 Mindscape Summit is a culmination of a two-and-a-half year project which takes into account multiple projects across multiple geographies. In Bangalore we have a lot of exhibition launches that have happened, a lot of projects that have been premiered during the summit. It was a really fantastic opportunity to work with the Unboxed Cultural Futures team and build out this summit for which we had a delegation of about 30 people that included staff from Welcome but also researchers, scientists, artists and curators travelled from Berlin, Tokyo, New York, San Francisco, LA and really to be able to create an immersive experience of three days in Bangalore across different menus for really deeply engaging in some of the work that we produced in Bangalore and also have conversations that were simultaneously global and local. It's got a strong focus on communities which is something that again in my work with governments doesn't very often happen or doesn't play such a big role so it's great to sort of see the focus on these communities which are really local and which makes it kind of really impactful. All the projects in a way touch upon these various nuances when talking about mental health. There is one project which tackles the idea of communicating more deeply with policy makers. One is about working with communities in Bangalore like gig workers or sex workers. There's a film that has been created that is by the community, by the people, depicting their own stories and their own experiences. So that's how our story goes. Our story goes from a small story to a small story. In the game you're playing the role of caregivers. The approach we come from is also that you can never identify with a person who's actually going through the challenges. The closest you can get is to be a caregiver and understand those challenges. It actually started off with a very interesting and informal conversation with Dr. Jain to kind of think about and see the potential of the archival case files that the Nimhans have preserved over many, many years and how can we sort of, you know, story tell from that. So you can understand madness through art, you can understand art through experience of madness All to the various facets of the human mind intersect with each other from the creative space to the so-called disabled space are the connections that we see between them and can we use things from either space to enrich the other. I've been working with the Minescape project now for two and a half years. The works are spread across three menus. One is Namakate, the leisure center that I run. The other one is Kani Ki. It's a community art center that's co-founded by me and Vivek and we have a larger set of artists who kind of come and work out of there and also some of the works are being shown here at MAP. Through the project of stitching their stories into a clock and that kind of like became really the red, red that the entire Minescape project then followed focusing on how do we speak, how do we listen, how do we empathize with people even if we don't share the same languages. So the project is primarily about how we can begin to understand the space of mental wellbeing of marginalized communities and particularly we have worked with the sex worker community in Bangalore. So what we have here is various stories of theirs, basically how they see the city and how the city sees them. I came first. We were so happy. I can't forget it to this day. I really wanted to complete my 10th standard but I couldn't because of poverty. So the film is based on these whole series of arts based, Promotive mental health groups that we ran. It's very liberating to be able to say that I am the facilitator but I'm also one. This next song is about remembering to live even in the tough times. We've danced. We've cried. We have learnt a lot and had many new ideas to take back with us to our different areas of practice. It opens up minds and I think that's what is very important, that minds are opened, new connections are explored, new opportunities are looked at and new solutions are also kind of devised in this interaction. So I think this is only the beginning of a collaboration which is really going to take us perhaps in so many different directions and that's really for me the excitement of such collaborations. Rest is radical. Rest is much needed for me. But also to my team of colleagues that have such a culture and society, I want to call off here.