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Emergence Arts & Social Network Event 30th March – Tate Modern

Posted on March 5, 2012 | Leave a comment

Hi Everyone, details of the next Emergence Arts & Social Network event below…

“I’m delighted to let you know the details of our next Arts and Social Network event on the 30th March at the Tate Modern.

The event will consist of one of Liz Ellis’s interactive and highly enjoyable Art into Life tours. This time the theme will be ‘Art and Power’ and we will tour the States of Flux exhibition with the aim of looking at different media including Jenny Holzer’s text work with flashing LED lights (there will be an alternative if anyone has a problem with these lights).

For further information go to http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/CollectionDisplays?showid=1333 or http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/community/pdf/art_into_life_leaflet.pdf

Date: Friday 30th March 2012
Place: Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG
Time: The tour will start at 6.30pm after which we will go for coffee as usual.

Further information about the Arts and Social Network is appended below this message. Please contact us by email or telephone 020 8233 2854/5 to either let us know you would like to attend or if you have any queries. Hope to see you on the 30th.

All best wishes

Arts & Social Network Team
emergence

admin@emergenceplus.org.uk

http://www.emergenceplus.org.uk

Office number: 0208 233 2854/5
Head Office Address
London House, 271-273 King Street
Hammersmith, London W6 9LZ”

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Posted in BPD, Emergence

Tagged art therapy, arts, borderline, bpd, emergence, mental health, personality disorder, social network, therapy

Lex

Posted on February 1, 2012 | Leave a comment

It was my intention when I started this blog to show all work that I am sent without it being juried or censored. However, some work may be contentious or triggering, and this is something I want to be able to protect my more vulnerable readers from. The work featured on this blog entry may be considered triggering so please do not read on if you are in a vulnerable place.
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Posted in Borderline Art, Illustration, Lex

Tagged blood, borderline, bpd, collage, design, illustration, lex, marie-louise plum, mental spaghetti, wax

What is Borderline Personality Disorder?

Posted on December 14, 2011 | 3 Comments

Animation by Ofir Sasson.

Ofir’s Tumblr.

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Posted in Animation

Tagged animation, borderline personality disorder, bpd, mental health, mental spaghetti, ofir sasson, pd

Blood Relations – raising funds for Emergence.

Posted on September 27, 2011 | Leave a comment

A chance to experience a fascinating, award winning play. Blood Relations, by Sharon Pollock, appeals to many different audiences: the intellectual, the ideological and those looking for a suspenseful murder-mystery. An extract from the play was recently presented at the Emergence Open Day in July. The fusion of acting with lying, disclosures with subterfuge, of compulsion with repression is endlessly intriguing and lies at the heart of this powerful exploration of the fact and fiction that has become the Lizzie Borden legend.

“Lizzie Borden took an axe, Gave her mother forty whacks,

When the job was nicely done, She gave her father forty-one…”

Given a certain set of circumstances, is anybody capable of anything? In 1892, Lizzie Borden was accused, tried and acquitted. Blood Relations finds Lizzie, years later, in the same family home, entertaining a friend and playing with the endless question…did she, or didn’t she?…

Resurgence Theatre Company, (who performed Differentia at the National PD Conference in 2009), have gathered an experienced cast with a wealth of experience spanning the RSC, the National Theatre, West End and regional productions plus leading roles in television and audio series such as Casualty, Dr. Who, Lynda La Plante’s The Governor, The Borgias, Soldier Soldier, Stargate and The Adventures of Bernice Summerfield.

Cast: John Banks, Lisa Bowerman, Susan Franklyn, Max Gold, Lori Miller, Pauline Munro, Regina Reagan, William Whymper.

This staged reading of Blood Relations will be a script-in–hand performance with some movement, where the emphasis is on characterisation and the emotional content of the piece – a recipe for a dynamic, spontaneous and powerful theatrical experience in an intimate space. Less than 40 seats available. Come and join us…

Thursday 13th October, 7.15pm at The Irish Cultural Centre, 5 Blacks Road, London, W6 9DT. Tickets £10. Contact www.brownpapertickets.com, key in the event you want and follow instructions to pay by card and print ticket(s)

We look forward to welcoming you at the events!

With best wishes,
emergence.

Help Emergence ‘Change Attitudes and Build Lives’ by supporting our fundraising events this October.

Book your tickets now and spread the word!

Follow this link for more details:

http://www.emergenceplus.org.uk/october-2011.html

Tel: 0208 233 2854

admin@emergenceplus.org.uk

www.emergenceplus.org.uk

Head Office Address

London House , 271-273 King Street

Hammersmith, London W6 9LZ

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Posted in Emergence, Mental Health, Organisations

Tagged blood relations, borderline, bpd, emergence, lizzie borden, play, theatre

Savannah Borderline.

Posted on March 20, 2011 | 1 Comment

Savannah Borderline recently submitted some work to the website. Savannah is an 18 year old girl diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. You can read about her diagnosis, living life with mental health ‘difficulties’ (I hate this expression but struggle to find the right way to describe how we get by), and how she gets through the mh system without going totally loopsome on her blog, Life of a Maybe Borderline.

Savannah enjoys painting these characters for her fiancé, who she describes as “an obsessive computer gamer”, because she’d rather paint for someone who’ll appreciate it. I guess I should have said somewhere on the blog that I will happily take copied artwork, and that it is every bit as important as original artwork because of the therapeutic process you go through to produce a finished piece. Savannah writes on her blog “I like drawing and painting, I enjoy creating things. I am a generally creative person, it’s so therapeutic and rewarding. Creativity leads to feelings of accomplishment.”

Please follow our lovely Savannah on Twitter, friend her on Facebook and don’t forget to read her blog.

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Posted in Acrylic Painting, Art Therapy, Borderline Art, Mental Health, Painting, SBorderline

Tagged abuse, borderline personality disorder, bpd, lifeofamaybeborderline, mental health, pd, personality disorder, PTSD, self harm, trauma

Art Therapy Alliance.

Posted on February 27, 2011 | Leave a comment

I found a great Facebook Page the other day – Art Therapy Alliance. In their own words they “embrace social media & connection online to promote art therapy, the work of art therapists, & build community.

The Art Therapy Alliance is an online professional group for art therapists on LinkedIn and fans on Facebook founded by Gretchen Miller, MA, ATR-BC. Our website, Twitter, and Facebook fanpage feature resources, groups, blogs, and more related to the field of art therapy worldwide.”

Penny Saylor talks about some of her art work while standing in front of a picture she painted of her daughter, Kandace Merrill, from when she was a child. Saylor and her daughter have their artwork on display in the lobby at Community Mental Health of Muskegon and a reception was held on Wednesday evening for the pair. Chronicle Photo by Matt Gade.

If you take only a cursory scan of their fanpage wall you can see various news items regarding health and wellbeing (not all directly mental health related) including the current exhibition of clinically depressed artist Penny Saylor from Michigan, USA, and Donna Mitchell, diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder three years ago.

Penny Saylor talks with Chris Erickson about her piece called “Dreams” during a reception at the Community Mental Health of Muskegon on Wednesday afternoon in the lobby. Saylor and her daughter Kandace Merrill are the feature artists in the Gallery at CMH Muskegon. Chronicle Photo by Matt Gade.

The Art Therapy Alliance fanpage is interesting, informative and a great resource to further your experience of art, creativity and mental health service users as well as art therapy and how creating art can be therapeutic. In August-September 2010 the ATA set up an artist trading card swap project. Here is a video about the project and some of the cards traded. It’s a lovely concept and one that builds interaction between artists who are also mental health service users.