Self-Determination Workshop Series
Training Program
Workshop #4

Let’s Get Creative!
Using the Arts
to Enhance
Self-Determination
for People with
Psychiatric Disabilities

May 16, 2003
9 am - 5 pm

Congress Plaza Hotel
520 S. Michigan
Chicago, IL 60605

Presented by:
The National Research and Training
Center on Psychiatric Disability
Department of Psychiatry
University of Illinois at Chicago

The Center is supported by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, USDOE, and the Center for Mental Health Services, SAMHSA.

Workshop Agenda
and Guest Speakers

This workshop addressed how people with psychiatric disabilities and their supporters use the arts to foster individual and collective self-determination. The session will include artmaking, improv, open mic, writing, and discussions on how art can reduce discrimination against and isolation of people with psychiatric disabilities. Experience or training in the arts is not required - all are welcome!

9:00-9:15am:
Welcome and Introductions
Free Continental Breakfast
9:15-12:00pm:
History of the Consumer/Survivor Arts Movement; Improvisation
12:00-1:30pm:
Lunch (on your own)
1:30-4:45pm:
Artmaking; Poetry; Open Mic; Using Art to Increase Self-Expression and Foster Self-Determination
4:45-5pm:
Q&A; Wrap-up

Presented by Gayle Bluebird, RN - National Coordinator, Altered States of the Arts; and Robert Lundin - Founder, Awakenings Art Project.