Thanks to the China Daily for publishing my piece on why we need to change the lexicon on suicide in their Hong Kong and Asia Weekly editions a few weeks ago! I am always grateful for a platform to discuss difficult subjects related to mental health. 🙏🏼
https://www.chinadailyasia.com/article/381338#Why-we-need-to-change-the-way-we-talk-about-suicide
Thanks to Mind HK for organising an evening of storytelling and poetry inspired by mental health with me and fellow ambassadors Vish and Derek at the Anita Chan Lai-ling Gallery 4 March! Unbelievably, this Hong Kong International Literary Festival event sold out before I had a chance to write a post about it! 😮 Not even I have a ticket! 🤣
Happily, tickets ARE still available for Mind HK‘s Conversations of the Heart event at Tai Kwun Sat 24 Feb! Vish, Derek and I will be among the ambassadors sharing stories and poems from 10.30-11.30am. I promise you Vish is off-the-scale, Derek is a rising star, and I am Poet Laureate of my bathroom. You can get tickets here!
We are just the warm up act for a whole day of inspiring talks, panel discussions and presentations by awesome Mind staff and other ambassadors. I will be there all day. Hope to see you there!
What better day to let slip I am producing a film called To Love A Narcissist than Valentine’s! To Love A Narcissist is another obsessive love story by Raffaello Degruttola where trust is weaponised. Our last film collaboration Transference went viral on YouTube and has now been viewed over 23M times. This one stars the magnetic Lyndsey Marshal alongside Raff and a stellar supporting cast that includes Sule Rimi, Stephen Campbell-Moore and Andrea Lowe. You can follow the film @Contro Vento Films and toloveanarcissist.com.
Join me and Mind HK for an inspiring day of poetry, stories and panel discussions at Tai Kwun, Central, on Sat 24 Feb! I will be among the first Mind HK ambassadors sharing their stories and poetry in the first event of the day, which has been organised by Mind and Mindset on the theme of Conversations of the Heart.
Please click on the link below to book tickets on Eventbrite! I will be there all day so if you’re going, please find me and say hi! Hope to see you there!
I will also be sharing poetry and stories alongside fellow ambassadors Vish and Derek at a Mind HK event at the Hong Kong Lit Fest 4 March!
#Conversationsoftheheart #MoreThanALabel #MindHK
https://www.eventbrite.hk/e/sharing-poetry-stories-and-mental-health-tickets-792874016527
From ballet to journalism, I stink at it and do it anyway! Read the madness in my method here!
A Bipolar Love Story is live on YouTube‘s VYP channel! I am rewarded for all my bad work with the once-in-a-lifetime exclusive opportunity to interview a living legend: JACKIE CHAN is on the podcast!!! No, I am not making this up!!!! She works in banking and has bipolar disorder!!!!! Oh.
Issue 2 of the Hong Kong Writers Circle‘s literary magazine The Apostrophe on the theme of ‘MIND‘ is live on Substack! Congratulations to the published writers and artists, including Rebecca Dandridge-Walker, Julian Pantz and Kasra Shroff! Submissions for Issue 3 close on Halloween 2023. The theme is ‘Mistake’ but this is a trick! The only mistake you can make is not entering!
Happy to be taking part in Mind HK‘s anti-stigma campaign More Than A Label‘s first anniversary event; ‘More Than A Label: I Was, I Am, I Will Be‘, an exhibition of art, poetry and letters by Mind HK ambassadors aimed at de-stigmatising mental health, which will be open to the public Nov 21 – Nov 28. The exhibition will be held at 5, Sun Fung Mansion, 52-60 Lyndhurst Terrace, Central, Hong Kong Nov 21-28. More details soon!
Some of my previous ‘rants’ about mental health!
https://themighty.com/topic/bipolar-disorder/mania-bipolar-disorder-sleepwalking
I am bouncing off satellites to have been ‘matched’ as a mentor with dynamo of positive energy Eny Bawse by the Resolve Foundation! I met Eny for the first time this week and will be mentoring her on her journey with Resolve’s 2022 fellowship program and her incredible Self Love Cupid project. When that’s over, I am really hoping Eny will mentor me!
Excited to be an ambassador for mental health charity Mind HK! Thanks to Odile, Vicki and the rest of the team for the encouragement and opportunity to train and swap stories with so many inspiring people!
