Mad Pride Toronto

THANKS!

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We wish to thank all of the Mad Pride organizers, participants, and sponsors for making this year's Mad Pride the most successful to date! We'll be back in the spring to starting planning Mad Pride 2011!

Thanks everyone!

MAD PRIDE 2010 ARTICLE (insidetoronto.com)

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MAD PRIDE 2010 BED PUSH VIDEO (insidetoronto.com)

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Mad Pride 2010 advance comprehensive listing

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Mad Pride 2010 advance comprehensive listing

Check updates @ www.madpridetoronto.blogspot.com

In Toronto July 12 – 18 is Mad Pride Week. A strong and
tenacious tradition of community celebration, education and recognition in the name of pride makes our Mad Pride Week here in Toronto extra special.

“The first known event specifically organized as a
Pride event by people who identify as psychiatric survivors/consumer/ex-patients was in Toronto, Canada when it was called ‘psychiatric survivor’ pride Day” held on September 18, 1993. It was first held in response to local community prejudices towards people with a psychiatric history living in boarding homes in the Parkdale area of the city, and has been held every year since then in this city except 1996.” (Wikipedia 2010, The Consumer/Survivor Information Resource Centre Bulletin, No 374, July 14 2008:2-3)

Certainly we hope you are able to attend this great and empowering event, and encourage others to do the same!

LISTINGS All events are free and accessible.*indicates refreshments

Monday July 12th: 3:30pm to8pm*
May Robinson Auditorium, 20 Westlodge Ave.
Mad and Proud By Houselink
Featuring: PCLS Legal Jeopardy – No Your Rights
-Presentations about ‘What gives us strength’
-Movie: ‘These Broken Wings’ – 75 min, documentary
Featuring the stories of two women who recovered from schizophrenia: Joanne Greenberg, author of the best selling novel I Never Promised You A Rose Garden, and Catherine Penney, a mental health nurse in California whose healing tale was chronicled by her therapist Daniel Norman MD, in the book Dante’s Cure: A journey out of madness.
-film is followed by discussion

Tuesday July 13th: 1pm to 3pm
Parkdale Activity Recreation Centre, 1499 Queen Street West
Living Archives Project

The Living Archive Project is a community initiative run out of the Parkdale Activity Recreation Centre that aims to re-tell the history of PARC and Parkdale through film, performance and historical preservation done by and for PARC members. This year, we will present a short history of our project and screen our new short film: Survivors on Surviving” staring Alice and John Rogers.

2.
Wednesday July 14th: 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Gather on the southwest corner of Queen and Shaw
do to construction at the former patio site
1001 Queen Street West (Ossington Entrance)
The Patient Built Wall Tour
*featuring prelude w. May F.
By Geoffrey Reaume, of Psychiatric Survivor Archives Toronto
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Thursday July 15th, 1pm to 4pm*
Members Lounge, Toronto City Hall
100 Queen Street West.
Still Crazy After All These Years*
By Consumer Survivor Show Case
RSVP to Timothy@awaycourier.ca
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Friday July 16th, 5pm – 10pm*
May Robinson Auditorium
20 Westlodge Ave
Mad Culture Jam: -Dream Team – 5pm
-Open Stage - 5:30pm
-Pandemic Theatre – Imbalance 6:30
-A Tale of Intolerance, Charlene Zack 7pm
-The Friendly Spike Theatre Band presents
A reading of their new play
The Dega and The Delbasid -7:30pm
-Skit about Special Diet Changes, by Myrna Schacherl– 8:30pm
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Saturday July 17th, 1pm – 5pm*
Gather at the southwest corner of Queen and Shaw
do to construction at the former patio site
1001 Queen Street West and Parade
To PARC 1499 Queen W
Fourth Annual BedPush Parade,
Featuring
-An historical scene
-The PARC Drummers!
-The Bobbi Nahwegahbow Memorial Award
-Mad Pride Honors
-Party at PARC

Mad Pride!

STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS!

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June 30th, 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

"STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS!"
CSI TORONTO CELEBRATES MAD PRIDE WEEK
WITH A SURVIVOR SHOWCASE

On Thursday, July 15th Mad Pride Week will be celebrated at Toronto City Hall with a showcase of unique enterprises and initiatives. This enlightening and entertaining event will feature live music and spoken word performances, special presentations, free food and beverages and an Information Fair. This is a great opportunity to witness the creative potential of madness, as well as learning about the challenges faced by survivors. The Survivor Showcase is organized by the Toronto Consumer-Survivor Initiatives Network.

