Mental Health Challenges in the South Asian Community Made By Mortals is co-producing a project which focuses on some of the challenges facing women in the South Asian community. We are hearing women talk about how the topic of domestic abuse is often hidden, and not spoken about. Subsequently, this affects their mental health and […]
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A blog exploring ways in which participatory arts practice can inject more empathy, humanity and beauty into the care system. Paul Hine- CEO of Made By Mortals I recently went to an event called Beautiful Care. Beautiful Care invited different stories of care into the Whitworth Art gallery in Manchester. The event included an original performance
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We are SUPER excited to announce that Armchair Adventures has been shortlisted for the British Podcast Awards in the Best Family Podcast category! 🤩 Armchair Adventures began life during lockdown with our lovely drama group of over 65’s, Hearts & Minds. Our community was suffering from isolation and loneliness due to the pandemic. So, we wanted
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In this month’s BONUS episode of our kids podcast, we have some extra special guests! Connie has enlisted the help of her Uncle Chris. Uncle Chris is a drama teacher who loves to get people acting, playing and being creative! 🎭 So Connie sent him, with the rest of the gang, to Millbrook Primary School
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Do you have an inspirational story to tell children? OR do you know an older person with a great story to tell? Enter to win £500! Made By Mortals are looking for true, inspirational stories from older people of Tameside. Stories that will inspire the younger generations. If you have a real-life tale to
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Back in May, we debuted our show of Hidden LIVE at The Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. The show was a co-production with Applied Research Collaboration Greater Manchester. Where young people with lived experience of mental health issues were recruited to inform and co-create this performance. The show encourages audience members to walk
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Dementia Action Week takes place from 16-22 May 2022 and is Alzheimer’s Society’s longest-running awareness campaign. The aim is to encourage people to ‘act on dementia’, which is something we at Made By Mortals feel really passionate about. In January, we came together with Together Dementia Support for a couple of development sessions with people
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In April, we popped over to Hattersley Library to run some super fun Armchair Adventure workshops. All themed around our Composting Episode! Over 30 local older people helped create our Armchair Adventures podcast. We were keen to keep bringing generations together to have fun! So the workshop was specifically designed to involve ALL the family!
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In this month’s episode, we are off on a CRUISESHIP adventure! In this episode of our kids podcast, we are going on an Armchair Adventure with…drum roll please…. Cyril and Lilly! Connie confides with them that she has been feeling very tired recently. Cyril suggests that getting away might help blow away all their cobwebs!
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Our BRAND NEW episode is out now, and we’re off on a local history adventure! In this month’s episode of our kids podcast, John has been for a walk down the canals in his hometown of Ashton-under-Lyne, and he’s in a FAB mood. John explains to Connie that he loves to look at all the
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