SiDAS
Schizy Inc Dedicated Arts Space
Visual Artist and Writer Residencies and Workshops
Abbotsford Convent
Naarm-Melbourne
Schizy Inc proudly presents SiDAS - Australia's first professional Lived/Living Experience art studio.
Professional development for visual artists and writers with diverse complex mental health.
Are you an artist or writer seeking a safe place to work, feel part of a community and develop your creative practice?
Accepting Expressions of Interest year round from new and emerging practicing creatives
in visual arts/illustration and writing for Sidas studio residencies.
Workshops, courses and mentoring available from professional artists and peers
for studio resident artists and the wider Lived Experience community.
Information and Expressions of Interest for residencies and workshops: [email protected]
Professional development for visual artists and writers with diverse complex mental health.
Are you an artist or writer seeking a safe place to work, feel part of a community and develop your creative practice?
Accepting Expressions of Interest year round from new and emerging practicing creatives
in visual arts/illustration and writing for Sidas studio residencies.
Workshops, courses and mentoring available from professional artists and peers
for studio resident artists and the wider Lived Experience community.
Information and Expressions of Interest for residencies and workshops: [email protected]
Workshops June-December 2024
Open to all creatives and writers in the Lived Experience community. All skill levels welcome.
Anthology Collective - with Amanda Scotney (Minds Shine Bright)
Develop diverse innovative writing skills and create the first Schizy Inc anthology of poems, stories, flash fiction and scripts, featuring voices of the mental health lived experience writers community.
With tutor Amanda, follow a structured creativity map from inspiration to publication, taking cues from thematic writing, categories (poetry, stories, flash fiction, scripts). Learn new writing techniques, editing and refinement, preparation for publishing and launch celebration. All skill levels and writers with lived experience welcome. Starting late July 2024. Free. Monday afternoons Location: Ross House 247 Flinders Lane, Melbourne (near Flinders St Station) REGISTER: [email protected] *subject line 'anthology' Minds Shine Bright is an international writers development and opportunity agency led by Amanda Scotney, writer, poet and short filmmaker. |
Past Workshop Guest Tutors 2024 (further dates to be announced).
More Guest Tutor workshops later 2024;
Writing with ANDY JACKSON.
Illustration with SHAUN TAN.
Writing with ANDY JACKSON.
Illustration with SHAUN TAN.
For all enquiries please email SiDAS Coordinator: [email protected]
To address equity, preference will be given to artists and writers who haven't worked in a studio recently, have limited space
and resources to make art or write at home, and haven't received NDIS or other arts mentoring support recently.
SiDAS Studio and Schizy Inc acknowledge Traditional People of Wurrundjeri Country of the Kulin Nations on which we gather.
To address equity, preference will be given to artists and writers who haven't worked in a studio recently, have limited space
and resources to make art or write at home, and haven't received NDIS or other arts mentoring support recently.
SiDAS Studio and Schizy Inc acknowledge Traditional People of Wurrundjeri Country of the Kulin Nations on which we gather.