.

Schizophrenia is a heavily stigmatised mental illness. This video looks at the representation of schizophrenia and its symptoms in a collection of Western films in order to identify trends and work out which narratives are broadcast to the world at large through our entertainment.