Northern Ireland Mental Health festival, 9th-19th May 2025
The programme for the NI Mental Health Arts Festival 2025 launches today, and Golden Thread Gallery is delighted to be a part of it.
This year the festival theme this year is Catharsis, “the release of emotions through the process of creative expression, leading to a sense of emotional renewal”. Art has such an important role to play in supporting mental health and wellbeing. As NIMHAF Co-Chairs Noelle Mc Alinden and Damien Coyle remind us,
‘Many of us know first hand from lived experience the power of the arts to provide safe sanctuary, a place to shrink & grow, that can help transform ourselves as well as our communities. The arts can provide a catalyst for change, finding release, resolution and renewal in challenging times.’
NIMHAF is a festival highlighting mental health by showcasing arts events across Northern Ireland, from visual arts and photography, poetry and song to psychodrama, music, comedy and film. The festival vows to put transformation on the agenda across Northern Ireland. Founded in 2013, the Northern Ireland Mental Health Arts Festival (NIMHAF) was the first of its kind in Northern Ireland.
Our current exhibitions, Stay A While by Stuart Calvin, and Decoys & Ghosts by John Rainey, are both part of the festival’s exhibition programme.
And we are hosting two special free workshops celebrating mindfulness through art, Mindful Drawing on Saturday 10th May 11-12, and Mindful Painting on Saturday 17th May 2-3pm.
Congratulations to the NIMHAF Team on putting together such a varied, inspiring programme!
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