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Posted: Monday 7 September, 2015
CBS share the love of poetry
The mindshare poetry awards gained a new supporter with local not-for-profit organisation Community Bridging Services (CBS) Inc. now contributing to the poetry program. The awards, a reimagining of the popular Open Your Mind competition offer opportunity for people with lived experience of mental illness to share their poetry work. The assistance...
Posted: Wednesday 8 July, 2015
Launching 2015 mindshare Awards
Access2Arts have partnered with the mindshare online mental health community website to present the mindshare awards (formerly the Open Your Mind poetry competition). The awards were launched at an event held in the gallery of The Mill Adelaide creative space at an afternoon tea-style event. Melbourne poet, Sandy Jeffs, was...
Posted: Wednesday 8 July, 2015
What is Reasonable and Necessary?
Access2Arts have partnered with Arts Access Australia (AAA) to create 'Reasonable and Necessary', a project aimed at encouraging people to think big about their goals and their futures, and providing a fun and creative way for people to share these goals with planning teams at the NDIS. With a history...
Posted: Monday 15 June, 2015
Nothing says it more than a poem
When Sandy Jeffs was diagnosed with schizophrenia it was not the end of the world, in fact it was actually the start of her writing career. Yet her aspirations to write started in high school when she was introduced to TS Elliott. It fuelled a dream that she now lives. “When I...