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On Saturday 8^th September we brought our Creative Minds hubs together, YMCA Swansea, Andrew Kent Music Academy, Georgetown Youth Club and Pentalk Lab Newport. We held the event at a fantastic night club Warehouse 54 in Newport- of course no alcohol was served! The venue was fantastic with funky areas over 3 floors including an open air terrace, and yes it stayed dry!

The day started off with young people doing activities around perceptions of mental health, we discussed how comfortable we are being honest about mental health in society- which is easier to admit- I had to go to the doctors or I had to go and see mental health professional, there were some really interesting points and a lot of difference of opinion but everyone was respectful and supportive of each other which was amazing to see!
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We moved on to scenarios- would you tell your tinder match on the first date that you have mental health problems? Again, a great debate and some thought-provoking points. My favourite activity was the word activity, what words are positive and which are negative. As serious as this sounds and was taken, we still had a lot of banter with this and decided it depended who you were talking to and in what context we were using the word in. We laughed a lot and this certainly broke the ice between all the hubs. Finally we made chatterboxes that encouraged young people to do something by the end of the day such as message a friend you haven’t spoken to in while, or asking someone if they are okay. It was a task to get everyone’s chatter boxes folded and again the room was erupted with laughed by mistaken folds, rips and general confusion- but we got there in the end and everyone took home a “We Can We Will” chatter box!
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After the break we moved on to the mental health workshops which were run by Gofal. There were 3 workshops;

• The impact of poor mental health
• Improving mental health
• Identifying poor mental health and triggers

All young people attended each workshop for 30 mins and after lunch produced a creative piece about what they had learnt from the day. Before I get to that- LUNCH! OH MY, lunch was amazing! There was jerk chicken wings, kebabs and wraps (if you liked the spice you were in for a treat) we had chicken mayo wraps, dumplings, halloumi, Caribbean bites, upside down pineapple cake and for the healthier option there was a colourful salad. A massive thank you has to go out to the Irish Shack for putting this all together- absolutely nothing went to waste, young people took plates home and took what was left around Newport to hand out to the homeless.
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Anyway back to work, and young people chose which creative workshop they wanted to join- song writing delivered by YMCA Swansea, drama delivered by Georgetown and Cypher delivered by Newport. After being creative for an hour the groups were brought back together to show off what they had created and WOW what was created was amazing! Check out the videos for full showcase! Cypher workshop rapped about mental health and family support, song writing wrote a powerful song about mental health and drama produced two amazingly powerful scenes about coping with mental health!

By the end of the day new friendships has formed between the most unlikely young people, everyone described the day as refreshing and safe to be themselves without being judged and that they were excited to become even more creative over the next year to help with their own mental health.
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The young people who attend the day were of all ages, backgrounds, ethnicities and genders and all had one thing in common- to get rid of the stigma around mental health in young people by using creative arts. The young people working on this project are phenomenal and at Youth Cymru we are so excited to see what they create between now and June 2019.
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Lizzy Fauvel

Project & Youth Work Coordinator

A massive thank you to Iffy Harris, the owner of Warehouse 54 for letting us use the venue and to Irie Shack for the amazing food and to all maintenance and bar staff who helped put the day together.  To the amazing youth workers that came along to support and delivered workshops and of course to the amazing young people who gave up their Saturday to take part in the creative minds project!

Bring on the rest of the year!

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