Posts that consider the mental health and wellbeing benefits of arts and yoga practices and also describe arts and wellbeing events with a similar focus.
We’re back in deep lockdown here in Ireland and the kids are again unable to go to school. Although Covid earthquakes have profoundly rocked the world’s reality since 2020, another silent tsunami of ill health is also hitting global shores. A mental health crisis looms now as a direct consequence of the isolation, fear and …
(or Raw Creativity is a Playful Tool for Self Care). A part of me flinches when I shape my mouth around the words “I am an Artist.” Artists are special, anointed, they possess GENIUS. They generate the stuff that is CULTURE. Sure, what would I know about that? The Imposter Syndrome makes me cough and …
Lockdown has driven everyone to technology. I should be in my element. In a ‘past life’ I was a tech whizz. I dabbled in coding and used cutting edge interactive video and sound software, as well as sensors and microcontrollers during my masters degree and doctoral research. I even designed an interactive multimedia tool called …
“What happens in Vagus” Everywhere you look in Ireland there are those yellow, black and white ads with spiky sphere graphics representing viruses. I was having a nice relationship with the colour yellow until they authorities hijacked it. Now, I’m not so sure. I’m a visual learner, so as went into the eighth week of …
The Sky’s not Falling In!!!!! The day after the school’s closed due to the pandemic, a pretty unusual ‘Late Late Show’ aired on RTÉ. No audience attended and there were representatives from the health service, teachers and voluntary organisations present to discuss the unfolding and unprecedented situation. It was all entirely surreal, but what stood …
Recently, I had occasion to put the following question to our favourite childhood hero: “Bosco, when people grow up they sometimes forget to play and sing and draw pictures and dance. I think it helps to keep people happy. What do you think? (To hear Bosco’s advice on maintaining your sense of fun as a grown-up you …
I had a dream ….bring First Fortnight arts and mental health festival to Co. Donegal… Once I made the call and the woman ‘from Delmonte said Yes’, I got audacious and started dreaming more dreams and making more calls. Here is what has come together. Hold the dates. Ar an gCéad Dul Síos – The Balor Theatre, …
In Seán O’Casey’s play ‘Juno and the Paycock,’ Capt. Jack Boyle drunkenly slurs a classic line that seems eternally relevant; “the whole world is in a terrible state o’ chassis.” Chaos, or the confusion that could lead us towards it, can seem ever-present in the distracting haze of modern life. We perform the balancing act …