PEPSAEE - Panhellenic Association for Psycho-social Rehabilitation and Work Integration

The ART4PSY Project is exploring innovative ways of building understanding between people with severe mental health illness and the general population in order to facilitate their social inclusion, while in the same time it promotes transnational circulation of cultural and creative works produced by mental health patients. Additionally, ART4PSY supports mental health patients to explore the possibility for a career in the cultural and creative sector. Furthermore ART4PSY will promote social inclusion, fight stigma and increase public awareness of talents and skills of artists with mental health problems.
The project offers mental health patients from three different countries the opportunity to co-produce “The European Theatrical Performance”. Part of the project will be dedicated to the development of (a) a toolkit, which will gather methodology, good practices, activities and other material and can be used by mental health practitioners from all over the world; and (b) a digital library where artwork of mental health patients from all over the world will be exhibited and promoted. The project includes the development and implementation of three (3) ART4PSY festivals (one in each country), which include theatrical performance (starting from writing the play and going all the way to the show), painting exhibition and photography exhibition.