Consumer Survivor Initiatives are self-help groups, alternative businesses and support services managed and staffed by and for consumers of mental health services and other survivors of mental health challenges. The Toronto CSI Network is comprised of all the Consumer Survivor Initiatives (CSI) in the Toronto Central LHIN region. The Members of the Toronto CSI Network are:

A-Way Express Courier Service (Network Lead)
Friends and Advocates
C/S Information Resource Centre of Toronto
Ontario Council of Alternative Businesses
The Empowerment Council at CAMH
Sound Times Support Services
Fresh Start Cleaning and Maintenance

In addition to showcasing the work of these CSIs, we have also invited other survivor-led organizations to celebrate with us, including:

Mad Students Society
Psychiatric Survivor Archives of Toronto
Friendly Spike Theatre
The Dream Team

The event will be held in the Members' Lounge at Toronto City beginning at 1:00 p.m. Thursday, July 15th, 2010.

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For more information, please contact Laurie Hall, Executive Director, A-Way Express, CSI Network Lead at:

416-424-2266

Mad Pride Week - July 12 - 18, 2010

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Mad Pride Week

July 12 — 18, 2010

WHEREAS there are men and women around the world, from all walks of life and of all ages, who face mental health difficulties and challenges during their lives.

Emotional trauma has profound consequences on the quality of life of individuals and families and an economic impact on society.

Service organizations and agencies in our community raise public awareness about the discrimination and stigma attached to mental health. The promotion and awareness of mental illness is often achieved through the works of artists, educational endeavours and other supportive actions and efforts.

The fight for human rights and the elimination of discrimination and injustice help protect the rights of psychiatric survivors and other marginalized individuals, thereby empowering and improving their sense of well-being and quality of life.

We must all commit to the values of acceptance, self-determination and respect of individuality, and develop strong beliefs in the intrinsic worth and dignity of every human being.

NOW THEREFORE, I, Mayor David Miller, on behalf of Toronto City Council, do hereby proclaim July 12 — 18, 2010 as "Mad Pride Week" in the City of Torontand encourage all residents to support equal rights for everyone.

Mad Pride Hits Cork

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Mad Pride hits Cork

Written by Christine Allen

Thursday, 20 May 2010

The battle against the stigma of mental illness will leap forward this weekend as the Mad Pride Family Fun Days kick off in Cork and Kerry to celebrate the "normality of madness". The third annual event hits Fitzgerald's Park on Sunday 6 June and will take place from 1 to 5pm and aims to break down stigma and increase awareness and understanding of mental illness.

Founded in 2008 by Cork Independent columnist, John McCarthy, the free event will feature entertainment by musical acts, street performers and clowns, as well as featuring food stalls.

"I am so proud to be holding our third event in Cork, when we started we never thought we would have had such an impact in such a short space of time," Mr McCarthy said.

The founder, who set up the event to promote the "normality of madness", said that plans were being made to bring Mad Pride Family Fun Day to Tullamore this year also. Since the foundation of the event, the fun days have also being run and enjoyed by over 20,000 people in Cork, Portlaoise and even Mbula Uganda.

HSE support

The HSE is also backing Mad Pride to host the family fun day in Killarney National Park on Saturday 22 May, encouraging the best practice in the fight against stigma in mental health as part of their International Conference being held in Kerry this week. Mr McCarthy said the support of the HSE was encouraging.

"The reaction of the public has been great but it is the fact that the establishment are waking up to the message we are spreading that gives us most encouragement. There seems to be an awakening to the need to look outside the current medical model, there seems to be awareness among some in the system that those suffering from emotional distress may not be best served through medication and incarceration," he said.

"We will continue to spread our message that through love and hope the community as a whole can live together with equality and dignity, and quite simply embrace difference and recognise the normality of madness." He invited families and individuals to come to the Cork venue on Sunday 6 June to join in the fun, laughter and music.

"There will be no speeches, no preaching and no lectures. We will simply enjoy each other's company in an open friendly fun way and hope that by doing so we can begin to focus on the positive gifts that we in the mad community bring to society, art, poetry, literature, eccentricity and sensitivity and dispense with the prejudice and fear that presently surrounds us," he said.

For more information about Mad Pride Ireland and Mad Pride Family Fun Days, visit www.madprideireland.ie

Mad professor? Sure, and he’s full of `mad pride’

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Mad professor? Sure, and he’s full of `mad pride’

April 30, 2010

Judy Gerstel

SPECIAL TO THE STAR

The “mad man” was making a joke.

He was talking about the stigma of madness and how, because of historical context and cultural cues like movies, people equate madness with evil.

“That stereotype exists, the mad man with an Uzi in one hand and a machete in the other,” says David Reville. “We all carry it in our heads.”

And that’s why, explains Reville, speaking for mad people. “We get bent out of shape whenever something hideous does happen.”

For example, he says, when someone on a bus cuts the head off another passenger, as happened two summers ago in Manitoba. “Now that’s mad,” he said, in reference to the man who was later found not guilty of murder because he is schizophrenic and was suffering from a major psychotic episode.

