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Open • Up
Magazine
Mental Health —
It's About How We . . .
• Express Our Feelings
• Get Along With Others
• Cope With Life
2009 Submissions
Due January 31, 2009
Submission Form
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Request Your Free Copy Today!
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The Premiere Issue of Open•Up Magazine is now available! Presented in 4 parts, Open•Up features a wide array of essays, poems, and visual arts that impart powerful messages about mental health.
To request a free copy, send an e-mail with your name and address to openup@macmh.org. |
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About the Magazine
Open•Up is a literary and visual arts journal about
mental health created by and for artists ages 5-21
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Support Open•Up
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Open•Up offers children, youth, and young adults ages 5 – 21 a forum to express their thoughts and feelings through paintings, drawings, poems, essays, posters, photographs, cartoons, and stories. The focus of Open•Up is mental health or, in other words, the way you express yourself, how you cope with everyday life, and how you get along with others. |
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Artists ages 5 - 21 are welcome to submit artwork they have produced in the last three years. We accept posters, paintings, drawings, photographs, essays, stories, cartoons, fairy tales, and poetry.
Selection Criteria & Submission Form • 2009 Submissions due January 31, 2009
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Sample Art Submission
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"Nick drew this heart in watercolor when he was 8 years old. He had been hospitalized for mood stabilization and painted this in art class in school. He was to draw about his feelings. I love the heart because it visually portrays my son's moods. Sometimes he is bright and sunny and sometimes he feels the darkness moving into his heart, with different variations.
--Deborah, Nick's mother
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Mental Health Information
These resources provide accurate,
reliable
information about youth mental health
and mental health disorders.
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Mental Health may not be the easiest topic to discuss with young people so we have created several activities that help you begin the conversation.
The activities can be adapted for virtually any age group and address several different modes of learning including dramatic arts, creative movement, visual arts, and language arts.
Some of the activities, like the creative movement and discussion activities, focus on group interaction and may not result in a submission for Open•Up. They will, however, get your students thinking about mental health and perhaps help them be more understanding and accepting of each other. |
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