Many people on stage at Northcote Social Club live music venue. People in audience clapping. Video of Schizy Week Jam on screen.
Schizy Inc creates space in the arts for people
with mental health living experience.
We have diverse lived experiences of the mental health system.
We're based in Melbourne, Australia.
Schizy Inc. dream up and run awesome arts events and projects, including Mojo Film Festival for Schizophrenia Week in May and Sanctuary arts retreat in mental health month.
Schizy Inc. works for personal and community pride with genuine connections in our global lived-experience neighbourhood. We do this because we know healing from PTS comes from being creative, curious and courageous.
And being around others doing the same.
'Schizy Inc are not art therapy'
Doing art can be healing.
Yet our power as a cultural group is in owning and telling our stories,
displaying them in professional ways that respect you: the owner and creator.
We build the kind of spaces that make people proud to be artists.
Reclaim your experiences,
rename them with a 'Title' and a ©
'Schizy Inc are the opposite of newspapers'
Schizy Inc. are tired of seeing schizophrenia misrepresented in media.
It's not acceptable for journalists to consistently associate serious criminal activity with a mental health diagnosis. Mental illness is never public defense for crime.
The UN Convention of the Rights of People with Disability Article 8 (part 2)
states Australia must:
"Encourage all organs of the media to portray persons with disabilities in a manner consistent with the purpose of the present Convention" ie Article 1"to promote respect for their inherent dignity".
Dignity.
UN Convention of the Rights of People with Disability, accessed June 2018
https://www.un.org/development/desa/disabilities/convention-on-the-rights-of-persons-with-disabilities.html
Schizy Inc. are tired of seeing schizophrenia misrepresented in media.
It's not acceptable for journalists to consistently associate serious criminal activity with a mental health diagnosis. Mental illness is never public defense for crime.
The UN Convention of the Rights of People with Disability Article 8 (part 2)
states Australia must:
"Encourage all organs of the media to portray persons with disabilities in a manner consistent with the purpose of the present Convention" ie Article 1"to promote respect for their inherent dignity".
Dignity.
UN Convention of the Rights of People with Disability, accessed June 2018
https://www.un.org/development/desa/disabilities/convention-on-the-rights-of-persons-with-disabilities.html
