A Wellington nurse is seeking ‘crowd funding’ to release a CD of music by a community mental health initiative.
Sendam Rawkustra has been “banging away’ creating music for the past five years at Newtown’s The Clubhouse, a service offering peer support to people with past or current experience of mental illness.
Kieran Monagahan, a drummer with the initiative as part of his community outreach work for Newtown Union Health Service, said Sendam recorded an album of music in the middle of last year at the Newtown Community Centre.
Before Christmas, the initiative started seeking ‘crowd funding’ through an online site to help raise the $3000 needed to produce a CD. He said to date it had raised 60 per cent and is now making a further appeal to raise the remaining funds needed.
More information on the project is available at http://www.pozible.com/index.php/archive/index/11200/description/0/0
To read a 2011 Nursing Review story about Monaghan’s work as a primary health nurse with mental health focus – including the weekly Sendam drumming sessions – go to: bit.ly/UR0cyK
