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UPDATE…we have changed the festival date to Sunday, 1st May 2011 to allow more time for the community to get to know us and understand the mission of the Utopia Research Institute.

Parkland Main Dinningroom

The Festival will raise funding for the proposed Parkland Project to include, the Callan Park Community Centre, Family Clinic, Youth Club and Mental Health Research Facility and is still expected to attract over 10,000 visitors and local supporters and yes…mass media attention, including a live global video.

The Callan Park Festival will have three fundraising entertainment areas and lots of roving performers and free entertainment too. There will be heaps of kids programs, face painting, puppet shows, clowns, magicians & the Queen of the Fairies and her court, a farmers market and bargain hunters fair with food stalls, art exhibits and roving performers.

So nothing has changed except the date. The Utopia Research Institute’s Callan Park Festival will still be celebrating Mental Health by honouring mental health consumers, their carers, family, friends and the community that supports them.

Parkland Tea Room

Our goal is to utilise the recently vacated builds in the grounds of Callan Park, Lilyfield in Leichhardt Council. The area for the proposed projects is called the Parkland. The Department of Health is the land owners on behalf of those with mental illness, so we will be making a proposal on behalf of the community

The Parkland Community Projects will touch not only those in the local community of Leichhardt, it will enrich the lives of the wider community in the greater Sydney Metropolitan area.

Your hosts for this fabulous event is Generation Y, with over 700 young  (18 to 25) volunteers that are eager to use their knowledge, skills, social media and networking contacts to spread the word about mental ill health and its prevention.

It should be a glorious day with a crispness to the air so welcome after a long hot summer and a great day to be out and about and a very good omen for a festival that’s honouring those with mental health issues.

With your support, we can make life easier for those that are afflicted with mental (and physical) health issues, their carers, family, friends and the entire community.

Please join us today by supporting the Callan Park Mental Health Festival!