Open Mind Fiesta 2009! Every year, MI Fellowship celebrates Mental Health Week with the annual Open Mind Fiesta, a vibrant community-based festival held along Fairfield's Station Street. This year Mental Illness Fellowship and the Fairfield Traders Association received an award from Mainstreet Australia for the Open Mind Fiesta. The Open Mind Fiesta this year features a community stage and an activity stage, stalls, rides, a pamper tent and a children’s area.
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What's on this year Be part of the action Our partners and supporters This year the Open Mind Fiesta will be held on Sunday 11th October 11.00am - 5.00pm at the culmination of a busy week of local events and participation for Mental Health Week. The theme this year's Fiesta is Wellbeing and Participation and will prove that people with a mental illness are an important part of every community. Our message for the year is "people with mental illness want to participate... make it happen!" The Open Mind Fiesta is run in partnership with the Fairfield Traders Association.

What's On

Click here for a full program!

Some of the activities planned for this year's Fiesta are:

• "Social Circus" – the National Institute of Circus Arts will create a social circus on the street with participants who have taken part in workshops prior to the Fiesta.
• "Get out there!" - games and activities plus information about nutrition and exercise.
• "Mental Mural" - providing hands on participation in painting and production of an acrylic mural.
• "Relaxation Retreat" - pleasures of different kinds including massage and reflexology, emphasising the need for self care. 
• "Physical wellbeing" – active involvement, exercise, games encouraging people to ‘come and try’, and have fun.  
• "MI Fellowship information" – find out all about what we do and the programs we run.
• "Making connections" – Carer Quilting Marquee, offering participation in the production of a carers quilt.
• "Shape It" Mosaics and Clay Modelling – offering clay modelling activities (individually created items to be fired later by Northcote Pottery and available for collection); and the production of a mosaic mural.

Volunteering

 Join us to make a difference and be a part of the Fiesta!

We are currently looking for volunteers to assist with -

• Traffic control
• Fundraising activities
• Visitor information
• Street stalls

If you would like to be part of the Open Mind Fiesta festivities, fill out the form below or email us!

Partners

Thank you to our sponsors and supporters of the Open Mind Fiesta. To visit their websites, please click on their logos below.