Clive Parkinson to deliver performance-presentation at The Big Anxiety Festival

Clive Parkinson is the Director of Arts for Health at Manchester Metropolitan University; the UK’s longest established arts and health unit. He led on the HM Treasury funded; Invest to Save: Arts in Health Project between 2003 - 2007 and is a passionate advocate for culture and the arts. In 2009 he was awarded an Enterprise Curriculum Fellowship to develop bespoke arts/health training. He delivers regular training for artists and health professionals. In 2016 he was made a Reader at the Manchester School of Art, focusing on Arts, Health and Social Justice and has been awarded a Visiting Fellowship at the University of New South Wales. 

His performance-presentation will focus on Obsessive Compulsive Disorder at The Big Anxiety festival in Australia.

The Big Anxiety Festival is the world’s leading arts and mental health festival. 

The Big Anxiety brings together artists, scientists and communities to question and re-imagine the state of mental health in the 21st century.

A radically new kind of international arts festival, in which every project is an open conversation, designed to promote curiosity, awareness and action, The Big Anxiety presents over 60 events across Greater Sydney, tackling the major anxieties of our times, as well as the stresses and strains of everyday life.

Read more here: http://www.art.mmu.ac.uk/news/item-832/

To find out more about the festival, click here: https://www.thebiganxiety.org/about/