My Life Asleep – Sadie Kaye
Ever since I was a teenager, for periods of months at a time, I have led an exhausting double life: My Life Awake and My Life Asleep. One of my … Continue Reading My Life Asleep – Sadie Kaye
Steal Like An Artist – Austen Kleon
The trouble with creative work: Sometimes by the time people catch on to what’s valuable about what you do, you’re either a) bored to death with it, or b) dead. … Continue Reading Steal Like An Artist – Austen Kleon
Mental Ideas Egg Cup Challenge!
Mental Ideas is redesigning the humble egg cup! Winner wins a trophy, a carton of eggs (ha!) and the chance to have their egg cups displayed at boutique galleries & … Continue Reading Mental Ideas Egg Cup Challenge!
Can Comedy Erase Stigma? Showman Mat Ricardo’s Latest Column!
I’m a believer that anything can be funny. There’s nothing that you can’t make a joke about. But here’s the thing – the tougher the subject, the smarter and funnier … Continue Reading Can Comedy Erase Stigma? Showman Mat Ricardo’s Latest Column!
Exhibitions & Events
Mental Ideas produces and delivers many different kinds of workshops and events, including exhibitions for our most promising artists. We collaborate with galleries in Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai, New York, Paris … Continue Reading Exhibitions & Events
Projects
Mental Ideas provides access to arts, film and media opportunities for people of all ages and abilities who are coping with “invisible” (mental) health issues, directly and indirectly. Film & … Continue Reading Projects
Mental Ideas Loves… Good Is The New Cool
Good Is The New Cool is a movement formed to mobilize and inspire individuals who want to make positive change in the world, but are unsure where to start. The … Continue Reading Mental Ideas Loves… Good Is The New Cool
Mental Ideas Loves… Cook For Syria
Serena Guen is the founder and CEO of Suitcase Group. Clerkenwell Boy is a strategy consultant and anonymous food influencer. In 2016 they co-founded #CookForSyria – the supper club that … Continue Reading Mental Ideas Loves… Cook For Syria
‘Woof’ by Mat Ricardo
This week I’ve been mostly feeling empty. All my energy bars depleted. Desperately in need of a powerup. Veering wildly between panicky and desperate, and “oh, what’s the point of … Continue Reading ‘Woof’ by Mat Ricardo
Support Groups: Bipolar Hong Kong
Bipolar Hong Kong is Hong Kong’s first peer-led bipolar support group. Established in 2015 by Sadie Kaye, it’s since grown into a large collective of Hong Kong-based professionals, students, writers … Continue Reading Support Groups: Bipolar Hong Kong
HK Girl Gets Fit 4 Mental Ideas!
Sometimes getting started is the hardest thing… Living in the suburb of Clearwater Bay, I see my neighbours pounding the streets every day, dressed in lurid lycra and glow-in-the-dark trainers. … Continue Reading HK Girl Gets Fit 4 Mental Ideas!
The Bipolar Express on RTHK
The Bipolar Express is an irreverent 30-minute roller coaster through the euphoric highs and debilitating lows of the bipolar mind. Produced and presented for RTHK by Sadie Kaye, guests include … Continue Reading The Bipolar Express on RTHK
Submissions
There are a number of ways you can be featured on Mental Ideas: as a featured artist/ writer/ author/ poet/ comic/ filmmaker/ social entrepreneur, as a Regular Columnist or Resident … Continue Reading Submissions
