First Fortnight 2020
AIMS & OBJECTIVES
- Make the beginning of each year synonymous with mental health awareness, challenging prejudice and ending stigma.
- Create a consistent space in the national cultural calendar where citizens can be inspired through arts and cultural events to talk about mental health issues in a non-scripted manner.
- Utilise unscripted conversation to change people’s perceptions about the ordinary experience of a mental health problem and the less ordinary experience of mental ill health.
- Advocate for change to the art making system (artists, art funding streams, art education programmes, cultural venues, arts institutions and discipline-specific festivals and groups) to accommodate the development and production of mental health themed artwork.
- Provide the highest standard of free Creative Therapies to people experiencing homelessness or at risk of expeciencing homelessness,
affected by mental ill health or dual diagnosis. - Provide free mental health care to the cultural sector.
- Develop research findings to aid policymakers in the development of a greater understanding of the complex maintaining factors affecting mental health prejudice and discrimination.
- Commission and publish research interrogating the efficacy of the services we provide.
- Maintain co-operation with relevant partners in the developments of new funding streams and collaborations.
- Develop and maintain a workforce and governance structures suitable for the delivery of professional level of activities and service provision that enable voluntary efforts of committed activists.
Event Details
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| Nearest Stop(s): | St. Stephen's Green (Green Line), Abbey Street (Red Line), O'Connell - GPO (Green Line) |
| Start Date/Time: | Wed Jan 1 2020 @ 12:00 pm |
| End Date/Time: | Fri Jan 31 2020 @ 12:00 am |
