Sunday 1 September 2019

AWKWARD CONVERSATIONS atT he Big Anxiety Festival

12-13 Oct, 11am-1pm & 2- 4pm, Customs House

Awkward Conversations offers one-on-one conversations in experimental formats, tackling anxieties, habits and hard-to-talk-about subjects like mental health. Conversationalists include:
  • Jonathan Dunk - a writer/researcher with experience of Type II Bipolar and O.C.D.
  • Bhenji Ra - an artist and dancer who uses body and voice to negotiate her public visibility as a trans woman of colour, living in the intersections of body dysmorphia and gender dysphoria.
  • Debra Keenahan - an artist confronting taboos of sexuality and disability in relation to her own lived experience with achondroplasia (dwarfism).
  • Daniel Regan – London-based artist who uses photography to survive, and to ask questions about self-harm.
  • Wart - a multidisciplinary artist and self-described “kook” whose life experience in the realm of the so-called schizo-affective has given her entertaining insights into psychiatry and community mental health.
  • Eugenie Lee - an artist living with pain and using to technology to communicate this.
  • Wil Centurian - a performer whose own mental health experiences inform the counselling and life-coaching he now provides to actors, singers and dancers.
  • Faisal Sayani – a filmmaker and former journalist in Pakistan whose work is informed by his experience of depression.
  • Amala Groom - a Wiradjuri artist who uses First Nations knowledge(s) and perspectives to address the experience of anxiety.

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