{"id":18870,"date":"2020-01-22T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T17:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=18870"},"modified":"2020-01-24T09:14:15","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T17:14:15","slug":"student-plans-talent-show-for-mental-health-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2020\/01\/22\/student-plans-talent-show-for-mental-health-awareness\/","title":{"rendered":"Student plans talent show for mental-health awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Out of pain comes creativity. That\u2019s what second-year General Science student Jordan Bell proved when she decided to take her experiences with mental health and turn them into something beautiful and creative.<\/p>\n

\u201cI struggled with mental health for quite a while,\u201d says Bell. \u201cArtistic expression is something that really got me through that time. It is just such an important part of dealing with mental health\u2014just talking about it, and turning it into creative projects and creative endeavours.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bell realized that her journey could be something that others could relate to so decided to reach out to people through organizing a talent show for the Camosun College Student Society MyWellness program. The talent show will take place on Wednesday, February 26 in Young 216; auditions and run-throughs are on Wednesday, February 5 from from 4:30 to 6:00.<\/p>\n

\u201cCreativity is just such a good way to get it out and connect,\u201d says Bell. \u201cWe thought we could have a fun event where people see other people who are making art through whatever they\u2019re dealing with.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Camosun College student Jordan Bell is organizing a campus talent show (photo by Adam Marsh\/Nexus<\/em>).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Bell says her own creative process was essential in her journey, and she wants to share that with other people.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s so important to talk about it because everybody deals with it,\u201d she says, \u201cand the more that you can look over and see someone else handling it, the easier it is for you to handle it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bell was able to channel her experience into her art, so she knows how the process can help healing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am a singer\/songwriter and I produce on the side, so I\u2019ve done a couple albums,\u201d says Bell. \u201cIt was what I had to do. With my anxiety it was a necessity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bell is hoping that other people who have had similar struggles will want to share them in a creative way through the talent show.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it will be a really fun event,\u201d says Bell. \u201cI also think it is very intimidating, getting up and performing. I think people often feel that they have to be really good at it in order to do it, but I really would love to get more people trying to do singing, or trying to do art, or trying something creative because it is just so important.\u00a0It is just so cathartic in helping to deal with those emotions that are hard to deal with.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bell says she has an idea of what she is hoping will happen during the event (what she needs for now is more people to sign up to perform; email mywellnesscamosun@gmail.com if you\u2019re interested in participating in the talent show).<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I am envisioning\u2014what I\u2019m hoping\u2014is that we\u2019ll have people talk a little bit before they perform,\u201d says Bell. \u201cThey might talk about how mental health affected them or someone in their life; they don\u2019t necessarily have to deal with it themselves. I know not everybody would feel comfortable with that, but ideally we would all bring it up and do a performance together related to mental health.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bell has been trying for a while to think of a way that people who have struggled with mental health can connect with each other, and she really hopes that this event will be a way to do it.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would be a really good opportunity for people to see another side of it, and see what can be done despite having mental-health issues that people deal with, and even if it doesn\u2019t go well, at least we will have gotten the word out there,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019ll be a really fun opportunity to show what you can do, and maybe be inspired by other people who might be going through exactly that same thing that you are. So why not do it? It will be one night of your life.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Out of pain comes creativity. That\u2019s what second-year General Science student Jordan Bell proved when she decided to take her experiences with mental health and turn them into something beautiful and creative. \u201cI struggled with mental health for quite a while,\u201d says Bell. \u201cArtistic expression is something that really got me through that time. It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,246],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus","category-january-22-2020"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18872,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18870\/revisions\/18872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}