mindscapes programme
SICK! Festival presents MINDSCAPES
Explore our full programme of commissions, workshops, conferences and debates below.
MEREL SMITT: WHILE WAITING, WAIT HERE
MEREL SMITT
WHILE WAITING, WAIT HERE
FROM MONDAY 19TH APRIL 2021
Online
Accessing Universal Credit is a frustrating, dehumanising experience that can feel like you’re part of a terrible game.
JAN ROTHUIZEN: MANCHESTER MOOD DRAWINGS
JAN ROTHUIZEN
MANCHESTER MOOD DRAWINGS
MONDAY 12TH APRIL – SUNDAY 14TH JUNE 2021
Poster sites across the Metrolink Network
What if a drawing could show you what’s inside a person’s mind? Posters across Metrolink reveal what’s going on inside our minds.
SJAAN FLIKWEERT & ELTEN KIENE: STREETS OF POETRY
SJAAN FLIKWEERT & ELTEN KIENE WITH YOUNG IDENTITY
Streets of Poetry
FROM MONDAY 19TH APRIL 2021
Moston & Harpurhey
Imagine if the pavements where we walk every day could tell you the stories of people who travelled across the world to be there.
YONATAN COLLIER: SOUNDPATHS – MOSTON & HARPURHEY
YONATAN COLLIER WITH BRIGHTER SOUND
SOUNDPATHS – MOSTON & HARPURHEY
FROM MONDAY 19TH APRIL 2021
Moston & Harpurhey
Experience your local area in a brand new way using music and sound through your phone.
THE GREAT DEBATE: MIND AND THE CITY
THE GREAT DEBATE: MIND AND THE CITY
WITH DESIGN MANCHESTER
TUESDAY 20th APRIL 2021
Online
Mental health and wellbeing in the built environment. Can we design our cities to make them more supportive of our mental health?
THEATER DEGASTEN: OUTSIDEINSIDEOUT
THEATER DEGASTAN
//OUTSIDEIN//
FROM MONDAY 19TH APRIL 2021
Online
How does the space around you impact on the way you see things, your thoughts and the way you feel?
JAN ROTHUIZEN: MINDSCAPES ARTISTS IN CONVERSATION
JAN ROTHUIZEN
IN CONVERSATION
Online
Visual artist Jan Rothuizen chats about Manchester, its neighbourhoods, its streets and buildings, parks and public transport.
ELTEN KIENE & SJAAN FLIKWEERT: MINDSCAPES ARTISTS IN CONVERSATION
SJAAN FLIKWEERT & ELTEN KIENE
IN CONVERSATION
AVAILABLE NOW
Online
Elten Kiene and Sjaan Flikweert chat about poetry, place and belonging, mental health and the places we live.
MEREL SMITT: MINDSCAPES ARTISTS IN CONVERSATION
MEREL SMITT
IN CONVERSATION
AVAILABLE NOW
Online
Merel Smitt chats about Universal Credit, mind-bending bureaucracy and inhuman offices.
YONATAN COLLIER: MINDSCAPES ARTISTS IN CONVERSATION
YONATAN COLLIER
IN CONVERSATION
AVAILABLE NOW
Online
Digital sound artist and composer Yonatan Collier chats about the green spaces, sounds, voices and streets of Moston and Harpurhey.
THEATER DEGASTEN: MINDSCAPES ARTISTS IN CONVERSATION
THEATER DEGASTEN
IN CONVERSATION
TUESDAY 27TH APRIL 2021
Online
Members of Theater DEGASTEN chat about adolescence and architecture, bedrooms, beauty and social media.
WELCOME TO MY WORLD
WELCOME TO MY WORLD
WEDNESDAY 21st APRIL 2021
Online
Four film-makers, two from Manchester and two from Rotterdam, explore the neighbourhoods they grew up in and the streets where they live now.
WORKSHOP: MOSTON & HARPURHEY MEETS ZUIDPLEIN
WORKSHOP: MOSTON & HARPURHEY MEETS ZUIDPLEIN
WITH URBAN PSYCHE
WEDNESDAY 21st APRIL 2021
Online
If your neighbourhood was a person, what would they be like? Friendly or prickly? Confident or self-critical? Serious or funny?
MINDSCAPES CONFERENCE: DAY 1
MINDSCAPES CONFERENCE
DAY 1
THURSDAY 22nd APRIL 2021
Online
SICK! in Manchester and Kunstinstituut Melly in Rotterdam present six panel discussions examining the ways we are affected by our environment.
MINDSCAPES CONFERENCE: DAY 2
MINDSCAPES CONFERENCE
DAY 2
FRIDAY 23rd APRIL 2021
Online
SICK! in Manchester and Kunstinstituut Melly in Rotterdam present six panel discussions examining the ways we are affected by our environment.
