Mental Health Awareness Week 2020
Mental Health Awareness Week runs from 18-24 May and we’re hosting a number of sessions to help people look after their mental health and wellbeing, through theatre.
While we cannot physically meet at our theatres, it’s really important that we keep in touch with the communities we work with. Through Life Rooms at the Playhouse we have worked with some brilliant people, and we want to make sure we keep in touch.
With support from The Co-op Foundation, and Mersey Care, we are still providing a range of sessions to help keep people engaged.
We've put together a schedule of what is going on during Mental Health Awareness Week.
All sessions need to be booked onto, and you can do so by contacting our creativity and social change director Rebecca Ross-Williams: [email protected]. Activities are conducted via Zoom and space is limited.
Monday 18 May
- 12pm Creating and sharing stories with the subject ‘local places as inspiration’
- 3pm Post show digital theatre chat for key change
- 5pm Meet a theatre Marketing Director: tea and chat with our communications and marketing director Sarah Ogle
Tuesday 19 May
- 12pm Confidence through drama improvisation
- 3pm Shared reading
- 5pm Meet a theatre Community Director: tea and chat with creativity and social change director Rebecca Ross-Williams
Wednesday 20 May
- 12pm Fun drama for wellbeing – games and exercises
- 3pm Creative writing for wellbeing sharing session
- 5pm Meet a Set Designer – tea and chat with Rosie Renals-Wells
Thursday 21 May
- 12pm Confidence through drama (four week course)
- 3pm Play reading of a comedy with introduction and chat
- 5pm Meet a theatre’s Artistic Director: tea and chat with artistic director Gemma Bodinetz
Friday 22 May
- 12pm Play Well - drama improvisation
- 3pm Singing for wellbeing with Holistic Harmonies
- 5pm Meet a theatre’s Puppeteer – tea and chat with Eilidh Bryan
All week
Key Change by Open Clasp Theatre Company
Devised with women in prison (HMP Low Newton) to tour to male prisons, their voices travel over the razor wire in a raw, illuminating and very funny portrayal of women in prison (content includes references to domestic violence).
This piece will then be discussed in the post shows digital theatre chat at 3pm on Monday 18 May.
About Mental Health Awareness Week 2020
Mental health problems can affect anyone, at any time. For one week each May, the Mental Health Foundation campaign around a specific theme for Mental Health Awareness Week. Since the first Mental Health Awareness Week in 2001, the foundations has raised awareness of topics like body image, stress and relationships. Hundreds of schools, businesses and communities have started conversations around mental health that can change and even save lives. The theme for 2020 is kindness, in response to the coronavirus outbreak.
Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse is proud to work with The Co-op Foundation and Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust to improve the wellbeing our our local community.
Find out more about the work we do as part of Life Rooms at the Playhouse.