Of course, most mad people are not dangerous, he points out. They’re no different from you and me.

(Chances are, they are you and me; one out of five Canadians will experience mental illness, advises Health Canada.)

“I’m never going to harm you physically,” says Reville. “I’m not going to cut your head off — but I might talk your head off.”

As with all good jokes, there’s truth in that, because Reville does, in fact, proceed to talk non-stop for more than two hours — even though he still has a stack of papers to mark for the courses he teaches at Ryerson: A History of Madness, a liberal arts course, and Mad People’s History, a similar course offered online for the first time this year by the G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education.

But then, Reville has lots to talk about – and lots of experience doing it.

Now 67, he was 22 when he dropped out of law school because of “what is euphemistically called a nervous breakdown.” After two years in Kingston Psychiatric Hospital, Reville became a plumber, then owner of a successful plumbing business. (He was first diagnosed with what is now called bipolar affective disorder, and takes an anti-depressant.

``The antidote to madness for me is political activism, advocacy work and conscious-raising,’’ says Reville.

He spent two terms on Toronto City Council and two terms as a New Democratic MPP at Queen’s Park (elected in 1985 and again in 1987). He talked the heads off constituents, colleagues, the media and anyone in the vicinity of his voice, actual or virtual, about poverty, homelessness, unemployment, social exclusion, human rights and the consequences of being labelled, “medicalized” and “psychiatrized”—the latter term being a particular favorite.

Reville once made another widely quoted joke, about how he joined the NDP because he was mentally ill.

That one, too, was based on truth.

“I was trying to explain that, while locked up in a mental hospital, I was in a position to observe what the power structure did to people on the bottom end of it and what it felt like to be completely powerless,” he explains. Having experienced that, “you would join a political party trying to do something about it.”

Now he talks to students and other “high knowledge crazies” – another term he’s fond of and one he invented—about the history of madness and the mad movement.

The label Reville uses most for himself is “psychiatric survivor” but he’s kind of partial to “mad professor,” though modestly insisting he’s not a professor, merely a part-time instructor in the School of Disability Studies.

If he were of a younger generation, he says, he might go with “crazy” or “lunatic” or “wacko” – increasingly popular terms of self-reference in the mad movement, properly known as the “consumer/ survivor/ ex-patient movement (C/S/X).”

“It’s a compound word because it reflects the different ways members of the movement describe themselves,” explains Reville.

Labels like “lunatic,” he says, are a way of “queering madness — jamming the culture by taking the most pejorative terms and embracing them, the way people in the gay movement did. It happens in many equity-seeking movements.”

The mad liberation movement that gave rise to, and is explored in, Reville’s courses, along with the horrors, ignorance and indignities that preceded it, owes a debt, he says, to other human rights and liberation movements: feminism, black pride, gay pride.

“We have the same roots,” he says, “but have not been as successful, perhaps because we’ve been even more marginalized and because it’s so dangerous to come out as a mad person. Many of us pass for normal – and that’s a rational decision to make.”

But it’s the narratives of people who not only come out as mad but “who talk back to psychiatry” that are prominent in the courses he teaches.

“A lot of the course is about mad people who are activists, trying to change the way madness is viewed by society, and about what happens to people who are identified as mad,” he explains.

Reville believes we’re on the cusp of including Mad Studies in the academic world in the same way Women’s Studies have become enshrined.

Meanwhile, his students are learning that Mad Pride is a growing and evolving movement.

The Mad Pride parade and celebration in Toronto on July 14, coinciding with Bastille Day, is part of an international celebration of mad pride on that day. “We changed the name from Psychiatric Survivor Pride,” explains Reville.

But the change that excites Reville most, after all these years, “is to see young people at the university who are themselves mad-identified. This is new, an intellectual innovation whereby people who have had some experience with madness or mental illness or the mental health system are now studying the phenomenon itself.”

About the video

Would you call yourself a lunatic? If you had good reason to, you might. Video interviews show society’s treatment of those who live with mental illness

We call mad people lots of names. Most of them are not meant to be complimentary. But what do mad people call themselves? Do they accept labels that others stick to them? Do they apply their own labels? Why might one person choose a different label than another? Twelve Toronto activists discuss how they identify themselves.

The film clip is a part of an online course called “Mad People’s History,” taught at The Chang School by self-described “mad professor” David Reville, an instructor with the School of Disability Studies at Ryerson University.

Mad Pride Week 2010

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Come one! Come all!

Help plan Mad Pride Week 2010

If you want to organize Mad Pride Week 2010 with us, join us on Friday, June 4th, June 11th, June 18th, June 25th, July 2nd and July 9th from 3 pm – 5 pm at Parkdale Community Legal Services, 1266 Queen Street West.

