Wednesday Programme
Mental Wealth
Festival 2023
Frazzled Cafe Online
| Time: | 7:30-8:30 |
| Location: | Online |
| Speaker: | Damian - Frazzled Cafe |
Join us for an online version of Frazzled Cafe facilitated peer support meetings. Frazzled Cafe meetings are designed to provide confidential and non-judgmental peer support, where people who are feeling overwhelmed by the stresses of life can talk openly, connect and feel heard. If this is your first time attending one we encourage you to have a look at the website which will tell you a bit more about what to expect: https://www.frazzledcafe.org/about/
Connect through playing percussion
| Time: | 10:00-11:30 |
| Location: | City Lit |
| Speaker: | Sarha Moore |
Discover how you can connect with others through making music together.
Connecting through collaborative writing
| Time: | 10:00-12:30 |
| Location: | City Lit |
| Speaker: | Brian Mullin |
Two (or more!) heads are better than one! Collaborate with others to create short pieces of theatre, using everyone's skills and ideas to tell collective stories.
Find connection through the power of Welsh songs
| Time: | 11:00-12:30 |
| Location: | City Lit |
| Speaker: | Clare Whitehead |
Enjoy singing and connecting with others in the Welsh language. You do not need to speak Welsh.
Connect through singing
| Time: | 11:00-12:30 |
| Location: | City Lit |
| Speaker: | Trish Shaw |
Explore how we connect with others through singing together.
Humour through Adversity with Garth MacAnally
| Time: | 13:00-14:00 |
| Location: | Cultureplex |
| Speaker: | Garth MacAnally |
Join Garth MacAnally from Life and Progress (EAP) for a talk about humour through adversity.
Spanish for fun
| Time: | 14:00-15:30 |
| Location: | City Lit |
| Speaker: | Virtu Tomas Rodriguez |
Get a flavour of a new language and its basic sentence structure. Learn some useful phrases and some pronunciation guidelines. A fascinating introduction for complete beginners.
Connecting with our Past through Archaeology
| Time: | 14:45-16:45 |
| Location: | City Lit |
| Speaker: | Jill Hummerstone |
Archaeology can connect us with our shared history and artefacts can link us to past people. Sharing a contemplative practical task in class will help us to reflect on these connections.
Explore the body through contemporary dance
| Time: | 15:30-16:30 |
| Location: | City Lit |
| Speaker: | Orley Quick |
An introduction to the basics of Contemporary dance through Release-based technique, to help you understand the principles of the body in movement and explore your own movement range.
Applied improv for mental health
| Time: | 18:00-20:00 |
| Location: | Online |
| Speaker: | Ketan Varia |
This online session focuses on Applied Improvisation techniques, moving beyond theatre or acting, to enhance your well-being, develop social interaction, foster innovative thinking, and enable spontaneous and authentic idea sharing.
In conversation with Clarke and Carrie Carlisle
| Time: | 18:30-19:30 |
| Location: | Cultureplex |
| Speakers: | Clarke Carlisle, Carrie Carlisle |
Join us for an in conversation with Clarke and Carrie Carlisle. Former professional footballer Clarke Carlisle understands, from painful personal experience, just how important it is to look after your mental health. In this talk, Clarke and Carrie will talk about their personal experiences on mental health, suicide, and relationships.
Communicate with confidence
| Time: | 18:30-20:00 |
| Location: | City Lit |
| Speaker: | Giles Abbott |
Gain some insight into how to improve your voice for increased confidence in communication.
Fully booked
Haiku for Wellbeing
| Time: | 14:00-16:00 |
| Location: | City Lit |
| Speaker: | Pearl May |
Writing Haiku poems can provide a peaceful distraction from illness by focusing on creative writing. Work can produce a feeling of achievement. Haiku can help to get in touch with the natural world and show man’s place in it.