R3Connect

Welcome the R3connect – a creative dissemination project combining arts, community, and research. Explore the project through the below pages to learn more.

NEW Animation: Same storm…

This animation brought together group contributions from the R3connect project to reflect findings from the research of Dr Peters. A quote from one of the research participants inspired the story to explain the expereince of living with mental illness and staying well. This was described as the ‘same storm, different ships’. To visualise metaphor a lone sail boat navigate a storm, representing illness. When the lighthouse appears, this represents community groups and organisations that offer opportunities to engage in creative activities, providing alternative expereinces from illness. People involved in R3connect created their own images of a boat or ship, which appear from the light house. Boats/ships of different shapes and sizes come to help the sail boat toeing them to the lighthouse, illustrating how people with shared lived expereinces can support each other to create safe communities. In doing so the sail boat transforms in colour, still the same boat but different. The boats/ships still remain in the storm, as many people must continue to live with ongoing illness, but the community group holds a safe space in which to grow.