YEAR 2! Download the whole Heads & Tales programme here CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD: Year2 Heads & Tales Programme

Join Lalya to sift through the archives, looking at mental health and its wider context through the ages. There will also be creative sessions to make artworks in response to the archive material.

Connecting stories from the past and present; across a wide range of experiences.
Including topics on: treatment, language, public spaces, media representation, art & literature.

Creative heritage sessions, exploring women & mental health, across the North East.

Take part and learn how to edit and add a page to Wikipedia. Help us create pages for North East mental health support centres, organisations, groups and people!

Learn to record interviews and stories about mental health in a safe environment.

Heads & Tales, Mental Health Heritage Project 1st-31st October Foyer, Newcastle City Library Showcasing a small but complex and diverse collection of items, information, audio and artworks from a new mental health archive for the North East. Exploring, challenging and rebalancing representation of mental health through lived experience. HEADS & TALES is a 2 year project to create a new heritage archive for the North East exploring, rebalancing and celebrating the voice of adults experiencing mental health conditions. This project is shaped and led by participants, volunteers and staff who are directly or indirectly affected by mental health issues. Led by Chilli Studios, a Mental Health Focused Art Studio, and funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund. For more info http://www.headntales.uk In conjunction with World Mental Health Day October 10th.

Celebrate World Mental Health Day and the 150th birthday of St Nicholas Hospital on Thursday 10th October 2019 at the Jubilee Theatre, St Nicholas Hospital, 11am - 2pm 11.00: Welcome and introduction – Ken Jarrold, Chair, CBE 11.10: The play “Clear White Light”, set in St Nicholas Hospital, is on its second run at Live Theatre, from 19 September - 12 October and features the songs of the late Alan Hull of Lindisfarne – some of which were written when Alan was working as a nurse at the hospital. We’re delighted that we will have with us Ray Laidlaw and Billy Mitchell, who play and sing in “Clear White Light” and are formerly of Lindisfarne, plus play director Joe Douglas. An hour of music, reminiscence, reflection on the issues - and the story of the play.…