OPEN CALL

Call for inspiring cases from the Global South

The second Culture & Mental Health international conference will take place in Ghent, Belgium on 28 and 29 November 2024. This conference seeks to promote learning, discussion and debate around cultural interventions aimed at improving the wellbeing of people recovering from mental health difficulties or people in vulnerable situations. The focus of this edition is on supporting the mental wellbeing of forcibly displaced people through art and culture.

The Dr Guislain Museum is the venue for this conference. Housed in the oldest mental asylum in Belgium, which dates back to 1857, surrounded by a mental health hospital. During the conference we want to platform cases outside The Global Europe in the museum. A case can be a one-of initiative or event, a project or a service offered by an organisation.

We are calling for inspiring cases of how arts and culture support the mental, physical and social health of forcibly displaced people. The projects have to be situated in the Global South, this comprises Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia (excluding Israel, Japan and South Korea) and Oceania (excluding Australia and New Zealand).

You can submit a case by filling in this online form. The selected cases are to be shown in the museum so it is important that you can provide high resolution and copyright free photos (max. 10) that illustrate the case.

Deadline for submissions is 15 September 2024, 24:00 CET

Contact for more information: cmh2022ghent@gmail.com