This creative project encourages interaction between groups of people who normally would not meet and increases awareness of mental illness and the power of classical music.

Creative Minds in Song is a ground-breaking social project pioneered by Song in the City that explores the deep link between mental illness and creativity. Bringing together writers from MIND in Tower Hamlets and Newham with postgraduate students from the Guildhall School, the project inspires the co-creation of brand-new songs over a series of workshops, written by those with lived experience of mental illness in collaboration with Guildhall School composers, pianists and singers. Through poetry and music, the project gives the experience of those who have suffered from mental illness a creative life. The project has seen several world premiere performances of songs including at Milton Court, Barbican, London that tell the story of the project and its participants through words and music.