The annual Proverse Autumn Reception takes place at the Helena May this coming Thursday! Tickets ...

Charles Tang is a Chinese painter who works with different water-based mediums to examine the ...

Mental Ideas has been going wobbly for 3D Jelly Art enthusiast Siamy Tan‘s incredible jelly ...

Mental Ideas has been working with the phenomenal Resolve Foundation on their 2022 fellowship program ...

Transference has received over 19M views on YouTube! According to director and star Raffaello DeGruttola, ...

Mentalist Sadie Kaye's bipolar Rant was published in the South China Morning Post's Post Magazine ...

The submissions deadline for the 2022 Proverse Prize and Proverse Poetry Prize for writing previously ...

Mental Ideas was inspired attending the Bipolar Ambition Art Exhibition at HKU last week featuring ...

Join our friends at Proverse Publishing for the 2022 Virtual Proverse Spring Reception on Thursday, ...

Mental Ideas LOVES this short film by one of our ambassadors Mat Ricardo; showman and ...

The psychological drama feature film Mental Ideas helped co-produce has received over 8.5M views on ...

Congratulations to our ambassador Raffaello Degruttola for directing the multi award-winning indie film, Little Boxes! ...

Submissions are open until April 21, 2022 for women poets, writers and artists to submit ...

Ania Epul is an 18-year-old writer studying at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Her short ...

Congratulations to our awesome ambassador Simone Lahbib! She won the awards for 'Best First-Time Director' ...

Price's Price is set in a time and place - Hong Kong in the 1960s ...

Thanks to the Cinemonic Entertainment Core in LA for selecting The Depressed Comedian episode of ...

Mental Ideas is looking forward to attending Proverse Publishing's Autumn Reception at the Helena May ...

Mental Ideas had a blast at the 2021 Hong Kong International Literary Festival, which this ...

Submissions for our inaugural Hong Kong International Mental Health Film Festival are open! New York ...

Larry Feign, guest in The Depressed Comedian episode of our Mental Ideas Podcast (clip of ...

Congratulations to our ambassador Rebecca Dandridge-Walker. Her sketch, Delusion, has been breaking the internet since ...

Another lovely accolade from our friends in the migrant community: Bethune House Migrant Women's Refuge ...

Dark skies. Back pain. Heavy bags of salt crystals dissolving in the gutter. These are ...

You can now watch Transference on YouTube, where it has already cruised to 2.2M Views!!! ...

Home Kong Kitchen has been awarded a Happy Homes Award by the Mission For Migrant ...

Mentalist Sadie Kaye will be among the poets reading their work that was recently published ...

Series 2 of our AIB-nominated Mental Ideas Oddcast will be back on the air @ ...

Home Kong Kitchen has been baking a difference to feed Hong Kong’s homeless, migrants in ...

Mentalist Dan Davies offers readers humor, inspiration and perspiration in The Rantings of a Madman ...

So….. this was our Lunar New Year! How was yours? Home Kong Kitchen‘s INCREDIBLE, DYNAMIC ...

Thanks to the South China Morning Post for this illuminating article by Anthea Rowan comparing ...

Rebecca Dandridge-Walker is a self-taught artist from Camden, London. After specializing in pottery, she started ...

The Year of The Ox is almost upon us and to celebrate Home Kong Kitchen ...

Wishing you all a brighter, bolder, inspired 2021! "Walk with hope and purpose into the ...

Our extraordinary ambassador Mat Ricardo vlogs his first month on antidepressants. Mat is a legend ...

HO HO HOme Kong Kitchen more than trebled its goal of making and distributing 100 ...

Mental Ideas Podcaster Sadie Kaye was at the AIBs... kind of... My virtual awards date ...

Transference has been selected by 3 more European film festivals: the European Cinema Festival, the ...

For 26 year old bipolar artist Juliana Kung, art is a way of connecting with ...

Wow – we are BLOWN AWAY by the incredible generosity of our rapidly expanding team ...

"I am a survivor – so far. Not so much because of being trapped at ...

Transference will be globally released by 1091 Pictures Nov 10! Mental Ideas is so proud ...

Thanks to the SCMP for publishing this short read about our Home Kong Kitchen initiative ...

