📢 Saturday, 10 October, from 12pm 

Watch live via our our festival homepage here now

 

Join our virtual World Mental Health Day Festival 2020. All of our activities are free, open to everyone and available right here on the Thrive LDN website.

Everything you need to know about the festival is outlined below. See you there!

What’s on?

We’ve been working with City Hall’s Peer Outreach Team to put together an exciting line-up of performances, panel discussions and workshops all about supporting you to build resilience and promote positive wellbeing.

The various performances, panel discussions and workshops will offer you a platform to discuss with other young people the challenges faced during COVID-19 and explore shared experiences of inequality and issues raised through the Black Lives Matter movement.

Workshops: As part of our virtual World Mental Health Day Festival we have three live workshops planned. Register for these below.

Performances: The festival will feature a collection of spoken word, poetry and music, all recorded at London’s Young Vic theatre from more than 15 young artists. The performances will be available to watch throughout the festival. The line-up includes artists such as Grime MC Laughta, who featured in BBC Three’s, Galdem Sugar, Rakaya Fetuga, winner of the Roundhouse Poetry Slam in 2018, and Woodzy, a flo poet who has reached close to a million views of his 90’s Baby poem. Plus many more!

Panel discussions: Several panel discussions will feature as part of the festival’s programme, covering topics such as culture, sport, social inequalities and creating a fairer society.

Conversations: Alongside the panel discussions, several one on one conversations will be premiered too. One of which is between Sanah Ahsan, a community psychologist, award-winning poet and all-round disrupter, and Jumoké Fashola, BBC radio presenter, journalist, vocalist and actor. In a powerful and intimate exchange recorded at London’s Young Vic theatre the pair explore how we can encourage vulnerability in our communities.

You join the conversation from all panels and ‘in conversations’ by using the hashtags #ThriveLDN and #WMHD2020 on social media. Share the details with your friends and networks via Twitter, Instagram and TikTok.

Register now

Register to receive updates about the festival’s line-up. You can also pre-register for the festival’s live workshops (further down this page).

 

#WMHD2020 live workshops

As part of our virtual World Mental Health Day Festival we have three live workshops planned.

1. Interactive workshop with the team behind Kooth – 1pm – 1.40pm

Join the team behind Kooth, a free service which provides anonymous and personalised mental health support for children and young people.

2. Sing ‘Live Again’ with Melissa James – 3pm – 3.45pm

Join singer-songwriter Melissa James in a specially held singing workshop for World Mental Health Day. Open to all, regardless of singing experience or ability, this is an opportunity to learn parts to Melissa’s song, Live Again, which spearheaded her Big Sing and mental health project, SING4SANE. Be part of an exciting, creative initiative building confidence and raising aspirations.

3. Spoken Word Poetry Workshop with Write2Speak – 4.30pm – 5.30pm.

Find your creative spark by joining Yossi Goodlink and Tyler Luke, the artists behind Write2Speak, for an interactive workshop which will show you that poetry isn’t stuck to the traditional formats you think it is.

 

#WMHD2020 live closing panel

In conversation between… Thrive Edinburgh, Amsterdam and London – 6pm – 6.30pm.

At 6pm (UK BST), Thrive Edinburgh, Thrive Amsterdam and Thrive LDN will come together via live video link to conclude respective World Mental Health Day activities. The short conversation will be hosted by Mental Health Foundation CEO, Mark Rowland.