Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival 2024

‘SHED A Layer’ Free Workshop @ Melrose Corn Exchange
Tuesday 8 October

‘SHED A Layer’ is our touring workshop programme that runs alongside the dance / theatre performance of SHED at Melrose Corn Exchange. Join Northern Rascals for an exclusive 90 minute workshop to explore the method behind the making of their dance theatre show.

‘Shed’ by Northern Rascals – Theatre @ Melrose Corn Exchange
Wednesday 9 October
SHED is Northern Rascals’ brand-new project that uses visual art, spoken word and performance to raise awareness of the issues young people face with their mental health.

Can I be a butterfly? by Clare’s Many Threads – Performance Theatre @ Heart of Hawick
Wednesday 16 October

Can I be a butterfly? is a semi-autobiographical, part imagined, solo play about Chronic Fatigue and its possible message to a fast world. Using movement, poetry, sound, song and text, the performer weaves her own story around the fairytale of Briar Rose accompanied by the voices of others who have experienced ME and Chronic Fatigue.

‘Men Don’t Talk’ by Clare Prenton – Theatre @ Heart of Hawick
Friday 25 October

Three men find banter, bird boxes and biscuits in a fictional men’s shed, which celebrates companionship, camaraderie … and custard creams. Clare Prenton’s poignant, hilarious, moving and thought-provoking play, Men Don’t Talk, explores the myth that ‘men don’t talk’

‘In/Visible’ New Drama Workshops @ Heart of Hawick
Every Tuesday from 22/10/24 to 10/12/24

For our next theatre course for writers and actors you are invited to join us to create a new piece of theatre based on the theme of ‘In/Visible,’ exploring what it means to be invisible and how that translates to the stage.