Scottish Mental Health Art Festival
The Scottish Mental Health Art Festival is an annual event that seeks to explore how the arts can help to prevent mental health problems and support people to live mentally healthier lives. It is also used as a format to raise awareness and reduce the stigma around mental health and how that might look. Each year has a different theme to challenge both the artist and the viewer.
Website: Visit the Scottish Mental Health Art Festival Website
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For more information about the festival and this years activities head to their website
The 2025 festival theme, Comfort and Disturb, references the famous Cesar A Cruz quote about art as activism, the idea that “art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable”. It is a simple expression of the power of art both to challenge and to console, often having a transformative effect on people and societies. Please click on the link below to read more.
This years festival is 20 October – 9 November 2025
