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The project's idea started during the preparations for the Basic Mental Health Kit, another initiative of the ManifestaMente organisation. Artists are often the ones who best convey a message, that's why they did song about mental health. The journey of getting their final song: an artist wrote some accessible, play, respectful lyrics about mental health, another artists made some illustrations and animated them to the sound of music and Telma Pereira was chosen as singer. In this initiative ManifestaMente is engaging and challenging the general public/ artists to share the song, invite others to do another version of the song and sing it, to create their own version of the song and share the created content via social media channels, by using #cantarpelasaudemental. The last challenge would be to create a personal song on the mental health topic.
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The song started to be played and sung by several groups:
1. The song was leveraged by one of our Local Promoters who launched the challenge to the Youth Wind Orchestra of Évora . Nine orchestra trainers who arranged the music and lyrics and 51 trainees.
2. Psychologists and teachers from the Guerra Junqueiro School Group in Freixo de Espada à Cinta , sang it as part of the celebration of World Mental Health Day. In it the students of 5thA, 5thB, 6thA, 6thB, 7thA and 7thB from all angles got involved.
3. A group of students from the Vértice Professional School in Paços de Ferreira, who presented it at a seminar in Amarante entitled 'Conversations on Mental Health'. The original song in Portuguese can be checked in the following link.