Heidi Everett
Independent Producer; Artist; Writer; Mental health & arts advocate; Innovator.
Melbourne, Australia / Wurundjeri Country.
Tell your story in the mental health system and you get medicated.
Tell that same story through the arts and you get celebrated.
I believe that mental health recovery is just one small part of a healing spectrum.
Things get better when we experience;
expression, voice, identity, community, wisdom, equity.
The best meeting place for all of these elements, is the arts.
Melbourne, Australia / Wurundjeri Country.
Tell your story in the mental health system and you get medicated.
Tell that same story through the arts and you get celebrated.
I believe that mental health recovery is just one small part of a healing spectrum.
Things get better when we experience;
expression, voice, identity, community, wisdom, equity.
The best meeting place for all of these elements, is the arts.
Image: Smiling woman with short light hair in short sleeve green top, in front of billabong.
What I do;
Complex trauma and neurodiverse access for organisations, events and venues.
Independent Producer - performing arts.
Qualia Theatre (Founder / Director)
Schizy Inc (Founder / Director)
Public speaker - lived/living experience, the arts, leadership, innovation.
Workshops - teaching creative, arts and advocacy skills for people with lived experience.
Music, singing, performance, songwriting.
Media - radio, newspaper and television.
Nature based learning and experience.
Support new leaders in advocacy and the arts.
Complex trauma and neurodiverse access for organisations, events and venues.
Independent Producer - performing arts.
Qualia Theatre (Founder / Director)
Schizy Inc (Founder / Director)
Public speaker - lived/living experience, the arts, leadership, innovation.
Workshops - teaching creative, arts and advocacy skills for people with lived experience.
Music, singing, performance, songwriting.
Media - radio, newspaper and television.
Nature based learning and experience.
Support new leaders in advocacy and the arts.
"On behalf of all the individuals who heard you, I thank you for an inspiring talk and performance. Many who heard you have contacted me to say how much they enjoyed your performance and how deeply your songs have affected them. Your music has a direct connection to our inner selves. It transcends verbal communication and goes straight to something inside of us. It brought joy, thoughtfulness and inspiration to me and to the others who heard you."
Judi Burstyner
Inner South Family and Friends (Melbourne)
Image: smiling woman on stage in dark room playing guitar with red guitar strap.
"I want to thank you so much for your important and integral contribution to our Free & Equal celebration at Women with Disabilities Victoria. Your comedy added a celebratory dynamic to the event and I speak for many when I say you were a real highlight! We think you’re fantastic here at Women Disability Victoria"
Karen Howe
Executive Director, Women with Disability Victoria
