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PERCEPTION(S) is a charity event conceived by a group of 1st-year students in the Master in Performing Arts Production and Financing and Music Management at IESA arts&culture. This project is sponsored by the association Adelphes, an association dedicated to dance, which places feminism at the heart of its artistic approach. Its ambition is to create dance performances with people with disabilities, to deploy mediation actions around inclusive dance and to organize one-off events aimed at raising audience awareness of disability. Various artistic, preventive and playful events took place during this day aimed at raising awareness of mental illness so that everyone can understand these little-known conditions in a spirit of sharing, exchange and kindness. All proceeds from this event will be donated to the association Positive Minders, a partner of the festival.
OBJECTIVES
We want to use art, through a festive event, to raise public awareness of mental illness. These invisible disorders affect a large part of the population (about 20%) and can take different forms and expressions such as anxiety, bipolar disorder, depression, schizophrenia… By altering perception and cognition, the affected person suffers a real handicap in their social, personal and professional life. Our generation has been strongly affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, particularly from the standpoint of mental health, so taking up the subject of mental disorders seemed relevant to us. In this way, we can address an audience that resembles us, namely the 18-35 age group, directly affected but little aware of these issues. For these reasons, we are happy and proud to be able to champion and raise funds for this cause.
Raise awareness: of the public about mental illness, which is still too little known and understood
Help: an association by organizing a charity event
Enjoy: a friendly and festive day.
PositiveMinders is an internationally active, publicly recognized organization whose mission is to remove the barriers to implementing early and inclusive care for all mental illnesses and to make this care accessible to everyone who is suffering, with the aim of facilitating their recovery. This association works with care organizations, patient associations, people affected by mental disorders, ambassadors, health professionals, players from various fields, and different companies. Through these different entities, PositiveMinders advocates caring treatment, complementarity and equality, strong values that are embodied in each of their actions.
