Mojo Festival of Arts 2025
A dazzling awesome galaxy of creative performance art for World Schizophrenia Day (and everything else not remotely related!)
Date and time
Location
Fringe Common Rooms
Victoria Street Carlton, VIC 3053 AustraliaRefund Policy
About this event
- Event lasts 3 hours
Welcome to Mojo Festival of Arts 2025!
Lived Experience like nothing ever seen in the dusty mental health system.
Mojo Festival at FRINGE Common Rooms Ballroom is the amazing setting for the biggest mental health lived experience party ever to circle round the sun! Featuring a stellar line up from the Schizy Inc performance arts collective of diverse artists, thinkers, philosophers and creative provocateurs having the most epic creative renegade fun in honour of World Schizophrenia Day.
Get your tickets to be part of this world-leading event to experience everything possible - and happening, in the world of the arts and Disability pride. Tickets are limited. No further tickets will be available once sold out.
Ticket Subsidy.
Mojo has a limited number of free tickets for anyone experiencing financial stress and wishing to attend the event.
If you're currently loaded, please consider making a donation to support the work of Schizy Inc.
Email us for info: mojo@schizy.org
Disability Access.
Wheelchair and diverse mobility accessible, including toilets and stage.
Sensory respectful (no bright or flashing lights, loud music or fast-paced content). Quiet area.
Mental Health and other Support Dogs welcome - dogs that aren't legally Accredited (ie Guide Dogs, MIND), must be quiet, very well socialised with other dogs and people, calm and well trained. No excitable, aggressive, jumpy or nervous dogs, or dogs that require a lot of continuous vocal command. Support Dogs must not approach other people without consent. Risk remains the onus of the Owner.
Complex trauma aware.
Content Advice - PG Rating.
Mojo contains low-level content advice. This includes some swearing, references to sex, gender, psych wards, oppression, relationships, substance, religion, mendications, medical coersion, generational, situational and social trauma (eg poverty, homelessness).
However Artists have taken care that any such allusions are necessary context to the work being presented and be of a low-level/sensory aware impact. Artists will not wilfully cause triggers for audience and other artists (eg no explicit depictions of violence).
*Social Worker on site for general check in, as required or requested by any audience member, artist and Schizy Inc event production team.
Ticket Priority for Lived Experience Audience.
Mojo discourages bulk buying or group stacking - Venue has a maximum room capacity so be mindful about who's in the audience.
Love Comedy?
Schizy Inc presents RAD CACTUS!
'Rad Cactus' - Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Riotously fun and pertinent stand up comedy shows by stand up comedians with lived experience of diverse perspectives of menta l health and anything not even related!
Including a Neurodiverse Comedy Open Mic Stage and Scratch Night to test out material and new artists.
April 1, 3 and 12
Grouse Bar, Fitzroy VIC.
Head on over to the Rad Cactus Comedy event page:
RAD CACTUS
www.comedyfestival.com.au/browse-shows/rad-cactus
Frequently asked questions
Schizy Inc are a community of people with lived experience of complex mental health. We understand the realities around complex trauma so artists to take care not to include triggering themes in their work. We want you to have fun and go home feeling good and optimistic!
Accredited mental health Support Dogs are welcome. Companion dogs are not permitted due to the unknown risks around social safety.
Yes.
No, we love our audiences to be a full expression of humanity! To be a Schizy Inc artist you do need to relate to any mental health diagnosis including bipolar, depression, BPd etc or identify personally with complex mental health.
Schizy Inc doesn't do art therapy. We're Australia's most established professionally based arts organisation for creative people with complex mental health to explore real vocations in the arts. We support people to enjoy just being a hobby artist through to people building a viable arts profile.
Because psych appointments generally don't leave you feeling this awesome!
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The most fun mental health advocacy in the universe!