SCOTTISH MENTAL HEALTH ARTS & FILM FESTIVAL 2009
1 – 22 October 2009
Details of the multi arts festival programme will be announced early September, so please look out for event and booking details. www.mhfestival.com
SCOTTISH MENTAL HEALTH ARTS & FILM FESTIVAL 2009 wants you to help programme our festival films and music activity!
Song appeal: MUSIC LIKE A VITMAIN
"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents." Ludwig van Beethoven
The Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival would like YOU to suggest songs that inspire hope. We are looking for songs that inspire, uplift, provoke thought and stir the heart; songs which have offered you hope and encouragement in moments of feeling down as well as songs that encourage self-empowerment.
The songs YOU suggest, from sad songs, to love songs, songs about relationships and life, songs to empower, anti-war songs and environment songs, will be collated by the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival along with some of Scotland's finest musicians. The collection of songs you suggest will be used to inform the Music like a Vitamin strand of the festival in October 2009, and will possibly be performed at one of the festival gigs.
Here are some suggestions so far:
Lou Reed: Perfect Day, David Bowie: Heroes, The Smiths: There is a light that never goes out, Johnny Cash: Jackson, John Martyn: Over the Hill, Arcade Fire: Intervention, Bruce Springstein: I’m on Fire, Elvis: I Just Can’t Help Believing, Nina Simone: Feeling Good, Waterboys: Whole of the Moon, Leonard Cohen: Dance me to the end of love, The Beach Boys: Good Vibrations
Please email your suggestions to [email protected] naming song and artist.
It’s official: MOVIES ARE GOOD FOR YOU!
Since movies first came into being they have engaged, delighted and challenged us. Cinema has given us enriching, life-affirming, collective experiences to offset the strains of our everyday lives.
Now the Scottish Mental Health Arts & Film Festival, the largest festival of its kind in the world, would like you to suggest the films that make you feel good!
We are looking for suggestions across the whole spectrum of cinema, from musicals and comedies to thrillers, sci-fi and horror, art house, mainstream or blockbuster. It’s not always so-called ‘happy’ films which make us feel good, sometimes its films in which we see ourselves and our lives reflected, films which challenge and stimulate our minds and creativity, and films which make us laugh and cry.
Your suggestions don’t need to be about mental health, we’re looking for films which make us feel positive, so any film is a contender.
Here are some of the team’s suggestions so far:
Midnight Cowboy, Man With a Movie Camera, Leningrad Cowboys Go America, Harold and Maude, Groundhog Day, Grease, Imitation of Life, Amelie, Big Lebowski, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Lassie Come Home, Life of Brian, Dirty Dancing, Shrek, The Lost Boys
Please send your film titles to [email protected] with ‘feel good films’ in the subject line. Don’t forget to tell us what the film means to you. Please visit us at www.mhfestival.com
