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Mental Ideas utilizes the arts and the media to engage and explain mental health in daring and ingenious ways.
Jade Bryant Inktober Art Collection
In honor of #worldmentalhealthday, I wanted to share my completed illustrative series of paintings that ...
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Param Creates Vibe for Exploding Mental Health!
Meet our newest recruit and Resident Artist Param Vibe Mirpuri! Param Vibe is a dancer, ...
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Mental Ideas Collaborates with Elementi Media on Twisted Adult Fairytale!
When filmmakers Ilze Millere and Carl Bradshaw of Elementi Media contacted us to see if ...
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Lithium Hindsight 360: VR Dance Event Explodes Bipolar Disorder
Mental Ideas ambassador Eugenia Kim is holding an event in Hong Kong from Oct 3-6 ...
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Passion & Poison – Interview With Artist Shawn Coss
Mental Ideas sat down with artist Shawn Coss to discuss his often controversial artistic depiction ...
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Transference: A Film About Relationships & Mental Health – Nikolas Antoniades
An honor for Contro Vento Films, director Raffaello Degruttola and the cast & crew of ...
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WTF Is Wrong With My Kid??! Patricia Bush Explodes Dyspraxia
Do you ever stare at your kid in disbelief and ask questions like: Why does ...
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Transference: A Bipolar Love Story – First Screening in London
Mental Ideas is proud to have co-produced Contro Vento Films' film Transference: A Bipolar Love ...
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Clowns and Banana Skins – Mat Ricardo
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 Promo Trailer
As Bad As It Gets airs on RTHK Radio 3 this coming Sat (July 13, ...
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As Bad As It Gets Broadcasts on RTHK July 13!
Our latest doc for RTHK broadcasts SAT JULY 13, 2019 at 8.30! For those of ...
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ExperiMENTAL Exhibition
ExperiMENTAL is our bold new art project and photography exhibition. We've commissioned 10 pro photographers ...
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Transference: A Bipolar Love Story
Mental Ideas is working with filmmaker and Mental Ideas ambassador Raffaello Degruttola on co-producing a ...
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A Bipolar Love Story: Short
Mental Ideas is producing a series of short films depicting different mental health conditions through ...
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Mental Ideas Podcast
The Mental Ideas Podcast is a weekly podcast in which filmmaker and RTHK presenter Sadie ...
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Launching MENTAL IDEAS!
MENTAL IDEAS is a noisy, unashamedly provocative non-profit film and media platform using the arts ...
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Joshua Walters: Just Crazy Enough…
Joshua Walters was born in Berkeley, California. In 2001, while attending the San Francisco School ...
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Jade Bryant on Art as Self-Therapy
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 – Charlotte Farhan
Art saved my life. Not figuratively, but literally. I was at the end of the ...
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ExperiMENTAL Films
ExperiMENTAL Films discovers, nurtures and champions film talent from around the world. In order to ...
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Chaos Gallery
Work by our phenomenal talent pool of artists, writers, filmmakers, ambassadors, poets, musicians, performers, social ...
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Mental Disorders Depicted With Minimalist Posters by Graphic Designer Patrick Smith
It's not always easy to capture the seriousness of conditions such as obsessive compulsive disorder ...
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No Way Home – Stop the Traffick by Filmmaker Raffaello Degruttola
Congratulations to filmmaker Raffaello DeGruttola for directing and delivering an understated acting masterclass in this ...
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Can Comedy Erase Stigma? Mat Ricardo’s Latest Column!
I'm a believer that anything can be funny. There's nothing that you can't make a ...
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Exhibitions & Events
Mental Ideas produces and delivers many different kinds of events, including exhibitions for our most ...
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Too Much – Laura Konowal
Mental Ideas is excited to welcome artist, poet, musician and muse Laura Konowal as the ...
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A Hat-Trick of Nominations for Contro Vento & Mental Ideas
The inaugural NIFA Awards (National Independent Film Association, USA) were hosted by Dan Davies at the Film Forte in ...
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Information Overload – Param Vibe Mirpuri
I created this piece to signify how technology creates information overload and thus placed the ...
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Project Inktober
Mental Artists Charlotte Farhan, Jade Bryant and Shawn Coss have created their own Inktober prompts ...
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Sneak Peak at Jade Bryant’s Inktober Art Collection!
Jade Bryant is a prodigiously talented young artist from Devon, UK, and Mental Ideas ambassador ...
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Quadratura by Elementi Media
Quadratura is an experimental short film by Elementi Media about visiting your life's memories and ...
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Mental Ideas marks World Mental Health Day with HSBC & Mind HK
Mental Ideas creative director Sadie Kaye took part in a panel discussion to mark 2019 ...
