CoolTan Arts launches its poetry book ‘Anthropology’, produced by CoolTan Arts’ poets in our workshop, at the Liberty Festival on 4^th September 2010.  The title is a play on the word ‘anthology’, of course; it’s also meant to evoke the sense that people with mental distress often have of being clinically observed: seen as phenomena rather than as individuals.

With their poetry, our writers are expressing a much broader, truer, more interesting picture of their own perspectives – which take in everything, from flights of fancy to political rant.

11^th September, 2pm at Hackney Marshes

COOLTAN ARTS IN ASSOCIATION WITH TWO2GO…

Join CoolTan Arts for an urban exploration walk of the area where the Olympics and Paralympics will take place in 2012; find out about the place, people and local community, and how the Olympics / Paralympics affect the everyday lives of Hackney community. It will be entertaining, with lots of quirky details and facts you never knew before!

Experience the clash between the former industrial area and the funky artistic area Hackney has become, and how it changed with the preparations and constructions for the Olympics.

Join the fun, celebrate Mad Culture and World Mental Health Day

Saturday 09 October 2010

11.30am for a 12noon start

Where:  Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill, SE5 8AZ  (by the main entrance)

Finish: Tate Modern, Bankside, SE1 9TG

Celebrate Mad Heritage with CoolTan Arts Largactyl Shuffle, a guided cultural walk from the Maudsley Hospital to Tate Modern. We will be celebrating World Mental Health Day and ‘mad’ culture by placing disposable public sculptures that explore the past, present and future of “Madness and Contemporary Psychiatric Innovation”, along the walk route from the Maudsley Hospital to the Tate Modern.

Relax and find a balance beetween mind and body. Join our tester classes on every tuesday from 2pm till 3pm, here at our office, Unit B 237, Walworth Rd, SE17 1RL.

As part of the class, we ask for a £1 donation, which would go straight to the charity.