It’s All a Show: Fairground Showmen, Identity and Mental Health
About this event
An exhibition by Sheldon Chadwick PhD of Liverpool John Moores University and the National Fairground and Circus Archive at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus.
It’s All a Show: Fairground Showmen, Identity and Mental Health explores what it means to be a Showman in the twenty-first century and the relationship between identity and mental health in that community. The exhibition showcases Sheldon’s ground-breaking research and collaborations with the NHS, third sector and academic organisations together with historic archive records and newly created interviews, photographs and poems. It’s All a Show provides a platform for honest and open conversations about mental health, identity, neurodiversity and discrimination.
Location: LAB Mezzanine, ARU Cambridge Campus
Date: 2nd September- 27th September, 9am-5pm
Free Entry
*(Throughout this exhibition, the term Showmen is used to include men, women and children from the community.)