Let’s share together the pleasure of discovering this artistic, cultural and collaborative magazine with the charming name of the “Aquaphobic Duck”. Created on the initiative of four professionals from the mental health center of the cities of Faches-Thumesnil, Hellemmes, Lesquin, Lezennes, Mons, Ronchin, it brings together the proposals of around thirty contributors. A Duck, don’t worry, isn’t ugly!
It is the result of the enthusiastic collaboration of around forty sowers of resilience – users of mental health services, care and support professionals, professional artists, emerging artists, residents – who are determined to resist the limits of taboo. of our human condition and its vulnerability. A free creation process initiated by a facilitator, a health-pair mediator, a psychomotor therapist and a coordinator of cultural and artistic projects.
“Sharing the feathers we left behind, those we found, means giving to make diversity grow. »
This action aims to promote the exercise of citizenship and to fight once morest discrimination in the field of health and mental health. This project, whose ambition grew as it was carried out, benefited from the technical expertise and financial support of the Communication and Culture Department of the Nord Pas-de-Calais Psychiatry GHT.
It is the contributors of the “Aquaphobic Duck” who talk regarding it best. ” Daring the recreational pleasure of adventurous creation, this “Aquaphobic Duck” has been built up over the course of encounters like a shared breath. A cool and peaceful followingnoon near the pond called “Des Trop−Pleins du Vide”. This or that puts down his package to find meaning in it, letting go by the wrist to better find himself. To show off without showing oneself, to reveal oneself in order to hope. Sharing the feathers we have left, those we have found, is giving to make diversity grow. It is to create both the roots and the direction of a breath deployed towards the unexpected and the instinctive. It’s listening to the muffled roar of a volcanic inspiration and surfing the warm and joyful flow of the freedom to create. It is to provoke the eruption of a whole with our best cobblestone thrown in the “marrade” and to observe together the circles spread! »
Read the “Aquaphobic Duck” (Nov. 2022) on this link (PDF)
