Mental Ideas has been working with the phenomenal Resolve Foundation on their 2022 fellowship program ...
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Transference has received over 18M views on YouTube! According to director and star Raffaello DeGruttola, ...
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Mentalist Sadie Kaye's bipolar Rant was published in the South China Morning Post's Post Magazine ...
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The submissions deadline for the 2022 Proverse Prize and Proverse Poetry Prize for writing previously ...
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Mental Ideas was inspired attending the Bipolar Ambition Art Exhibition at HKU last week featuring ...
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The International Proverse Prize for book-length works of fiction and 2022 Proverse Poetry Prize (Single ...
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Join our friends at Proverse Publishing for the 2022 Virtual Proverse Spring Reception on Thursday, ...
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Mental Ideas LOVES this short film by one of our ambassadors Mat Ricardo; showman and ...
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The psychological drama feature film Mental Ideas helped co-produce has received over 8.5M views on ...
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Congratulations to our ambassador Raffaello Degruttola for directing the multi award-winning indie film, Little Boxes! ...
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Submissions are open until April 21, 2022 for women poets, writers and artists to submit ...
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Ania Epul is an 18-year-old writer studying at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Her short ...
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Congratulations to our awesome ambassador Simone Lahbib! She won the awards for 'Best First-Time Director' ...
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Price's Price is set in a time and place - Hong Kong in the 1960s ...
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Thanks to the Cinemonic Entertainment Core in LA for selecting The Depressed Comedian episode of ...
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Mental Ideas is looking forward to attending Proverse Publishing's Autumn Reception at the Helena May ...
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Mental Ideas had a blast at the 2021 Hong Kong International Literary Festival, which this ...
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Submissions for our inaugural Hong Kong International Mental Health Film Festival are open! New York ...
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Larry Feign, guest in The Depressed Comedian episode of our Mental Ideas Podcast (clip of ...
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Congratulations to our ambassador Rebecca Dandridge-Walker. Her sketch, Delusion, has been breaking the internet since ...
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Another lovely accolade from our friends in the migrant community: Bethune House Migrant Women's Refuge ...
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Dark skies. Back pain. Heavy bags of salt crystals dissolving in the gutter. These are ...
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You can now watch Transference on YouTube, where it has already cruised to 2.2M Views!!! ...
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Home Kong Kitchen has been awarded a Happy Homes Award by the Mission For Migrant ...
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Mentalist Sadie Kaye will be among the poets reading their work that was recently published ...
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Series 2 of our AIB-nominated Mental Ideas Oddcast will be back on the air @ ...
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Home Kong Kitchen has been baking a difference to feed Hong Kong’s homeless, migrants in ...
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Mentalist Dan Davies offers readers humor, inspiration and perspiration in The Rantings of a Madman ...
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So….. this was our Lunar New Year! How was yours? Home Kong Kitchen‘s INCREDIBLE, DYNAMIC ...
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Thanks to the South China Morning Post for this illuminating article by Anthea Rowan comparing ...
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Rebecca Dandridge-Walker is a self-taught artist from Camden, London. After specializing in pottery, she started ...
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The Year of The Ox is almost upon us and to celebrate Home Kong Kitchen ...
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Wishing you all a brighter, bolder, inspired 2021! "Walk with hope and purpose into the ...
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Our extraordinary ambassador Mat Ricardo vlogs his first month on antidepressants. Mat is a legend ...
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HO HO HOme Kong Kitchen more than trebled its goal of making and distributing 100 ...
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Mental Ideas Podcaster Sadie Kaye was at the AIBs... kind of... My virtual awards date ...
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Transference has been selected by 3 more European film festivals: the European Cinema Festival, the ...
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For 26 year old bipolar artist Juliana Kung, art is a way of connecting with ...
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Wow – we are BLOWN AWAY by the incredible generosity of our rapidly expanding team ...
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"I am a survivor – so far. Not so much because of being trapped at ...
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Transference will be globally released by 1091 Pictures Nov 10! Mental Ideas is so proud ...
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Thanks to the SCMP for publishing this short read about our Home Kong Kitchen initiative ...
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Mentalist Philippe Joly's powerful short film about fighting back NOT TODAY has been selected for ...
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The Association for International Broadcasting have published their shortlist for the 2020 AIB Awards – ...