Mentalist Philippe Joly's powerful short film about fighting back NOT TODAY has been selected for ...

The Association for International Broadcasting have published their shortlist for the 2020 AIB Awards – ...

Transference: A Bipolar Love Story has been officially selected by The Hague Global Cinema Festival! ...

To mark #2020 World Suicide Prevention Day, Mental Ideas is proud to premiere short film ...

Adam House, a US combat veteran with PTSD moved to Thailand to train as a ...

With most of our planned summer projects postponed, Mental Ideas has been on a roll ...

This is the last episode of the season so DON'T MISS IT!!! With new material ...

Transference: A Bipolar Love Story received a Special Jury Mention in the Narrative Feature category ...

On today's show, Sadie Kaye talks dirty. Great big wads of dirty cash! You can't ...

First chance to see Transference: A Bipolar Love Story at the New York Socially Relevant ...

Another win for Transference: A Bipolar Love Story - this time the Zoroaster Award at ...

In this week's episode on RTHK Radio 3, Sadie Kaye coins a new catchphrase courtesy ...

Showman Mat Ricardo reminisces about the time he was starting out as a street performer ...

Transference: A Bipolar Love Story has just been announced the winner of Best Drama Feature ...

Brace yourselves for another “slightly strange” (yeah…) episode of our Mental Ideas Podcast on RTHK ...

Virtual Reality dance-maker Eugenia Kim joins host Sadie Kaye and explains how her bipolar disorder has fueled her ...

Check out this first cut of short film Intuition, directed by filmmaker, actor and Mental ...

Writer Unblocked showcases original short stories and spoken word to unlock and unblock Hong Kong’s ...

A deadly podcast about Death by Anxious Showman Mat Ricardo is poignantly paired with American ...

Rebecca Dandridge-Walker has been beating the UK lockdown blues by experimenting with portraiture. Her lockdown ...

Here’s the joke. The joke is that the way you’re probably feeling now – washing ...

Mental Ideas Podcast host Sadie Kaye’s got a criminal record as long as your arm, ...

Psychopathic actor and entrepreneur Philippe Joly attempts to explain why psychopaths make such great neighbors, ...

One type of podcast guest that’s proved easy to secure in the midst of the ...

Transference: A Bipolar Love Story has been offered distribution by New York's 1091 Pictures. Mental ...

Episode 2 of our Mental Ideas Podcast broadcasted last Thursday (April 9) on RTHK Radio ...

Episode 1 of our Mental Ideas Podcast launched on RTHK Radio 3 last Thursday (April 2) ...

Even though the chance of any festival happening this year seems pretty remote at present ...

AMAZING news just in from New York! Mental Ideas' first feature film Transference: A Bipolar ...

Brexit may be "done", but the Norway Option is still readily available - thanks to ...

Mental Ideas is honored to have been invited to attend the 2020 NIFA Awards in ...

Mental Ideas is collaborating with Contro Vento Films on director Raffaello Degruttola's latest short film ...

The inaugural NIFA Awards (National Independent Film Association, USA) were hosted by Dan Davies at ...

In honor of #worldmentalhealthday, I wanted to share my completed illustrative series of paintings that ...

Meet our newest recruit and Resident Artist Param Vibe Mirpuri! Param Vibe is a dancer, ...

Mental Artists Charlotte Farhan, Jade Bryant and Shawn Coss have created their own Inktober prompts ...

Filmmakers Ilze Millere and Carl Bradshaw of Elementi Media are producing their first feature film ...

Mental Ideas ambassador Eugenia Kim is holding an event in Hong Kong from Oct 3-6 ...

Mental Ideas sat down with artist Shawn Coss to discuss his often controversial artistic depiction ...

An honor for Contro Vento Films, director Raffaello Degruttola and the cast & crew of ...

Mental Ideas is proud to have co-produced Contro Vento Films' film Transference: A Bipolar Love ...

That Mat Ricardo is a dark horse! As one of our ambassadors, we're in touch ...

As Bad As It Gets airs on RTHK Radio 3 this coming Sat (July 13) ...

Our second doc for RTHK broadcasted SAT JULY 13 at 8.30 HKT! For those of ...

ExperiMENTAL is our bold new art project and photography exhibition. We've commissioned 10 pro photographers ...

