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Welcome to Australia’s largest mental health festival.

2019 Videos

Festival Highlights

The Empathy Clinic

These Walls Could Talk

News

Course of Empathy App

Course of Empathy App

Test the idea that empathy skills are tools, that can be cultivated by anyone.

The Big Anxiety Feedback Survey

The Big Anxiety Feedback Survey

We would like to hear about your experience of our events!

2019 Highlights

Uti Kulintjaku

Uti Kulintjaku

The Empathy Clinic

The Empathy Clinic

The Ageing Program

The Ageing Program

The Razz - Sandra Pankhurst

The Razz - Sandra Pankhurst

Edge of the Present

Edge of the Present

Nosferatu - Javier Tellez

Nosferatu - Javier Tellez

thom roberts

thom roberts

Debra Keenahan

Debra Keenahan

r e a & Judy Atkinson

r e a & Judy Atkinson

Ilawanti Ungkutjuru Ken and Naomi Kantjuriny

Ilawanti Ungkutjuru Ken and Naomi Kantjuriny

Wart & Phil Downing

Wart & Phil Downing

2019 Past Highlights

The S-Word with Lifeline

The S-Word with Lifeline

Daughters

Daughters

Anxiety, Culture and The Future Conference

Anxiety, Culture and The Future Conference

Art After Hours

Art After Hours

Nathan Filer

Nathan Filer

These Walls Could Talk

These Walls Could Talk

Daniel Regan

Daniel Regan

John A Douglas & Stella Topaz

John A Douglas & Stella Topaz

M A N I C

M A N I C

Awkward Conversations

Awkward Conversations

2019 Ambassadors

John A Douglas

John A Douglas

Sonakshi Babbar

Sonakshi Babbar

Sandra Pankhurst

Sandra Pankhurst

Will Centurian

Will Centurian

Nat's What I Reckon

Nat's What I Reckon

Evelyn Araluen

Evelyn Araluen

Honor Eastly

Honor Eastly

Omar Sakr

Omar Sakr

Ambassador Bios

Feedback Survey and e-Visitor Book

Feedback Survey

Feedback Survey

E-Visitor Book

E-Visitor Book

Program Extras

Interior Anxious Poem by Evelyn Araluen

Interior Anxious Poem by Evelyn Araluen

The Big Anxiety Podcast Series

The Big Anxiety Podcast Series

Twitter Feed

  • RT @Jill_TBA: Thrilled to see @ProjectArtWorks on the Jarman prize shortlist - brilliant, radical, neurodiverse rethinking of care - feat… Time ago 35 Days via Twitter Web App
  • RT @kreauniversity: You are invited to dialogue sans borders. Krea University presents a compelling conversation on changing face of social… Time ago 44 Days via Twitter Web App
  • RT @Jill_TBA: Looking forward to talking about how arts r fundamental to mental health in this @Create_NSW webinar w @KBoydell from @blackd… Time ago 80 Days via Twitter Web App
  • RT @Jill_TBA: Excited to receive @SuicidePrevAU grant to take this forward! VR experience developed in partnership with people with lived e… Time ago 87 Days via Twitter Web App

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E-Visitor Book

  • The Parragirls immersive experience at the Big Anxiety EPICentre was a moving and thought-provoking presentation of the terrible abuse perpetrated against children at the Parramatta Girls Home. Vulnerable children who were the victims of abuse were further abused when they complained or disclosed their treatment. I hope that the telling of... Tanya Plibersek MP
  • Really interesting looking festival... will you be pulling this off again in 2018? If so, please post potential dates for us folks as far away as San Francisco. Also, I'd like to instigate a "free to fail" play zone, spanning the huge spectrum of play. Looking forward to hearing... Nicole
  • Wonderful, challenging, inspiring, soothing, confronting, all at the same time. A very important subject and a great forum in the arts to start important discussions.Providing a creative forum for issues that affect everyone.Thank you! Nicole Balestro
  • Wonderful exhibitions thank you - especially the sensory exhibit Matthew Arnold-Hall
  • The snoosphere is AMAZING!!! Natasha
  • We visited Sydney this last weekend (27-29 October) from Brisbane, specifically to experience various events at the Big Anxiety festival. Wow we had such a eye opening, stimulating experience. The play Grace under Pressure (Seymour Centre) was brilliant and a very real insight into the health sector (although many of... debbie broadbent & peter ferreira
  • We love this idea and program. Thank you great for my daughters anxiety the breathing lungs in soosophere Nicole
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  • as teaching art and the creative loses it value in public secondary schools and very few well being programs are thoroughly implemented it is good to see events like this take place. thanks Mary
  • Thank you for sharing your stories. I am sorry you had those horrible experiences. Rachel

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