The Suicide Chronicles: Conversations

Conversation Five: Annie, Lynda and Michele

Angela Samata chats with Annie, Lynda and Michele about the making of Chronicle Five: My Truth and Yours. The Suicide Chronicles is a project led by artist Mark Storor made with people whose lives have been affected by suicide. Each Chronicle takes focus on one individual story or one particular aspect of suicide and seeks to articulate this experience as a film. These conversations have been recorded with the people who made these films with Mark as a way of providing additional depth and context to their work. Angela Samata is a mental health campaigner working in the fields of suicide prevention and postvention. She is a consultant on the Suicide Chronicles project and has also contributed to this project as a participant. Helplines: Samaritans: 116123A safe place for you to talk anytime (24h, free). Papyrus: 0800 068 41 41Prevention of Young Suicide (free & confidential). AMPARO: 0330 088 9255 Support for anyone affected by suspected or actual suicide. Shout: text 85258The UK’s first text support for anyone in crisis, anywhere, anytime.

Conversation Four: Fergal, Martin and Pat

Angela Samata chats with Fergal, Martin and Pat about the making of Chronicle Five: My Truth and Yours. The Suicide Chronicles is a project led by artist Mark Storor made with people whose lives have been affected by suicide. Each Chronicle takes focus on one individual story or one particular aspect of suicide and seeks to articulate this experience as a film. These conversations have been recorded with the people who made these films with Mark as a way of providing additional depth and context to their work. Angela Samata is a mental health campaigner working in the fields of suicide prevention and postvention. She is a consultant on the Suicide Chronicles project and has also contributed to this project as a participant. Helplines: Samaritans: 116123A safe place for you to talk anytime (24h, free). Papyrus: 0800 068 41 41Prevention of Young Suicide (free & confidential). AMPARO: 0330 088 9255 Support for anyone affected by suspected or actual suicide. Shout: text 85258The UK’s first text support for anyone in crisis, anywhere, anytime.

Conversation Three: Pete

Angela Samata meets up with Pete Johnson to speak about the making of Suicide Chronicle Three: Full Of Grace; a film about Pete's lifelong search for an authentic way to express the grief felt for his mum who died by suicide when he was just a baby. Pete and Angela also talk about how they became friends and how this friendship led Pete to working with Mark Storor. The Suicide Chronicles is a project led by artist Mark Storor made with people whose lives have been affected by suicide. Each Chronicle takes focus on one individual story or one particular aspect of suicide and seeks to articulate this experience as a film. These conversations have been recorded with the people who made these films with Mark as a way of providing additional depth and context to their work. Angela Samata is a mental health campaigner working in the fields of suicide prevention and postvention. She is a consultant on the Suicide Chronicles project and has also contributed to this project as a participant. A full transcript of this episode can be viewed on our website. [https://www.heartofglass.org.uk/cms/documents/Pete-Johnson-Transcript.pdf] Helplines: Samaritans: 116123A safe place for you to talk anytime (24h, free). Papyrus: 0800 068 41 41Prevention of Young Suicide (free & confidential). AMPARO: 0330 088 9255 Support for anyone affected by suspected or actual suicide. Shout: text 85258The UK’s first text support for anyone in crisis, anywhere, anytime.

Conversation Two: Jo and Lisa

Angela Samata meets with Jo Lyne and Lisa Vint to reflect upon the making of Chronicle One: Grief. This conversation remembers the processes behind the making of this film, their bravery, raw honesty and forging new friendships. The Suicide Chronicles is a project led by artist Mark Storor made with people whose lives have been affected by suicide. Each Chronicle takes focus on one individual story or one particular aspect of suicide and seeks to articulate this experience as a film. These conversations have been recorded with the people who made these films with Mark as a way of providing additional depth and context to their work. Angela Samata is a mental health campaigner working in the fields of suicide prevention and postvention. She is a consultant on the Suicide Chronicles project and has also contributed to this project as a participant. Jo Lyne, Lisa Vent and Angela have each lost a partner to suicide. They met through SoBS (Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide) [https://uksobs.org/] support network. A full transcript of this episode can be viewed on our website [https://www.heartofglass.org.uk/projects-and-events/projects/the-suicide-chronicles-conversations]. Helplines: Samaritans: 116123A safe place for you to talk anytime (24h, free). Papyrus: 0800 068 41 41Prevention of Young Suicide (free & confidential). AMPARO: 0330 088 9255 Support for anyone affected by suspected or actual suicide. Shout: text 85258The UK’s first text support for anyone in crisis, anywhere, anytime.

Conversation One: Angela and Mark

Angela Samata meets with Mark Storor, the artist behind The Suicide Chronicles project. In this conversation, the pair discuss how this project began as an artistic questioning of civilisation (our most brutal act of barbarism?) and evolved into a body of work through which personal experiences of suicide can be articulated truthfully. Mark is an artist who specialises in platforming the voices of those we all too rarely choose to hear. He usually works over several years to create extraordinarily beautiful and uplifting work in which community participants and professionals work side by side in genuine partnership. Mark is currently working with Heart of Glass on a twelve year project called Baa Baa Baric, Have you any pull? [https://www.heartofglass.org.uk/projects-and-events/projects/baa-baa-baric] and over the past four years of this work he’s been focused on The Suicide Chronicles [https://www.heartofglass.org.uk/projects-and-events/projects/the-suicide-chronicles], which seeks to develop a collective and creative language for the complex experience of suicide. Angela Samata is a mental health campaigner working in the fields of suicide prevention and postvention. She is a consultant on the Suicide Chronicles project and has also contributed to this project as a participant. A full transcript of this episode can be viewed on our website. [https://www.heartofglass.org.uk/projects-and-events/projects/the-suicide-chronicles-conversations] Helplines: Samaritans: 116123A safe place for you to talk anytime (24h, free). Papyrus: 0800 068 41 41Prevention of Young Suicide (free & confidential). AMPARO: 0330 088 9255 Support for anyone affected by suspected or actual suicide. Shout: text 85258The UK’s first text support for anyone in crisis, anywhere, anytime.