Mental Ideas is working with filmmaker and Mental Ideas ambassador Raffaello Degruttola on co-producing a ...

Mental Ideas is producing a series of short films depicting different mental health conditions through ...

The Mental Ideas Podcast is a weekly program in which filmmaker and RTHK presenter Sadie ...

'Mental Ideas utilises the arts and the media to engage and explain mental health in ...

Joshua Walters was born in Berkeley, California. In 2001, while attending the San Francisco School ...

Mental Ideas Ambassador and artist-activist Jade Bryant uses art as self-therapy and inspires others to ...

Art saved my life. Not figuratively, but literally. I was at the end of the ...

Mental Ideas discovers, nurtures and champions new talent from Hong Kong and around the world ...

Work by our phenomenal talent pool of artists, writers, filmmakers, ambassadors, poets, musicians, performers, social ...

It's not always easy to capture the seriousness of conditions such as obsessive compulsive disorder ...

Congratulations to filmmaker Raffaello DeGruttola for directing and delivering an understated acting masterclass in this ...

I'm a believer that anything can be funny. There's nothing that you can't make a ...

Mental Ideas produces and delivers many different kinds of events, including exhibitions for our most ...

The Hong Kong Women in Publishing Society are open for submissions of short stories (fiction ...

The International Proverse Prize for book-length works of fiction and 2022 Proverse Poetry Prize (Single ...

Transference was one of the first films playing at the 2021 Arizona International Film Festival ...

RTHK have just launched their annual short story completion, Hong Kong's Top Story! The theme ...

The first in a month-long series of poetry readings by authors and poets published in ...

We can’t believe we're writing this… RIP Reuben M Tuck. Truly one of the funniest, ...

This harrowing short film about loss, grief and guilt by Mental Ideas Director and Ambassador ...

Trigger warning - Mental health, depression, talk of the outside world. Seriously – you don’t ...

Filmmaker and Mental Ideas Director & Ambassador Philippe Joly has set himself the quarantine challenge ...

The Proverse Prize is an annual international literary competition for unpublished book-length works of fiction, ...

Of all the powerful and poignant posts we've read about the #BlackLivesMatter protests and movement ...

Following a relatively smooth (considering the backdrop!) launch of the Mental Ideas Podcast as a ...

RTHK Radio 3 have launched their annual English Poetry Competition! Whether you're an experienced poet ...

Mental Ideas wants to publish your Lockdown Love Stories! The stories could be factual or ...

Mental Ideas Ambassador Mat Ricardo has started his own web TV channel, Lockdown TV, broadcasting ...

Episode 1 of our Mental Ideas Podcast lifts off THIS THURSDAY (April 2, 2020) as ...

The Hong Kong Mental Health Film Festival (@HKMHFF) provides a platform for innovative and ingenious ...

After receiving a surge of intriguing podcast submissions, Mental Ideas intends to run an annual ...

I’ve talked before about how comforting I find certain places. How when I’m on stage, ...

Transference: A Bipolar Love Story‘s world premiere at the New York Socially Relevant Film Festival ...

Our incredible ambassador Dan Davies is currently starring in Nollywood box office smash A Trip ...

A special screening of our ambassador Raffaello Degruttola's BIFA-nominated comedy film FLIM The Movie plus ...

American poet, artist, musician and mental health campaigner Laura Konowal writes about her ongoing struggles ...

I created this piece to signify how technology creates information overload and thus placed the ...

Jade Bryant is a prodigiously talented young artist from Devon, UK, and Mental Ideas ambassador ...

Quadratura is an experimental short film by Elementi Media about visiting your life's memories and ...

Mental Ideas took part in a panel discussion to mark 2019 World Mental Health Day ...

Congratulations to our ambassador & film director Raffaello DeGruttola! His experiMENTAL short film has reached ...

Mental Ideas' globetrotting Resident Photographer Enrique ('Ricky') Sadiosa has spent 5 years traveling the world ...

Do you ever stare at your kid in disbelief and ask questions like: Why does ...

Sexual violence is not prejudice. It can happen to anyone, inflicting immediate and lasting damage ...

I have a list in my head, constantly updated, of favourite places to sit. It's ...

Mental Ideas is blessed to have the beautiful, brave and multi-talented Simone Lahbib as one ...

