Key points

Experiencing psychosis can alter how someone sees themselves and their abilities.

Creativity can have a healing effect on individuals with mental illness.

Stamina and confidence often needs to be rebuilt after experiences of mental illness.

I’m sitting in one of those 1970s black and white, tweed-cushioned, metal-framed chairs. It’s the artist’s lounge of the KickstART 2001 Disability Arts Festival at the Roundhouse Community Centre in downtown Vancouver. The Society for Disability Arts and Culture is hosting this inaugural international event. Out the window and across a tiled plaza, I see the neon sign of Gen Sushi. I am not hungry.

Beside me is David Roche, a seasoned storyteller, author, and actor who is presenting his acclaimed show The Church of 80% Sincerity, which

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