How you or your organisation can help
Liberate happiness and wellbeing, one audience at a time!
Join in and support a very different way of strengthening people’s sense of wellbeing and resilience.
With your help we can bring this unique show to the widest possible audience all over the UK.
HTSAT at Edinburgh Festival Fringe!
“Steve and Chris have created this fabulous show designed to support our staff to continue on their wellbeing journey. It promises to be fun, thought provoking and an oasis of wellbeing. We can’t wait to see the show!”
Laura Waters, Head of Arts, University Hospitals of Derby and Burton
Co-chair, National Performance Advisory Group (NPAG) for Arts, Design and Heritage in Hospitals
Mischievous, subversive, fun and fizzing with wisdom, How to Survive and Thrive in a Impossible World (with a piano), is an invitation to stand back and laugh at a world that is quite clearly bonkers, and take a timeout to realise a better way of dealing with it. Almost impossible to describe, the best we can do is a “interactive, wellbeing musical, show thingy!"
The show is going to the world famous Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2023 and using those appearances as a springboard to a national tour in 2024.
A radical approach to developing greater wellbeing as old as the hills!
Why it works
The show was developed by award-winning psychologist, writer and performer, Steve Carter (pen name Steve Bonham) and put together in collaboration with creative producer Chris ‘the Bishop’ Lydon. It is based upon the realisation that many well-being interventions only address the rational, conscious parts of our brain; yet the roots of stress, anxiety and feelings of helplessness and hopelessness lie in the unconscious. It is through those ancient remedies of laughter, story, song and dance that these are best addressed. The show blends the very latest in psychological insight with these universal ideas to produce a performance which is engaging, potent and quite extraordinary!
The core message is that well-being is less about passively coping and more about proactivity and reinvention for a very different world.
How you can help… *
(as an individual)
Please consider sponsoring us by getting your hands on one our fantastic mystery boxes - we can’t tell you what’s in it as then it wouldn’t be a mystery (duh!). But we promise you it’s packed with great rewards and each one will have something unique for you only.
Just £30 and worth far more
Our goal is to raise
£4,000, which will:
Support our participation at Edinburgh,
Fund a publicity campaign through which we can engage directly with promoters, agents and venues by using the Fringe as a springboard to create a 2024 national tour
Enable us to deliver the show for free to communities where it could really help
Develop a website and app for ongoing support
Corporate Sponsors Your £500 offers you…
A quarter-page ad or statement in our show programme that will be on sale throughout the Festival and through 2024.
A logo or name on our flyers which will be distributed widely throughout the duration of the Festival.
A feature on the HTSAT and the Artisan Creative website.
A regular feature in our social media campaigns both up to and including the Festival and for the 2024 tour.
Two complimentary tickets for any of the Edinburgh shows.
Other sponsorship opportunities
For our individual fund raising campaign, we are offering a "Bishop’s Mystery Box", a special gift of various items relevant to the show sent to an individual for donations over £30. Your organisation could buy one or several of these.
Your organisation could sponsor a performance of the show either for a community group in which you are involved or your staff.
We are keen to find a way of working with you that meets your needs, so please see the suggestions above very much as a starting point for creative conversations.
An NHS survey carried out in 2017 found that an average of 1 in 9 young people had a mental health problem. They repeated the survey in 2021 and that figure had shot up to 1 in 6.
Estimates suggest that in any one year 1:4 adults will suffer from anxiety, depression or other mental health issues.
The personal, social, organisational and economic costs of this are dangerously high.
Be wild, be strong, be experimental, travel with companions and take the first step.
Steve Carter is an award-winning business psychologist with global experience of helping individuals and organisations thrive. Working as Steve Bonham, he is also a successful musician and writer.
Christopher Lydon is a successful musician and creative producer. He has worked with the Hallé, the BBC, the National Youth Orchestra of GB, performed all across the UK and Europe, including at Glastonbury Festival.
Together, they have developed and performed a variety of shows supported by Arts Council England and toured widely throughout the UK.
