Adventures With Depression - Fringe Festival

Artist and activist, Kate Aschoff, has experienced depression since they were 14. Here Kate will present stories and experiences from the last 20 years of their life. We're hoping this adventure will end up taking them somewhere that feels home and we that hope you'll come too.

I've been creating content around my depression and mental illness for years now. Photography, poems, drawing, videos, prose. I'm still exploring this sickness and illness in as many ways and art forms as I can. For me, expressing and talking about these experiences is the most healing thing I could possibly do.

I'm in charge of my own story and am able to create the opportunity for myself to share things I don't know how to put into words. It helps heal me and helps others understand and identify our shared connections and experiences, being able to have other people see their own stories in my art is the most rewarding thing. Storytelling is a powerful thing and I have so many of them to tell.