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Transference: A Bipolar Love Story has been officially selected by The Hague Global Cinema Festival! ...
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To mark #2020 World Suicide Prevention Day, Mental Ideas is proud to premiere short film ...
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Adam House, a US combat veteran with PTSD moved to Thailand to train as a ...
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With most of our planned summer projects postponed, Mental Ideas has been on a roll ...
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This is the last episode of the season so DON'T MISS IT!!! With new material ...
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Transference: A Bipolar Love Story received a Special Jury Mention in the Narrative Feature category ...
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On today's show, Sadie Kaye talks dirty. Great big wads of dirty cash! You can't ...
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First chance to see Transference: A Bipolar Love Story at the New York Socially Relevant ...
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Another win for Transference: A Bipolar Love Story - this time the Zoroaster Award at ...
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In this week's episode, Sadie Kaye coins a new catchphrase courtesy of inspirational wellness entrepreneur ...
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Showman Mat Ricardo reminisces about the time he was starting out as a street performer ...
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Transference: A Bipolar Love Story has just been announced the winner of Best Drama Feature ...
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Brace yourselves for another “slightly strange” (yeah…) episode of our Mental Ideas Podcast strand of ...
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Virtual Reality dance-maker Eugenia Kim joins host Sadie Kaye and explains how her bipolar disorder ...
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Check out this first cut of short film Intuition, directed by filmmaker, actor and Mental ...
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Writer Unblocked showcases original short stories and spoken word to unlock and unblock Hong Kong’s ...
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A deadly podcast about Death by Anxious Showman Mat Ricardo is poignantly paired with American ...
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Rebecca Dandridge-Walker has been beating the UK lockdown blues by experimenting with portraiture. Her lockdown ...
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Here’s the joke. The joke is that the way you’re probably feeling now – washing ...
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Mental Ideas Podcast host Sadie Kaye’s got a criminal record as long as your arm, ...
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Psychopathic actor and entrepreneur Philippe Joly attempts to explain why psychopaths make such great neighbors, ...
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One type of podcast guest that’s proved easy to secure in the midst of the ...
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Transference: A Bipolar Love Story has been offered distribution by New York's 1091 Pictures. Mental ...
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Episode 2 of our Mental Ideas Podcast broadcasted last Thursday (April 9, 2020) on RTHK ...
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Episode 1 of our Mental Ideas Podcast launched on RTHK Radio 3 last Thursday (April ...
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Even though the chance of any festival happening this year seems pretty remote at present ...
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AMAZING news just in from New York! Mental Ideas' first feature film Transference: A Bipolar ...
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Brexit may be "done", but the Norway Option is still readily available - thanks to ...
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Mental Ideas is honored to have been invited to attend the 2020 NIFA Awards in ...
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Mental Ideas is collaborating with Contro Vento Films on director Raffaello Degruttola's latest short film ...
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The inaugural NIFA Awards (National Independent Film Association, USA) were hosted by Dan Davies at ...
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In honor of #worldmentalhealthday, I wanted to share my completed illustrative series of paintings that ...
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Meet our newest recruit and Resident Artist Param Vibe Mirpuri! Param Vibe is a dancer, ...
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Mental Artists Charlotte Farhan, Jade Bryant and Shawn Coss have created their own Inktober prompts ...
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Filmmakers Ilze Millere and Carl Bradshaw of Elementi Media are producing their first feature film ...
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Mental Ideas ambassador Eugenia Kim is holding an event in Hong Kong from Oct 3-6 ...
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Mental Ideas sat down with artist Shawn Coss to discuss his often controversial artistic depiction ...
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An honor for Contro Vento Films, director Raffaello Degruttola and the cast & crew of ...
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Mental Ideas is proud to have co-produced Contro Vento Films' film Transference: A Bipolar Love ...
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That Mat Ricardo is a dark horse! As one of our ambassadors, we're in touch ...
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As Bad As It Gets airs on RTHK Radio 3 this coming Sat (July 13, ...
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Our second doc for RTHK broadcasted SAT JULY 13, 2019 at 8.30 HKT! For those ...
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ExperiMENTAL is our bold new art project and photography exhibition. We've commissioned 10 pro photographers ...
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Mental Ideas is working with filmmaker and Mental Ideas ambassador Raffaello Degruttola on co-producing a ...
