Festival for Healthy Living
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How do you run a Festival?
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Create interest and develop a core group of potential partners.
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Attend an information session, or contact Festival members listed below and then follow the guidelines as set out in the Festival for Healthy Living publication, Festival for Health Living: Creative arts for mental health and connecting communities
The five major stages towards staging your own Festival for Healthy Living are:
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Establishing a regional steering committee
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Establishing local Infrastructure
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Towards performance/presentation
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Production: performances and exhibitions
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Post-production and planning for sustainability.
Aim
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To build the capacity of schools and communities to promote mental health and wellbeing through the performing and visual arts.
Objectives
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To promote better understanding of the spectrum of mental health in schools and communities, including prevention and destigmatisation of mental illness, early intervention and help seeking.
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To build individual skills for resilience and emotional wellbeing, including recognising strengths, making and maintaining healthy relationships, problem solving, help seeking and referral.
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To advance understanding of the arts as a vehicle to promote mental health and wellbeing.
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To build the skills and knowledge of arts, education, health and community workers for promoting mental health and wellbeing.
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To support schools and communities to integrate the Festival for Healthy Living Program with ongoing whole of school/whole of community planning and action.
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To evaluate and broadly disseminate best practice findings.