The UK’s suicide prevention strategies tell us that suicide prevention is everyone’s business meaning that we should all take an active role in intervening when we think something might be wrong with someone in our lives. But is suicide prevention everyone’s business and do we all have equal power to intervene?

This event will be the first public exhibition of visual arts and creative writing produced by communities known to be at increased risk of suicide such as LGBTQ+ people, people criminalised through the justice system, homeless people, and people bereaved through suicide, and those that work with them, exploring exactly this.

The event will have three parts:

1.    1. A public exhibition of art, poetry, and a zine on the politics of suicide prevention generated through community workshops

2.    2.  A short talk on the research underpinning the exhibition (led in partnership between the University of Edinburgh and the University of Lincoln)

3.    3.  A zine making and poetry workshop to give attendees a chance to speak back to the exhibition if they would like to

This event is for anyone interested in UK suicide prevention and requires no previous knowledge – all are welcome!