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Welcome to Australia’s largest mental health festival.

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Interior Anxious Poem by Evelyn Araluen

Interior Anxious Poem by Evelyn Araluen

The Big Anxiety Offical Festival Poet

The Big Anxiety Prize Lecture

The Big Anxiety Prize Lecture

Novelist and former mental health nurse Nathan Filer

2019 Program Highlights

Uti Kulintjaku

Uti Kulintjaku

The Empathy Clinic

The Empathy Clinic

Art After Hours

Art After Hours

M A N I C

M A N I C

Edge of the Present

Edge of the Present

Daughters

Daughters

Nathan Filer

Nathan Filer

These Walls Could Talk

These Walls Could Talk

The Ageing Program

The Ageing Program

In Trouble

In Trouble

Full Program

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

The Course of Empathy App

The Course of Empathy App

The Big Anxiety Podcast Series

The Big Anxiety Podcast Series

Conference and Talks

Anxiety, Culture and The Future Conference

Anxiety, Culture and The Future Conference

RENATA SALECL: ON ANXIETY – IGNORANCE IN TIMES OF SOCIAL CHANGE

RENATA SALECL: ON ANXIETY – IGNORANCE IN TIMES OF SOCIAL CHANGE

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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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