The Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival runs from 1-19 October and promotes the power of creativity and the arts to improve mental health and wellbeing.  The Festival aims to promote positive messages about mental health, challenge stigma and discrimination, and encourage people to experience how being creative can help you to feel better.  Could you become involved?

This year’s theme is ‘POWER’.   This could also include themes like protest/control/voice/disempowerment/justice/ equality/identity or language.  In Fife the Festival is funded by the Adult Protection Committee and Fife Cultural Trust.

Do you already have something planned that could tie in and benefit from the extra publicity?  Could you organise something to highlight the imporance of good mental health and all you need is a little bit of funding to do it?  If so why not get in touch.

We have also booked the Activity Room space at St Andrews Museum and Art Gallery from 15th September, and would be interested to hear from you regarding ideas for workshops, small scale performances or visual artwork which would be suitable for children aged 10 years or under.  A small amount of funding may be available.

We would also be interested to hear about any projects which would be interested in linking the Festival theme of ‘power’ with Adult Protection messages.

Send details of your ideas and associated costings to: shona.mcewan@fife.gov.uk or call Shona on 03451 55 55 55 ext 442134 by 19 May.

More info is available at: www.fifedirect.org.uk/smhaff or at mhfestival.com