Exhibition
#weRallbananas
6 Feb 2016 – 6 Mar 2016
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 16:30
- Sunday
- 12:00 – 16:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 16:30
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 16:30
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 16:30
- Friday
- 10:00 – 16:30
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art
- Centre Square
- Middlesbrough
Teesside - TS1 2AZ
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 5 minutes walk from Middlesbrough Bus Station
- 10 mintue walk from Middlesbrough Train Station
This exhibition by Youth Speak and Middlesbrough filmmaker Laura Degnan raises awareness of mental health issues through film and photographs and helps young people share their experiences via the hashtag #weRallbananas
About
#weRallbananas, presents outcomes of a partnership with Middlesbrough-based film-maker Laura Degnan, who was Leverhulme Artist in Residence at the Mental Health Research Centre, Durham University throughout 2015, and mental heath group, Youth Speak.
The display consists of a film and photographs associated with the #weRallbananas campaign, paying tribute to the daily battle on and around mental health.
Youth Speak and Degnan invited the public to write advice onto a banana and share an image of it on social media, creating the#weRallbananas campaign.
Youth Speak is a group organised by young people whose activities aim to raise awareness and combat the stigmas often associated with mental health. During 2015 Youth Speak partnered with the Middlesbrough-based film-maker Laura Degnan to develop a series of positive visual representations of mental health with and for young people.
