Mad Hearts: The Arts and Mental Health 2026

This one-day event explores productive, radical, contemporary encounters between the arts and mental health, bringing together clinical, artistic and research perspectives that offer a re-interpretation of contemporary mental health science and practice, with a view of imagining a different future.

Highlights

• Workshop with Intergenerational Dance Project “All Age Thursdays”
• Presentation and conversation with staff and service users of the Barnsley Street Neighbourhood Mental Health Centre
• Performance by young people from award-winning creative health organisation DreamArts
• Interactive Exhibition: Little Red Riding Hood and Patriarchy
• Workshops: flower arranging for mental health, collage and more

Limited free tickets available email: Maria Turri m.turri@qmul.ac.uk