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Awards Success for A Bipolar Love Story and No Way Home!
Congratulations to our ambassador & film director Raffaello DeGruttola! His experiMENTAL short film has reached ...
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Ricky Sadiosa Travels World in Footsteps of Philippine National Hero Dr. Jose Rizal
Mental Ideas' globetrotting Resident Photographer Enrique ('Ricky') Sadiosa has spent 5 years traveling the world ...
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Healing Hong Kong 香港康復
Mental Ideas is curating a mental health arts festival inspired by the recent spike in ...
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HK Protests in Pictures – Ricky Sadiosa
Ricky Sadiosa is a photographer and documentary filmmaker. Originally from the Philippines, he's been based ...
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Art To End The Silence On Sexual Violence – Charlotte Farhan
Sexual violence is not prejudice. It can happen to anyone, inflicting immediate and lasting damage ...
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Mat Ricardo’s Favorite Places to Sit
I have a list in my head, constantly updated, of favourite places to sit. It's ...
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Suicide Awareness Month
Mental Ideas is blessed to have the beautiful, brave and multi-talented Simone Lahbib as one ...
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**Award-Winning** Short Film | Echoes of You | Omeleto
After a brilliant run at some of the top film festivals in California, Echoes of ...
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The Awakening – Sam Brennan
A time comes in your life when you finally get it... When in the midst ...
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Ambassador Philippe Joly in the SCMP
Mental Idealist Philippe Joly received coverage in the SCMP this week talking about Bruce Lee's ...
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Stigma Shatters (But Mental Health Matters) by Filmmaker Allison Combo
After eight months of working on the production of this film, I am proud to ...
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Award-Winning Cartoonist Larry Feign signs up to Mental Ideas Podcast!
American-born cartoonist and author Larry Feign is an award-winning cartoonist, artist and writer, best known ...
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Ambassador Raff Gets Hustled by Two Unknown Actresses
Mental Ideas Ambassador Raffaello DeGruttola gets hustled by Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson on a ...
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Can Robots Solve the Mental Health Crisis?
Digital healthcare is emerging as an attractive alternative to mental health treatment, with an increasing ...
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Eugenia Kim Creates Virtual Reality Dances To Express Her Bipolar Disorder
Eugenia Kim is a PhD student, originally from the USA, who's been living in Hong ...
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Bansky Inspires Art Dealer to Open Street Art Centre in Industrial Welsh Town
The Welsh industrial town of Port Talbot, famed for its steelworks, could become a destination ...
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The Brains Behind Disruption
Disruptive Innovation is everywhere. From healthcare to social media, education to music, change-makers from across ...
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Last Chance to see Shaun Tan’s Exhibition!
The Arrival is the first exhibition in Asia of Australian illustrator, author, and filmmaker Shaun ...
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The Aspect of Bipolar That Led to Being (Wrongfully) Arrested on a Plane… Twice!
The Aspect of Bipolar That Led to Being Wrongfully Arrested on a Plane…Twice! A turbulent ...
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6 Simple Tips to Up Your Photography Game
The photographer and RISD professor Henry Horenstein's new book 'Make Better Pictures' offers everyday tips ...
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Mat Ricardo: Embracing Madness
A chance to view Mental Ideas Ambassador Mat Ricardo's insightful and entertaining TEDX podcast, 'Embracing ...
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9 Shocking Times People Destroyed Art While Taking Selfies
A look back at some of the most catastrophic selfie fails in modern memory... As ...
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Amazing Art Discoveries of 2018
This Year, Archaeologists Discovered How the Egyptians Built the Pyramids. Here Are 16 Other Amazing ...
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One of the Most Enduring—and Misunderstood—Images of France’s Yellow Vest Protests Orchestrated by a Performance Artist
Day-glo yellow vests are an indelible symbol of the “gilets jaunes” protests that have gripped ...
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Mental 2019!
Wishing you a happy, healthy and creative 2019 from all of us at Mental Ideas! ...
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Our Top 10 Masterclasses!
1. Annie Leibovitz Teaches Photography on Masterclass 2. Ron Howard Teaches Directing on Masterclass 3 ...
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10 Memorable News Photographs of 2018
In a year when political news seemed to overshadow almost everything else, we examine the ...
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Overcoming Creative Blocks
We know the feeling. You're staring at a screen, waiting for inspiration to strike… but ...
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Caffeine Buzz
Thanks to Hong Kong Buzz for publishing this interview about MENTAL IDEAS! Caffeine Buzz with ...
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James McIntosh Knits & Nibbles His Way Back From Depression
TV presenter and author James McIntosh combats his depression by knitting and nibbling his way ...
