Let’s Get Talking about Suicide Date: Saturday, 6th September 2025 |Time: 10:00am - 4:00pm
Location: Victoria Park, Portsmouth

Let’s Get Talking is a free community event that opens up honest conversations around suicide, mental health, and resilience.

Set in a supportive and creative space in Portsmouth's Victoria Park, the day brings together inspiring speakers, lived experience stories, mindful activities, movement workshops, and uplifting performances.
From Speakers’ Corner, where people share real journeys of survival, hope, and strength, to the Mindful and Physical Zones, where you can stretch, breathe, dance, or just slow down there’s something for everyone. Creative workshops, a doodle gallery, and community stalls add to the atmosphere of connection and care.
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At its heart, Let’s Get Talking is about reminding each of us that life is for living and no one has to face struggles alone. See below for the event map and event listing.

Speakers Corner

Main Stage 

• 11am Harry, a recovering addict who takes an ice bath every day, will share his inspirational story.
• 11.30am Andy and Katie share their lived experience from different perspectives.
• 12pm Laura Belbin (Knee Deep in Life), comedian, best-selling author and TikTok sensation, will share her mix of raw honesty and spot-on parodies, saying what everyone else is thinking.
• 12.30pm Joey Duffy, founder of MOO Coach, is a mental-health fitness coach and public speaker. His message is simple: “You’re never in the fight alone.”
• 1pm Tyler D’Cruz, TV star and inspirational speaker, shares his journey as a suicide survivor.
• 1.30pm Bianca Braitwaite, founding director of Mindset Maintenance, shares how she brings joy and light into everyday life.
• 2pm Sammie Burr, a thriving woman coach, reconnecting our bodies in a nourishing, empowering and feminine way.
• 2.30pm Duke Harrison-Hunter is a multidisciplinary creative and advocate for youth voice and visibility. Duke invites the audience to rethink what it means to truly listen and to create spaces where being seen is just the beginning.

10:00am Puffin Boy
10:30am Mantando Choir
11:00am Mental Health Rappers
11:30am Andy's Man Club
12:00pm Mark Gaizley Breathing Exercises
12:15pm Wonky Folk
12:45pm Stone Coast
TBC Fleeting Hearts
TBC Southerlies
​TBC Wishlist

Messages of Love and Hope ​Doodle Gallery

As part of this year’s Let’s Get Talking About Suicide event, Seekers Create will transform our tent into a temporary doodled gallery called Messages of Love and Hope. This participatory exhibition invites local artists and communities to respond to the theme through creativity, reflection, and connection. Over the years, we’ve contributed large-scale murals and public artworks at this event—each shaped by conversations, stories, and shared expression. This year, we're bringing it into the heart of the park with a walk-in doodled gallery filled with mixed-media pieces and public contributions.

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Aldingbourne Trust

Victoria Park

The feedback we had from previous events has been a positive one with services saying that the community were open to seeking support and those that have lost someone were grateful of the knowledge of a community of people who understood what they were going through.
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Following the success of last years community event we will again come together on September 6th 2025 for a day filled with love and hope in Victoria Park Portsmouth. Here’s a link to a short film of previous events.

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