Join theatre-maker Caroline Horton and storyteller Sinead O’Brien for a discussion about Performing Anxiety, an ambitious new good practice resource created by the Mental Health Foundation and the team behind the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival.

Performing Anxiety is designed for people who want to make creative work about mental health, from autobiographical shows about anxiety and depression to participatory projects working with vulnerable people. It consists of a five-episode podcast, a 60-page publication, a set of evolving good practice guidelines, and more.

In this online event we talk to two of the project’s contributors: Caroline Horton, who has made two widely influential and award-winning theatre shows about mental health, Mess and All of Me, and has gone on to do an MSc in Integrative Psychotherapy at Warwick University, and Sinead O’Brien, an Irish storyteller who has now made two acclaimed solo shows, No One is Coming, and Hero/Banlaoch, drawing on her experiences of growing up with a mother living with mental illness and a father living with alcoholism.

In case you are unable to attend our in-person events, the festival has teamed up with Arts Culture Health and Wellbeing Scotland to curate a series of four online discussions featuring some of our speakers and other invited guests. Please scroll down for details of the other three events.