Pynk Prysm has partnered up with Garden Cinema to curate an afternoon of healing, connection and art! Mindful Pictures will be 5 hours of workshops, designed especially for creatives to improve their mental wellbeing, intertwined with short films that deal with mental health. Not a creative but want to attend? Please join us! Mental health is important to every single human and learning tools to better deal with yourself and the world around you is beneficial to all! Come make some new friends, watch films from all around the world and pick up some new techniques on how to handle life with a bit more ease.
Each Session costs £12.50 and includes 30mins of short films and a 45min workshop. You can attend for all three sessions and get the full day experience at a discounted rate of £30 (the discount will be automatically applied when all three sessions are added to your basket.)
Films Screening:
Thus they spoke
Documentary director Manni revisits her old lover in Chengdu. The lover's disappearance and a young man's appearance make this visit intricate. When she turns off her camera, how would they face each other towards their intertwined past? In the hopeless night, they share pains and joys together.
Dir. Yash Zhang | China | 2021 | 14:21
A dose of Nature
A deep exploration into what it means to live with chronic pain and not being heard, opening up to the invisible but powerful bond humans have with the natural world. (Documentary)
Dir. Chiara Brambilla | United Kingdom | 2023 | 10:30
Stiff upper lip
In a launderette late at night, a schoolboy finds a man sobbing alone beside his dryer.
Dir. Dylan Friese-Greene | United Kingdom | 2022 | 5:14
Workshop - 45min
Leader: Industry Minds (Lead by Scarlett Maltman)
About: Industry Minds is an award-winning and industry leading mental health charity for the creative arts.
Breakdown:The stories we tell ourselves.
Why do some people seem to deal positively with the stresses of a career as a creative while others find themselves struggling with poor mental health?
Scarlett of Industry Minds will explore that question and offer tools and techniques to help quieten our inner critic and set us on a path of self care and self worth.