Follow the Battling Suicide Tour and help us make a difference on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter ! She started crying as she walked up to the big white space on the side of our bus. It’s a memorial to the people that have died. “We are asking people to write the names of loved ones […]
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The first leg of the Battling Suicide Tour is all set up, with the 5asideCHESS team starting their journey in Cambridge on July 19th and ending up in Edinburgh on August 1st. You can contact the team directly today. Click the link. So where are they in between? July 19th: 10am -11am Meadows Community Center Cambridge
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The 5asideCHESS team set out on the Battling Suicide Tour on July 19th, raising awareness of suicide prevention and promoting good mental health. All through building connections and chatting. And after two weeks are happy to confirm a residency at the: Edinburgh Fringe Festival, at the GrassMarket from August 6th to the 31st Close to
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On Saturday we cracked on with the first ever 5asideCHESS ‘takeover’ of the Urban Food Fest in Shoreditch, London. The idea of ‘Connection’ is already pretty strong at this brilliant event, and next time we want even more people to come along and help us fight loneliness and social isolation. We are also, like, really
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In this episode Ryan talks to a Homeless man about the trials and tribulations of Addiction, of overdosing and why Pizza isn’t so different from Crack Cocaine. During the making of this podcast the two of them had to sneak into a small room indoors to get away from the wind outside. Needless to say
There’s a man dressed in lilac, dolled up in violet, under a plastic purple tree, shuffling along the grey concrete of Moscow. He is a shaded tulip among the dead stone apartments that crawl, grey-legged, into the Russian sky. Even the rotting metal balconies can’t take my eyes off him as he grimaces, dragging a
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I’ve just been standing over there, next to the little silver bin in the kitchen, biting my nails down one by one. Fingers, not toes, don’t worry. It’s time to try and make this blog make sense with my new litter of naked mole rats at the end of my palms. Flecked green paint skirts
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Social Isolation and loneliness are pretty much unbounded. That is to say they have no bounds. That is to say people everywhere are affected by it. That is to say there is no fixed abode to the work we do at 5asideCHESS. So last week we went on a little tour of the North, playing
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We are all submerged, even now the clocks have turned, in the liquid ideas of after-dark. Away from anything solid or true, blowing hot air at ourselves. Rushing on worries about our social media lives and the jobs we do to make other people rich. Am I doing well enough? Moving fast enough? Is it
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What is 5asideCHESS? Do you need 5 players? No, wait, you need 10 players, right? Hold on, is this something to do with football? Thankyou generic person in generic cafe, they are all great questions, but sadly you are generically wrong on all generic accounts. The questions are valid, though, so let me explain what
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