 A place of belonging can be characterized by many things, continuity, familiarity, growth, meaning, safety. So a lot of those are also aspects of mental health and mental well-being as well. My name is Christine Wong Yeh. I'm a visual artist and social practitioner. I'm based in the San Francisco Bay Area in California, USA. I'm a Minescapes artist-in-residence at large. My Minescapes residency is taking place in Los Angeles, New York, Berlin, Bangalore and Tokyo. So the overall goal of the project is to invite people to community-based workshops and ask people to share about their experience of belonging. Whether it's connected to a place, a ritual, a system or practice, a style of communication that makes people feel seen and heard, to ask people to reflect on those kinds of questions and then to talk about an experience or activity that they do related to that experience of belonging. In New York, I'm working with teens at the New York Public Library and also a high school fashion industry around creating paper dolls for anti-prom, which is an LGBTQ-inclusive space for teens. In Berlin, I'm working with the library to connect with different community groups such as teenagers learning English and also community groups who work at a community garden. In Tokyo, I'm working with seniors. In Bangalore, I am working with the Museum of Art and Photography to connect with some of their community groups. In LA, I'm working with the Library Foundation of Los Angeles as well as the LA Public Library. I'm sewing seven banners. Each banner represents one club or affinity group. We looked especially at clubs or affinity groups that represent spaces of belonging for people. I think a place of belonging is a place where you can feel safe, seen and accepted. A lot of times people talk about vulnerability and authenticity, like a place where they can really be who they are and feel free from being judged. And that actually has a lot to do with psychological safety. Direct participants in the workshop, and I would love for them to get a sense of self-expression, self-knowledge and then for them to take away a new understanding about their relationship to belonging. My goal is to have people create activity sheets that other people can do and then to compile them into a zine. So there will be one zine per city so that all the participants get activities from all around the world that are examples of things that people do to feel a sense of belonging. Place is context, right? So it's social, it's political, it's cultural. The big challenge with mental health is destigmatizing mental health and creating more access to mental wellness resources. So across all those different realms, social, political, cultural, there's lots of opportunities and work to be done.