Wellness Roadshow

The Impetus

The Show Must Go On was always intended as a starting point to ignite a much bigger conversation about mental health in the arts and entertainment industry and beyond.

Running alongside the release of the film has been a national Wellness Roadshow that has taken place throughout Australia in 2020. Each event included the screening of the film as an introduction into the conversation, along with targeted conversations, workshops and case studies that began to examine the ways in which change can occur within the industry from the top down, rather than putting all responsibility on individuals. Resources and experts spoke specifically about the local support available for each community.

COVID-19 saw a large portion of the arts and entertainment industries face incredible financial and isolation challenges that contributed to increasing levels of emotional and psychological stress, we can’t help but acknowledge a events of this nature has been more timely than ever as our creative industries navigate roads to recovery.

With the ability to bring in experts and partnerships with organisations such as Entertainment Assist and Arts Wellbeing Collective, these events can be tailored to explore specific topics such as:

• Supporting individual wellbeing within large organisations 

• Business for creatives (finances, inconsistent work etc)

• Overcoming anxiety & depression as a creative

• Help for human resources

Previous Events

The Wellness Roadshow was officially launched at Arts Centre Melbourne  on October 9, 2019 following the release of The Show Must Go On (dir. Ben Steel) on ABC Television. Since then we have had a number of live forums throughout Australia to enable arts and entertainment practitioners to discuss mental well-being, including events in Sydney, Adelaide, Screen Forever, ASPAH Conference and education screenings at Victorian College of the Arts and JMC Academy in Melbourne. 

Demands from coronavirus in the beginning of 2020 saw the Wellness Roadshow take on a new shape and pivot into the online space in a series of wellbeing webinars for Queensland, Western Australia, Tasmania, Ballarat/Castlemaine, the City of Melbourne, and the staff of the Sydney Opera House. More recently we created & delivered a series of five wellbeing webinars specifically for workers in the screen industry - Screen Well.

The national Wellness Roadshow will continue to roll out throughout Australia in 2021. If you or your organisation would like to arrange your own event or receive further information, please contact diana@filmartmedia.com.