CoolTan Arts premiers three films at the British Film Institute
Disability Arts Online
CoolTan Arts, the London-based arts project working with mental health service users, launched three new film projects at the British Film Institute on 8 February, 2010.

Largactyl Shuffle, BFI Southbank, Feb 8
South London Press
‘CoolTan Arts the Walworth based charity that seeks to alleviate mental distress by encouraging sufferers to alleviate their creativity, is releasing a film about one of its flagship projects.’

The Asylum Seeker
Time Out
‘The Largactyl Shuffle is a stroll through Southwark with a difference – tracing the area’s colourful history and ongoing relationship with mental illness.’

Walk Tall
Living South Magazine
‘Living South discovers the local community while soaking up some quirky history with wellbeing walks by Walworth charity CoolTan Arts’

Walk the walk of Southwark pride
Disability Now
‘Mental health and the past walk hand in hand as Kelly Mullan takes a toddle through the history of histrionics in south London’

What a difference a World Mental Health day makes
Clare Allen
The Guardian

Doing it for themselves
Disability Now
‘The women of CoolTan Arts, a mental health arts project based in Southwark South London unveiled their collection of batik kimono designs on the catwalk during Alternative Arts Fashion Week’

The Summer Solstice Largactyl Shuffle: From Madhouse to Modern Psychiatric Hospital
Mental Health Practice
‘A guided walk from Tate Modern at Bankside to the Maudsley Hospital in Camberwell, June 20′

Women with mental distress get creative
Women in Prison
‘We present our favourite images from Women Make Art, an exhibition held at CoolTan gallery in London earlier this year.’

On the record
Mental Health Today
‘Looking at ordinary people’s tales of living with their mental illness.’

Do the Largactyl Shuffle
Communitycare
‘Mark Drinkwater joins CoolTan Arts on a mental health themed amble through south London.  Join the walk this Saturday on World Mental Health Day.’

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