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Movement Is Medicine by Author William Pullen
Mental Ideas Ambassador Will Pullen was raised in Hong Kong, before moving to London. He's ...
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Hey, David Mitchell, Only An Idiot Judges A Show By Its Venue – Mat Ricardo
Mat Ricardo hits back at the Peep Show star's attack on street performers. And he ...
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Mental Ideas Unplugged!
To celebrate International Day of Unplugging, a 24-hour global respite from technology, Mental Ideas will ...
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How Alexandra Pirici Telegraphs Big Ideas Through Small Gestures
The choreographer and artist Alexandra Pirici likens her work to a transmission whose precise message ...
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The Importance of Doing What We’re Bad At – World Suicide Prevention Day
Suicide is a decision so impetuous that I don’t think it even qualifies as a ...
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FLIM – From BIFA to MIFF!
One of the highlights of the 2020 Mental Ideas Film Festival is guaranteed to be ...
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Mental Health Depicted Through Art – Charlotte Farhan
Charlotte Farhan is an artist, illustrator, writer, activist and Mental Ideas Ambassador. She's co-founder and ...
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The Art of Self-Belief – Owen Fitzpatrick
Owen Fitzpatrick is Mental Ideas' globetrotting psychologist from Dublin. He has travelled to more than ...
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Mat Ricardo on How To Find An Audience @ the National Gallery
Ambassador and showman Mat Ricardo is guest speaking at an event at the National Gallery ...
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Mind Boosting Benefits of Dog Therapy – Will Tottle
95% of us view our dogs like family and it’s not hard to see why ...
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WANTED: Moody Foodies for Cookbook!
Mental Ideas wants your original recipes, provocative theories and entertaining stories of bold culinary experimentation ...
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Mind Boosting Benefits of Music Therapy – Will Tottle
“If you were to look at those brains, you couldn’t tell the difference between people ...
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Mental Ideas Loves… Hashtag Lunchbag
Entrepreneur and restaurateur Ajay Relan is the LA-based brains behind #HashtagLunchbag, the initiative that encourages ...
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Mental Ideas Library
SHUSH! We’ve compiled a library of noisy op-eds and controversial articles on mental health from ...
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Mental Ideas Awards
The Mental Ideas Awards reward and recognize creative, innovative and inspirational solutions to a diverse ...
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Animals & Nature Collection by Artist Jade Bryant
Jade Bryant is a talented young artist and Mental Ideas Ambassador from Devon, UK. She ...
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From the Heart by Composer Nick Samuel
The Score... There are so many love songs. So many artists, so many writers and ...
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As Bad As It Gets – Coming Soon to RTHK!
The irreverent sequel to Sadie Kaye's 2015 documentary Bipolar Express will air on RTHK July ...
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Raffaello DeGruttola Writes About The Making of his UN Award-Winning Short Film No Way Home
The night we filmed No Way Home – Stop the Traffick on the streets of ...
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Featured Artist: Mat Ricardo
Meet Mat Ricardo: Mental Ideas Ambassador & Showman Extraordinaire! Fast Hands. Smart Mouth. Nice Suit ...
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My Life Asleep – Sadie Kaye
Ever since I was a teenager, for periods of months at a time, I have ...
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Steal Like An Artist – Austen Kleon
The trouble with creative work: Sometimes by the time people catch on to what's valuable ...
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Mental Ideas Egg Cup Challenge!
Mental Ideas is redesigning the humble egg cup! Winner wins a trophy, a carton of ...
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Mental Ideas Loves… Good Is The New Cool!
Good Is The New Cool is a movement formed to mobilize and inspire individuals who ...
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Mental Ideas Loves… Cook For Syria
Serena Guen is the founder and CEO of Suitcase Group. Clerkenwell Boy is a strategy ...
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‘Woof’ by Mat Ricardo
This week I've been mostly feeling empty. All my energy bars depleted. Desperately in need ...
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Support Groups: Bipolar Hong Kong
Bipolar Hong Kong is Hong Kong’s first peer-led bipolar support group. Established by Sadie Kaye ...
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HK Girl Gets Fit 4 Mental Ideas!
Sometimes getting started is the hardest thing... Living in the suburb of Clearwater Bay, I ...
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Bipolar Express on RTHK
Bipolar Express is an irreverent 30-minute roller coaster through the euphoric highs and debilitating lows ...
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Submissions
MENTAL IDEAS is a platform for experimentation. Irreverent, witty, noisy, unashamedly provocative and unapologetic in ...
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Ambassador Mat Ricardo’s First Column!
Like many of us, I felt the bruises of my mental health issues before I ...
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Support Groups: OCD & Anxiety Support
OCDAHK was set up by Minal Mahtani in 2014 to support, educate and act as ...
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