I've been super busy with any spare time organising The Depressed Cake Shop pop up event for Leeds which will take place this Sunday 4th August from 10.30-4pm at the Leeds Corn Exchange.
The Depressed Cake Shop is
part of a global network of shops, founded by Miss Cakehead, selling grey coloured cakes and cakes which
represent mood to raise awareness of mental health issues and provide a
platform for discussion.
One in four people will suffer from mental
illness at some point in their lives, a key theme will be also be reflected in
many of the cakes designs.
The symptoms of depression can be
complex – and vary widely – and so will the cakes on sale, many aiming to
visually represent mental illness. This will be a cake shop like nothing else seen before, the grey sad looking
but delicious tasting cakes powerfully demonstrating the effects of depression.
Cakes on sale at the Leeds Corn
Exchange will include cakes and baked goods fitting within the theme, baked by
over fifteen local bakers, both professional and non-professional taking part in the
event. 100% of sales from each and every cake will be donated to Inkwell and
Dial House, two very important and worthy mental health charities within Leeds.
Many of our cakes will also
be made by those with personal experiences of depression, using baking as a way
of expressing their struggles with, and experiences of, the illness.
For more information on the event please see below:
It would be great to have your support - See you Sunday!