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Mental Ideas is producing a series of short films depicting different mental health conditions through ...
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The Mental Ideas Podcast is a weekly program in which filmmaker and RTHK presenter Sadie ...
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Mental Ideas uses the arts and the media to engage and explain mental health in ...
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Joshua Walters was born in Berkeley, California. In 2001, while attending the San Francisco School ...
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Mental Ideas Ambassador and artist-activist Jade Bryant uses art as self-therapy and inspires others to ...
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Art saved my life. Not figuratively, but literally. I was at the end of the ...
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Mental Ideas discovers, nurtures and champions new talent from Hong Kong and around the world ...
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Work by our phenomenal talent pool of artists, writers, filmmakers, ambassadors, poets, musicians, performers, social ...
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It's not always easy to capture the seriousness of conditions such as obsessive compulsive disorder ...
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Congratulations to filmmaker Raffaello DeGruttola for directing and delivering an understated acting masterclass in this ...
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I'm a believer that anything can be funny. There's nothing that you can't make a ...
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Mental Ideas produces and delivers many different kinds of events, including exhibitions for our most ...
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Transference was one of the first films playing at the 2021 Arizona International Film Festival ...
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RTHK have just launched their annual short story completion, Hong Kong's Top Story! The theme ...
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The first in a month-long series of poetry readings by authors and poets published in ...
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We can’t believe we're writing this… RIP Reuben M Tuck. Truly one of the funniest, ...
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This harrowing short film about loss, grief and guilt by Mental Ideas Director and Ambassador ...
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Trigger warning - Mental health, depression, talk of the outside world. Seriously – you don’t ...
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Filmmaker and Mental Ideas Director & Ambassador Philippe Joly has set himself the quarantine challenge ...
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The Proverse Prize is an annual international literary competition for unpublished book-length works of fiction, ...
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Of all the powerful and poignant posts we've read about the #BlackLivesMatter protests and movement ...
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Following a relatively smooth (considering the backdrop!) launch of the Mental Ideas Podcast as a ...
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RTHK Radio 3 have launched their annual English Poetry Competition! Whether you're an experienced poet ...
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Mental Ideas wants to publish your Lockdown Love Stories! The stories could be factual or ...
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Mental Ideas Ambassador Mat Ricardo has started his own web TV channel, Lockdown TV, broadcasting ...
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Episode 1 of our Mental Ideas Podcast lifts off THIS THURSDAY (April 2, 2020) as ...
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The Hong Kong Mental Health Film Festival (@HKMHFF) provides a platform for innovative and ingenious ...
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After receiving a surge of intriguing podcast submissions, Mental Ideas intends to run an annual ...
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I’ve talked before about how comforting I find certain places. How when I’m on stage, ...
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Transference: A Bipolar Love Story‘s world premiere at the New York Socially Relevant Film Festival ...
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Our incredible ambassador Dan Davies is currently starring in Nollywood box office smash A Trip ...
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A special screening of our ambassador Raffaello Degruttola's BIFA-nominated comedy film FLIM The Movie plus ...
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American poet, artist, musician and mental health campaigner Laura Konowal writes about her ongoing struggles ...
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I created this piece to signify how technology creates information overload and thus placed the ...
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Jade Bryant is a prodigiously talented young artist from Devon, UK, and Mental Ideas ambassador ...
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Quadratura is an experimental short film by Elementi Media about visiting your life's memories and ...
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Mental Ideas took part in a panel discussion to mark 2019 World Mental Health Day ...
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Congratulations to our ambassador & film director Raffaello DeGruttola! His experiMENTAL short film has reached ...
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Mental Ideas' globetrotting Resident Photographer Enrique ('Ricky') Sadiosa has spent 5 years traveling the world ...
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Ricky Sadiosa is a photographer and documentary filmmaker. Originally from the Philippines, he's been based ...
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Do you ever stare at your kid in disbelief and ask questions like: Why does ...
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Sexual violence is not prejudice. It can happen to anyone, inflicting immediate and lasting damage ...
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I have a list in my head, constantly updated, of favourite places to sit. It's ...
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Mental Ideas is blessed to have the beautiful, brave and multi-talented Simone Lahbib as one ...
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Thanks to Laurence Fuller (Road To The Well, Paint It Red) for sharing with us ...
