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Mood Experiments

How do environments affect our mood? Where high-tech meets mindfulness, the Mood Experiments program combines art + science + people to explore interactions within experimental mood labs, state-of-the-art responsive environments and multi-sensory rooms, as well as the simple, low-fi pleasures of meditation and sitting quietly.

Mood Experiments take place in the EPICentre (Expanded Perception and Interaction Centre), the world’s highest resolution 3D immersive cinema, the National Facility for Human Robot Interaction and the Mobile Mood Lab, a converted ambulance.

re/pair
Mood Experiments 8 Nov 2017 — 10 Nov 2017
10:00 am — 5:00 pm
Enlivenment
Mood Experiments / Power & Institutions 9 Nov 2017
7:00 pm — 9:00 pm
Deep VR
Mood Experiments 20 Sep 2017 — 28 Sep 2017
6:00 pm — 9:00 pm
The Big Anxiety Launch Party
Awkward Conversations / Lived Experiences / Mood Experiments / Neurodiverse-City / Power & Institutions 20 Sep 2017
6:00 pm — 9:00 pm
Anxiety and Young People
Awkward Conversations / Mood Experiments 10 Oct 2017
12:30 pm — 1:30 pm
Snoösphere
Mood Experiments / Neurodiverse-City 20 Sep 2017 — 11 Nov 2017
10:00 am — 5:00 pm
Mobile Mood Lab
Mood Experiments 20 Sep 2017 — 11 Nov 2017
Nerve Centre Festival Hub
Lived Experiences / Mood Experiments / Power & Institutions 20 Sep 2017 — 11 Nov 2017
10:00 am — 5:00 pm
After Dark
Awkward Conversations / Lived Experiences / Mood Experiments / Neurodiverse-City / Power & Institutions 28 Sep 2017
5:30 pm — 9:00 pm
Virtual Reality
Mood Experiments 12 Oct 2017 — 21 Oct 2017
12:00 pm — 8:00 pm
Art in Mind
Mood Experiments 6 Oct 2017 — 27 Oct 2017
Neural Knitworks
Mood Experiments 22 Sep 2017 — 21 Oct 2017
Art and Nature: Mindfulness Drawing
Mood Experiments 8 Oct 2017 — 22 Oct 2017
10:00 am — 1:00 pm
Art and Nature: Antidotes to Anxiety
Mood Experiments 20 Sep 2017 — 14 Oct 2017
10:00 am — 5:00 pm
e-Motion
Mood Experiments 20 Sep 2017
Sitting the City
Mood Experiments 14 Oct 2017 — 15 Oct 2017
10:00 am — 3:00 pm
Catch The Tiger
Mood Experiments 20 Sep 2017 — 21 Oct 2017
10:00 am — 5:00 pm
Mental Health Pods
Mood Experiments 20 Sep 2017 — 11 Nov 2017
10:00 am — 5:00 pm

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  • 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
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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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