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Schizy Inc. is a vibrant collective gathering place of creative advocates and artists
with diverse experiences of complex mental health.
I started Schizy Inc (pronounced 'skitzy ink') in 2008 as a practical response to the lack of vocational arts opportunities and pathways for creative people, like me, in psychosocial rehabilitation settings.
Schizy Inc started out as a local live music event, expanding to bigger World Schizophrenia Day projects including International 'One Love' Music Jams, the Big Creative Arts Muster, and Mojo Short Film Festival. Schizy Inc has grown to a year-round multi-artform NFP organisation with projects across multiple locations across Victoria. Mojo is an award-winning six month arts festival, involving stand up comedy, theatre, dance, cabaret and music. Schizy Inc is home to SiDAS, the country's first dedicated professional art studio for practicing visual artists and writers beyond the mental health service system, at Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne.
Schizy Inc aligns with the United Nations Convention of the Rights of Disabled People, are members of the global Charter for Compassion and we operate by standards and ethics of the Australian arts sector.
Schizy Inc is a registered charity with DGR status.
Our big dream project is establishing a regional lived experience property with a regional community arts project based in Bendigo and a completed Healing Farm Feasibility Report.
www.schizy.org
Artists and campers at Sanctuary in Longridge Park, Warrandyte.