Thanks to Laurence Fuller (Road To The Well, Paint It Red) for sharing with us ...

A time comes in your life when you finally get it... When in the midst ...

Mental Idealist Philippe Joly received coverage in the SCMP this week talking about Bruce Lee's ...

After eight months of working on the production of this film, I am proud to ...

American-born cartoonist and author Larry Feign is an award-winning cartoonist, artist and writer, best known ...

Mental Ideas Ambassador Raffaello DeGruttola gets hustled by Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson on a ...

Digital healthcare is emerging as an attractive alternative to mental health treatment, with an increasing ...

Eugenia Kim is a PhD student, originally from the USA, who's been living in Hong ...

The Welsh industrial town of Port Talbot, famed for its steelworks, could become a destination ...

The Aspect of Bipolar That Led to Being Wrongfully Arrested on a Plane…Twice! A turbulent ...

A chance to view Mental Ideas Ambassador Mat Ricardo's insightful and entertaining TEDX podcast, 'Embracing ...

A look back at some of the most catastrophic selfie fails in modern memory... As ...

Day-glo yellow vests are an indelible symbol of the “gilets jaunes” protests that have gripped ...

Thanks to Hong Kong Buzz for publishing this interview about MENTAL IDEAS! Caffeine Buzz with ...

TV presenter and author James McIntosh combats his depression by knitting and nibbling his way ...

Will Pullen was raised in Hong Kong, before moving to London. He's now a BACP ...

Mat Ricardo hits back at the Peep Show star's attack on street performers. And he ...

To celebrate International Day of Unplugging, a 24-hour global respite from technology, Mental Ideas will ...

The choreographer and artist Alexandra Pirici likens her work to a transmission whose precise message ...

Suicide is a decision so impetuous that I don’t think it even qualifies as a ...

One of the highlights of our inaugural Mental Ideas Film Festival is guaranteed to be ...

Charlotte Farhan is an artist, illustrator, writer, activist and Mental Ideas Ambassador. She's co-founder and ...

Owen Fitzpatrick is Mental Ideas' globetrotting psychologist from Dublin. He has travelled to more than ...

Ambassador and showman Mat Ricardo is guest speaking at an event at the National Gallery ...

95% of us view our dogs like family and it’s not hard to see why ...

Mental Ideas wants your original recipes, provocative theories and entertaining stories of bold culinary experimentation ...

Entrepreneur and restaurateur Ajay Relan is the LA-based brains behind #HashtagLunchbag, the initiative that encourages ...

SHUSH! We’ve compiled a library of noisy op-eds and controversial articles on mental health from ...

The annual Mental Ideas Awards reward and recognize individual social entrepreneurs and non-profit organizations offering ...

Jade Bryant is a talented young artist and Mental Ideas Ambassador from Devon, UK. She ...

The Score... There are so many love songs. So many artists, so many writers and ...

The irreverent sequel to Sadie Kaye's 2015 documentary Bipolar Express will air on RTHK Radio ...

The night we filmed No Way Home – Stop the Traffick on the streets of ...

Meet Mat Ricardo: Mental Ideas Ambassador & Showman Extraordinaire! Fast Hands. Smart Mouth. Nice Suit ...

Ever since I was a teenager, for periods of months at a time, I have ...

The trouble with creative work: Sometimes by the time people catch on to what's valuable ...

Mental Ideas is redesigning the humble egg cup! Winner wins a trophy, a carton of ...

Mental Ideas provides access to arts, film and media opportunities for artists coping with “invisible” ...

Good Is The New Cool is a movement formed to mobilize and inspire individuals who ...

Serena Guen is the founder and CEO of Suitcase Group. Clerkenwell Boy is a strategy ...

This week I've been mostly feeling empty. All my energy bars depleted. Desperately in need ...

Bipolar Hong Kong is Hong Kong’s first peer-led bipolar support group. Founded by Sadie Kaye ...

Sometimes getting started is the hardest thing... Living in the suburb of Clearwater Bay, I ...

Bipolar Express is an irreverent 30-minute roller coaster through the euphoric highs and debilitating lows ...

We accept original artwork, op-eds, short stories (fiction), poetry, music, humour, podcasts and films around ...

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