PYRENEES Hideout Festival is a one-day rock and country music festival being held at Beaufort on Saturday, 11 February.<\/p>\n
It feature Daryl Braithwaite, Kasey Chambers, The Black Sorrows and many more talented artists.<\/p>\n
Celebrating the best of the Pyrenees region, it’s set to be a fun day out for the whole family with something for everyone, including children\u2019s activities, special interest car display, markets, food and wine tasting.<\/p>\n
The aim of the event is to bring people together to encourage community connectedness and tackle isolation.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s been a difficult few years for the region, with bushfires, COVID and most recently floods, having an enormous impact on so many people.<\/p>\n
Pyrenees Hideout Festival director Frank Venuto personally felt the impact through loss of work, isolation along with the ongoing uncertainty of the events industry and the future of his business.<\/p>\n
It was a dark and anxious time while being isolated in a small rural town, without knowing where to turn or if and what local support services were available.<\/p>\n
Fortunately, things have gotten a lot better but no doubt there are a lot of people in similar or worse situations that just didn\u2019t know where to turn.<\/p>\n
Pyrenees Hideout Festival is supporting the organisation Rural & Remote Mental Health to further create awareness of mental health initiatives and the added difficulties of isolation from that living and breakdown barriers and stigma and encourage talking about mental health.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith COVID and mental health in the region, there\u2019s long standing gap between the services in both rural and remote areas receive,\u201d said Joe Hooper from Regional & Remote Mental Health<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a significant mental health problem in regional areas with high suicide rates and high rates of depression. The further you are out the higher the rates of mental health issues and issues in relation to access to services.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery Australian deserves the same access to care no matter where you live.\u201d<\/p>\n
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