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One in every five people live with mental illness each year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Attending the Song Contest will be a great way to connect with the community, while experiencing the talent on display by local musicians.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Surf Coast Song Contest will run at the Torquay Bowls Club on October 13.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple prizes are on offer this year including a recording of the winning song at Oxygen College&#8217;s Don&#8217;t Poke The Bear Studios (valued at $800), gifts from Music Workshop, and other contributions from supporting local businesses.<\/p>\n<p>The winning song will be featured in the 2023 Art of The Minds Festival and will be used to help create awareness of mental health and wellbeing.<\/p>\n<p>The winner will also be offered the opportunity to perform at next year&#8217;s festival launch and Song Contest.<\/p>\n<p>Registrations close on September 15.<\/p>\n<p>For details on how to participate, head to <a href=\"http:\/\/artoftheminds.org.au\">artoftheminds.org.au<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY JAMES TAYLORMUSICIANS are invited to tune up their entries for this year&#8217;s Surf Coast Song Contest, with entries now open and set to close in less than a month.The fourth edition of the annual contest &#8211; part of the Art of the Minds Festival &#8211; is returning this October and musicians can again have a go at claiming the grand prize: a recording of their winning song.Songs must follow this year&#8217;s contest theme, &#8220;Songs of Hope and Wellbeing&#8221; and is open to a range of instruments and genres.Art of the Minds president and principal mental health educator Jules Haddock knows of the positive effect music can have on mental health.&#8221;Something that is assisting in bridging the stigma of mental illness is seeing artists using music to open up about their own mental health,&#8221; she said.&#8221;Mental illness is something that affects us all. 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