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A time comes in your life when you finally get it... When in the midst ...
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Mental Idealist Philippe Joly received coverage in the SCMP this week talking about Bruce Lee's ...
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After eight months of working on the production of this film, I am proud to ...
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American-born cartoonist and author Larry Feign is an award-winning cartoonist, artist and writer, best known ...
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Mental Ideas Ambassador Raffaello DeGruttola gets hustled by Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson on a ...
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Digital healthcare is emerging as an attractive alternative to mental health treatment, with an increasing ...
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Eugenia Kim is a PhD student, originally from the USA, who's been living in Hong ...
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The Welsh industrial town of Port Talbot, famed for its steelworks, could become a destination ...
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The Aspect of Bipolar That Led to Being Wrongfully Arrested on a Plane…Twice! A turbulent ...
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A chance to view Mental Ideas Ambassador Mat Ricardo's insightful and entertaining TEDX podcast, 'Embracing ...
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A look back at some of the most catastrophic selfie fails in modern memory... As ...
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Day-glo yellow vests are an indelible symbol of the “gilets jaunes” protests that have gripped ...
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Thanks to Hong Kong Buzz for publishing this interview about MENTAL IDEAS! Caffeine Buzz with ...
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TV presenter and author James McIntosh combats his depression by knitting and nibbling his way ...
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Will Pullen was raised in Hong Kong, before moving to London. He's now a BACP ...
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Mat Ricardo hits back at the Peep Show star's attack on street performers. And he ...
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To celebrate International Day of Unplugging, a 24-hour global respite from technology, Mental Ideas will ...
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The choreographer and artist Alexandra Pirici likens her work to a transmission whose precise message ...
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Suicide is a decision so impetuous that I don’t think it even qualifies as a ...
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One of the highlights of our inaugural Mental Ideas Film Festival is guaranteed to be ...
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Charlotte Farhan is an artist, illustrator, writer, activist and Mental Ideas Ambassador. She's co-founder and ...
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Owen Fitzpatrick is Mental Ideas' globetrotting psychologist from Dublin. He has travelled to more than ...
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Ambassador and showman Mat Ricardo is guest speaking at an event at the National Gallery ...
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95% of us view our dogs like family and it’s not hard to see why ...
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Mental Ideas wants your original recipes, provocative theories and entertaining stories of bold culinary experimentation ...
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Entrepreneur and restaurateur Ajay Relan is the LA-based brains behind #HashtagLunchbag, the initiative that encourages ...
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SHUSH! We’ve compiled a library of noisy op-eds and controversial articles on mental health from ...
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The annual Mental Ideas Awards reward and recognize individual social entrepreneurs and non-profit organizations offering ...
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Jade Bryant is a talented young artist and Mental Ideas Ambassador from Devon, UK. She ...
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The Score... There are so many love songs. So many artists, so many writers and ...
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The irreverent sequel to Sadie Kaye's 2015 documentary Bipolar Express will air on RTHK Radio ...
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The night we filmed No Way Home – Stop the Traffick on the streets of ...
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Meet Mat Ricardo: Mental Ideas Ambassador & Showman Extraordinaire! Fast Hands. Smart Mouth. Nice Suit ...
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Ever since I was a teenager, for periods of months at a time, I have ...
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The trouble with creative work: Sometimes by the time people catch on to what's valuable ...
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Mental Ideas is redesigning the humble egg cup! Winner wins a trophy, a carton of ...
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Mental Ideas provides access to arts, film and media opportunities for artists coping with “invisible” ...
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Good Is The New Cool is a movement formed to mobilize and inspire individuals who ...
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Serena Guen is the founder and CEO of Suitcase Group. Clerkenwell Boy is a strategy ...
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This week I've been mostly feeling empty. All my energy bars depleted. Desperately in need ...
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Bipolar Hong Kong is Hong Kong’s first peer-led bipolar support group. Founded by Sadie Kaye ...
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Sometimes getting started is the hardest thing... Living in the suburb of Clearwater Bay, I ...
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Bipolar Express is an irreverent 30-minute roller coaster through the euphoric highs and debilitating lows ...
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We accept original artwork, op-eds, short stories (fiction), poetry, music, humour, podcasts and films around ...
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Like many of us, I felt the bruises of my mental health issues before I ...
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