The performing arts can be a highly rewarding industry, with its people united by a passion for entertaining others and shaping the stories of each generation.
However, it is also prone to staggering levels of poor mental health across all areas of the industry. *
This is why the Arts Wellbeing Collective was founded. The first of its kind in Australia, the Collective is a preventative mental health initiative that looks at tackling the situations that affect arts workers' mental health, rather than 'band-aiding' the consequences.
When you donate to the Arts Wellbeing Collective, you are helping us to:
- Educate our peers about best practice, and increase mental health literacy among the sector. This empowers us with the tools to advocate for their own wellbeing, and thus;
- Advocate for positive change and mentally healthy working conditions on behalf of all Australian performing artists and arts workers.
- Give voice to the success stories, celebrating what makes us unique and ensuring trailblazers pioneering for supportive, positive workplaces do not go unnoticed.
*Working in the Australian Entertainment Industry, 2016
Please donate today
$25 will go towards the creation of free resources for everyone in our performing arts community
$75 subsidises participation in training programs, helping to remove barriers to mental health education for arts workers
$250 empowers the Arts Wellbeing Collective to create paid collaboration opportunities within our multi-talented arts community, and amplify the voices of those with lived experience