Battling Suicide Fringe Festival

The Battling Suicide Tour – Edinburgh Fringe 6th-31st August

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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The 5asideCHESS Podcast – Ryan talks with a Homeless man about Addiction, Pizza and Terence McKenna

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

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Art Football and Connection: The Football Tournament in Russia You Don’t Know About

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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