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Georgina teaches on the three clinical short courses at the Institute of Psychiatry, providing both carer and user perspectives of recovering from Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder.
She is also an examiner for these three courses and runs workshops on the subject.
She delivers presentations to a wide variety of audiences. Her work has led to her being awarded honorary lecturer status within the Institute’s Section of Mental Health Nursing.
She also works for various universities and NHS Trusts.
We create music using your selected artwork, photography or poetry.
Once rethinkyourmind 2014/15 is complete, the 4 music singles will be available for download.
The bands and artists
These are the bands and artists that give up their time for this project. Our sincere thanks to all of them.
As lead singer with The Bluetones Mark enjoyed a 15 year recording career that produced 6 studio albums, 3 of which achieving Top 10 sales in the UK, including the #1 album ‘Expecting to Fly’, 13 Top 40 singles, and a Brit nomination in 1996.
Mark has recorded 2 solo albums and music for various side projects, including the Title and Chapter music for the 6 audio book versions of David Walliams’ children’s stories. Mark was also a judge on the Album of the Year panel for the Ivor Novello Awards.
Lucy Ward is an award winning acoustic artist from Derby. After winning the Horizon Award for best newcomer at the 2012 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, Lucy’s career has gone from strength to strength.
In 2013 it was announced that she had been nominated for the acclaimed “Folk Singer of the Year” at the 2014 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, making Lucy one of the youngest people ever to be nominated for this most prestigious award.
Her latest album ‘Single Flame’ became MOJO #2 Best Folk Album 2013.
Refuge are an acoustic band with baggage, sporting an appropriate interest in pushbikes & cheesecake!
The latest album ‘Time Together’ and new single ‘Reflections’ have been played on BBC Introducing.
Refuge are currently working on ‘Moving InWards’, with Mark Morriss, former lead singer of ‘The Bluetones’, this project aims to make live music an everyday feature on mental health wards.
Working on ‘rethinkyourmind’ 2012 was an excellent experience for the band and they are looking forward to being involved again!
Olivia Rose Deane is a Leicester based singer songwriter who has long written music and songs for herself and has recently discovered that other people like listening to them too.
As well as a few gigs and performing at Edinburgh Fringe; Olivia has also released her debut single “Sally” and getting ready to record the next.
Lydia Towsey – Poet/Performer Lydia Towsey is the chair of the rethinkyourmind poetry assessor panel. She is a poet and performer with a Masters in Creative Writing. More…
Moniza Alvi was born in Pakistan and grew up in Hertfordshire. After working for many years as a secondary school teacher in London, she is now a freelance writer and tutor, and lives in Wymondham, Norfolk with her husband and daughter.
Jean Breese stage name Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze was born in Jamaica and came to England in the 1980s. She is an internationally renowned poet and playwright and has shaped a voice that demands attention and response.
Adam Horovitz was born in London in 1971, and moved to Slad, Gloucestershire the same year. His debut collection, Turning, was released by Headland in 2011 and his most recent book, A Thousand Laurie Lees, was published by the History Press in 2014.
Helen Ivory is a poet and assemblage artist. Her fourth Bloodaxe Books collection is the semi-autobiographical Waiting for Bluebeard (May 2013). She has co-edited with George Szirtes In Their Own Words: Contemporary Poets on their Poetry Salt 2012.
For the last decade, Russell Thompson has worked for Apples and Snakes, England’s leading organisation devoted specifically to the advancement of live poetry.
SISO have joined forces with Citizens Eye and HowRU? to bring you an opportunity to be involved in an exciting new venture to raise awareness of Mental Health.
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Join the creative experience on world mental health day 2012. Will your work feature in the new book and CD? Enter to win.
Gary Hodges – Artist Gary Hodges is the chair of the rethinkyourmind art assessor Panel. Born in South London, Gary is one of the world’s most successful and best loved wildlife artists, publishing his own work, selling over 106,000 personally signed and numbered prints.
Born in Leicester, Jenny has a particular interest in experimenting with photographic and print processes to spur enquiry and evoke emotional response.
SISO have joined forces with Citizens Eye and HowRU? to bring you an opportunity to be involved in an exciting new venture to raise awareness of Mental Health.
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Join the creative experience on world mental health day 2012. Will your work feature in the new book and CD? Enter to win.
SISO have joined forces with Citizens Eye and HowRU? to bring you an opportunity to be involved in an exciting new venture to raise awareness of Mental Health.
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Join the creative experience on world mental health day 2012. Will your work feature in the new book and CD? Enter to win.
