Film-making workshop with Julian Triandafyllou

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Film-making workshop with Julian Triandafyllou

Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival

Deadline: 24 June 2025 at 12:00

Join us for our next Mental Health Arts Network gathering on 24 June at 2pm, with a one-hour workshop led by filmmaker Julian Triandafyllou who works with survivor-led organisation Traumascapes.

The Mental Health Arts Network is a year-round initiative by the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival to bring together a community of artists interested in making creative work about mental health. Over the next three years we are curating a series of gatherings, each exploring a different topic or theme in partnership with guest experts, while also providing opportunities for artists to meet and talk.

Our third online gathering, on Tuesday 24 June at 2pm, will begin with a workshop led by film-maker Julian Triandafyllou. Julian works with the survivor-led organisation Traumascapes, who have previously presented work as part of the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival. The workshop will be followed by an informal conversation and networking session.

Julian's workshop will invite participants into a process of exploring what it means to collaborate with your lived experience through creative practice, with a specific focus on filmmaking. We will be exploring the difference between creating conscious and unconscious depictions, about being triggered by your own material, and exploring methods of building safety within your own frames of reference.

Julian Triandafyllou did his BA at Central Saint Martins, London and his MA at the Edinburgh College of Art working under Emma Davie. His work - mainly moving image, but more recently involving text - has explored the nature and experience of living with trauma, but themes also revolve more generally around time, memory, place and language. He has been working as an artist with Traumascapes since 2022 and is currently the Operations Manager for the organisation. He is also training to become an LGBTQ+ affirmative integrative counsellor with ELOP, London.

Location: All Scotland, International

The deadline is Tuesday 24 June 2025 at 12:00.

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Join us for our next Mental Health Arts Network gathering on 24 June at 2pm, with a one-hour workshop led by filmmaker Julian Triandafyllou who works with survivor-led organisation Traumascapes.

The Mental Health Arts Network is a year-round initiative by the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival to bring together a community of artists interested in making creative work about mental health. Over the next three years we are curating a series of gatherings, each exploring a different topic or theme in partnership with guest experts, while also providing opportunities for artists to meet and talk.

Our third online gathering, on Tuesday 24 June at 2pm, will begin with a workshop led by film-maker Julian Triandafyllou. Julian works with the survivor-led organisation Traumascapes, who have previously presented work as part of the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival. The workshop will be followed by an informal conversation and networking session.

Julian's workshop will invite participants into a process of exploring what it means to collaborate with your lived experience through creative practice, with a specific focus on filmmaking. We will be exploring the difference between creating conscious and unconscious depictions, about being triggered by your own material, and exploring methods of building safety within your own frames of reference.

Julian Triandafyllou did his BA at Central Saint Martins, London and his MA at the Edinburgh College of Art working under Emma Davie. His work - mainly moving image, but more recently involving text - has explored the nature and experience of living with trauma, but themes also revolve more generally around time, memory, place and language. He has been working as an artist with Traumascapes since 2022 and is currently the Operations Manager for the organisation. He is also training to become an LGBTQ+ affirmative integrative counsellor with ELOP, London.