How one festival guides a city through trauma

Australia’s first mental health and arts festival will soon land in Brisbane to deliver engaging practical activities for recovery plus some midwifery wisdom.

27 Apr 2022

Celina Lei

Performing Arts

The Big Reach combines technology with the arts to shed new light on mental health. Photo: Jessica Maurer.

After recent floods and the devastation that it’s caused to Queensland’s southeast coast, focusing on healing and mental health is as important as the physical rebuilds.

Soon to land in Brisbane over the weekend of 26 – 27 May, The Big Reach festival may just be the right antidote for a community that’s been through so much.

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Celina Lei is an arts writer and editor at ArtsHub. She acquired her M.A in Art, Law and Business in New York with a B.A. in Art History and Philosophy from the University of Melbourne. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne.