ARTRIX is set to present a ‘groundbreaking’ art exhibition and film screening highlighting the debilitating condition M.E or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS).
Running from April 4 to May 20, ‘Invisible: A New Look at M.E’ will illustrate the effects of M.E/CFS, featuring images by Birmingham-based artist, writer and psychotherapist Anne Nicholls.
The free exhibition of art and verse aims to enlighten cynics and invite the viewer to walk a mile in the shoes of long term sufferers of the condition.
Artist, Anne Nicholls said: “Despite having painful and debilitating M.E. for the last 12 years, I’ve found art to be absorbing, therapeutic and fun.
“This exhibition, Invisible, is part of the international tide of rising awareness, it is a real and cruel disease can last decades.
“M.E impacts on our families, friends, colleagues and employers.
“Please don’t dismiss us. We want research. We want cure. We don’t want to be invisible anymore.”
Alongside this exhibition, Artrix has programmed a screening of the film ‘Unrest’ at 7.30pm on April 8.
This film tells the story of a young woman called Jen who is busy working on her PhD at Harvard and about to marry the love of her life.
In a short space of time, she suffers a series of viral infections that leave her incapacitated and so ill that she becomes bedbound, often in excruciating pain, and looking for answers.
Disbelieved by doctors and determined to live, she turns her camera on herself and her community, a hidden world of millions confined to their homes and bedrooms by M.E.
Unrest is also a love story, how Jen and her new husband Omar forge their relationship while dealing with her mysterious illness is at once heartbreaking, inspiring and funny.
Unrest is rated 12A and tickets are £7 each or £6 for concessions.
For tickets or further information visit www.artrix.co.uk or call Box Office on 01527 577330.
