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“Behind Everything There’s a Person” — Making Space for Expression at the Glasgow Zine Festival
Glasgow Zine Library co-director Chris Yeoh talks to Olivia Juett from our volunteer collective during a visit to the Glasgow Zine Festival about zines, sharing and giving yourself permission to make.
It’s time for arts reviews to be trauma-informed
Theatre-maker and facilitator Libby Taylor from our Volunteer Collective reflects on adopting a trauma-informed approach to arts reviews, highlighting the significant impact that feedback from critics can have on artists’ mental health.
Writer Spotlight: Kirsty Crawford on her creative process and postpartum poems
Kirsty Crawford spoke to Lucy Cameron about her creative process and postpartum poems after winning the Poetry and Jury prizes at the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival 2025.
Writer Spotlight: Kim Campbell on the psychology of skin, trauma, and childhood
Lucy Cameron from the SMHAF Volunteer Collective spoke to writer Kim Campbell after she was shortlisted in the Fiction category at the SMHAF 2025 writing awards for her short story ‘Skin’.
Erin McGrath: Processing Personal Experiences Through Comics
Lily Bell caught up with Erin McGrath to reflect on her autobiographical comic inspired by her experience of new motherhood, commissioned for the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival 2025.
Making the Invisible Visible
Taking Heads volunteer Dr Antje Bothin wrote about her experience leading a mindful creative writing class for the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival (SMHAF), supported by See Me and Hamilton Town House.
Revealing Voices through Restorative Justice and Art at SMHAF
Dan Shay interviews Inesa Velaviciute from Community Justice Scotland about their exhibition Restorative Voices: Seen and Heard at the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival.
Quiet Revolution
Talking Heads volunteer Paul Duncan composed this piece of music in response to Photography Revolution, a photography exhibition by participants at Dundee mental health charity Wellbeing Works.
Interview with koi collective on their Hysterical free fall through the history of mad women
Listen to this podcast by Talking Heads volunteer Kirsty Ann-Watters, as she spoke to koi collective about their new play Hysterical.
Canalside Stories: Wellbeing Walk
Using the canal surroundings and personal experiences, Inesa Vėlavičiūtė reports on how participants in this wellbeing walk wove a fictional story step by step.
