Normal? Festival of the Brain 2017

Normal? Festival of the Brain brings science and art together to wonder at the brain, co-curated by Living Words, Quarterhouse and Folkestone Fringe with input from the local community. TSOTF were delighted to engage with local writers and activists to respond to the work and events happening in Folkestone.

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Dementia Friends
Dementia Friends
Johannes Klabbers // Posthumanist Therapy
Johannes Klabbers // Posthumanist Therapy
Living Words // Shutnell
Living Words // Shutnell
Church or Jungle // The Great War
Church or Jungle // The Great War
Normal? Festival Launch // Cardboard Citizens
Normal? Festival Launch // Cardboard Citizens
Hello Hair // Lisa Everest
Hello Hair // Lisa Everest
Hannah Peel // Awake But Always Dreaming
Hannah Peel // Awake But Always Dreaming
Dementia Dialogue // Knitting for Well-being
Dementia Dialogue // Knitting for Well-being
Drugs Or Art? What's Best in Dementia Care?
Drugs Or Art? What's Best in Dementia Care?
Sunday Assembly
Sunday Assembly
Split Britches // Care Café
Split Britches // Care Café
Dr Gemma Beckley // Mindfulness
Dr Gemma Beckley // Mindfulness
Daniel Oliver // Max Dyspraxe
Daniel Oliver // Max Dyspraxe
UnitedMind // Laughter Workshop
UnitedMind // Laughter Workshop
Stacy Makishi // Vespertime
Stacy Makishi // Vespertime

TSOTF Writers at Normal? 2017

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Madlin Bee
Madlin Bee

Madlin Bee is an ongoing contributor to Southwark Mind newsletter and other publications, drawing on her experience as a patient in the UK mental health system.

Anna Braithwaite
Anna Braithwaite

Anna Braithwaite is a composer and performer whose writing ranges from lyrics to blog posts. She is fascinated by the themes of the work covered by The Sick Of The Fringe and has created her own music about mental health and neurological issues for both professional and community projects.

www.annabraithwaite.co.uk

Faith Warn
Faith Warn

Faith Warn has had a lifelong freelance career writing articles and books, public speaking and radio broadcasting, including contributions to The Times, ClassicFM and Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour. She spent 11 years on a Greek island and now lives in Folkestone’s Creative Quarter, performing poetry and continuing to learn about life.

Sandra Elkins
Sandra Elkins

Sandra is a mother and grandmother. She works for the Pestalozzi village supporting international students. Sandra has an MA in creative writing and is currently working on a comic, Trina, the Cleaner. Trina is Sandra's alter ego, who evolved from the cleaning jobs she did to support her years of study.

Twitter: @SandraElkins5

Bex Bell
Bex Bell

Bex is a millennial sass addict with a passion for the outdoors. She works as a Digital Creative in Folkestone, and loves being able to run along the Leas in the morning, explore the Old High Street at lunch and watch the sunset over the sea.

Twitter: @sorunawaywithme

Melissa Jacob
Melissa Jacob

Melissa is a scribbler of poetry and flash fiction. Quite to her surprise, a number of these untidy glimpses into her mind have been published. She's passionate about inclusion and mental health and often draws on her own awkward relationship with anxiety, insomnia and depression as she strings words together.

Twitter: @sarsaparilla191

Website: sarsaparilla72.wordpress.com

Jane Unsworth
Jane Unsworth

Jane is a playwright, health and wellbeing coach. She explores where mindset, taking ownership, and showing up to evolve better health, energy and longevity meets putting our health into 'the-system's' hands and/or deciding that 'rock-bottom' really is the only place to start. 

Twitter & LinkedIn @JaneUnsworth 

www.facebook.com/groups/whatisefttapping 

www.janeunsworth.com