For more info call Peggy-Gail at 416-531-2411 ext. 247 or Ruth Ruth at 416-516-4740 or email to friendlyspike@primus.ca

Visit us at: www.madpridetoronto.blogspot.com

WORDS ON THE WALL: GEOFFREY REAUME IN CONVERSATION WITH RUTH RUTH

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WORDS ON THE WALL: GEOFFREY REAUME IN CONVERSATION WITH RUTH RUTH

To celebrate the re-issue of his groundbreaking study, Remembrance Of Patients Past (University of Toronto Press), scholar and activist Geoffrey Reaume will conduct a walking tour of the wall surrounding the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH ) grounds at 1001 Queen St. West. He will then guide the group to the Gladstone Hotel, where he will have an on-stage conversation Ruth Ruth Stackhouse of Friendly Spike Theatre Band. Three of the installation pieces from The Story Behind The Wall, an exhibition by Workman Arts (WA) inspired by Reaume’s text, will be featured on-stage. There will be a silent auction of bricks painted by local artists. Proceeds from the auction will be donated to the Psychiatric Survivors Archives of Toronto (PSAT) for the purpose of purchasing commemorative plaques detailing the history of the 19th century patient-built wall and other aspects of unpaid patient labour. Marc Glassman, Executive Director of This Is Not A Reading Series, will host the evening event. – A TINARS event presented by University of Toronto Press, Gladstone Hotel, NOW Magazine, Torontoist.com, Take Five On CIUT, Psychiatric Survivor Archives of Toronto and Workman Arts.
Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen St West, Toronto
Wed Apr 21: 8:00pm (Doors 7:30pm) $5 (Free With Book Purchase)

EVENT ITINERARY

Silent Auction Viewing Begins 4pm, Gladstone Hotel Ballroom,
Wall Walking Tour 6pm, Main Entrance, CAMH, 1001 Queen St West
Interview / Auction 8 pm (Doors 7:30pm), Gladstone Ballroom, Gladston Hotel, 1214 Queen St. West

REMEMBRANCE OF PATIENTS PAST

Historian Geoffrey Reaume remembers previously forgotten psychiatric patients in his groundbreaking study, Remembrance Of Patients Past, by examining in rich detail their daily life at the Toronto Hospital for the Insane (now called the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health - CAMH) from 1870-1940. Psychiatric patients endured abuse and could lead monotonous lives inside the asylum's walls, yet these same women and men worked hard at unpaid institutional jobs for years and decades on end, created their own entertainment, even in some cases made their own clothes, while forming meaningful relationships with other patients and some staff.

Using first person accounts by and about patients - including letters written by inmates which were confiscated by hospital staff - Reaume weaves together a tapestry of stories about the daily lives of people confined behind brick walls that patients themselves built.

GEOFFREY REAUME is an associate professor in the Critical Disability Studies Graduate Program at York University.

RUTH RUTH STACKHOUSE is a proud member of the psychiatric survivor community. She studied theater in New York City and is currently Theatre Director of the Friendly Spike Theatre Band. A long-standing activist, she has protested against institutional confinement and the exploitation of patient labour. www.friendlyspike.ca

THE PSYCHIATRIC SURVIVOR ARCHIVES OF TORONTO (PSAT) is dedicated to ensuring that the rich history of people who have experienced the psychiatric system is preserved for our community and the wider community as a resource from which everyone can share and learn. PSAT is a grass roots organization that is run for and by psychiatric survivors and seeks to reflect the broad diversity of views that are expressed by all people with a psychiatric history however they choose to self-identify. www.psychiatricsurvivorarchives.com

THE STORY BEHIND THE WALL is a mixed-media and cross-disciplinary project created by artists of the Workman Arts Project for Scotiabank Nuitblanche 2009. Six artists chose six former patients from the Toronto Hospital for the Insane as depicted in Geoffrey Reaume’s book Remembrance of Patients Past – Patient life at the Toronto Hospital for the Insane, 1870-1940. Their goal was to create figurative sculptures to creatively and expressively tell the stories of these individual patients from the past who have mostly been confined to a history of silence.

WORKMAN ARTS (WA) facilitates aspiring, emerging and established artists with mental illness and addiction issues to develop and refine their art form through its arts training programs, public performance/exhibit opportunities and partnering with other art organizations. As well, WA promotes a greater public understanding of mental illness and addiction through the creation, presentation and discussion of the artistic media.
www.workmanarts.com

For Media / Info

Geoffrey Reaume: Andrea Wilson, awilson@utpress.utoronto.ca
PSAT Silent Auction: Andrea White, psychsurvivorarchives@gmail.com
TINARS: Chris Reed, coordinator@tinars.ca

The Bobbi Nahwegahbow Memorial Award

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Bobbi Nahwegahbow was an active member of Psychiatric Survivor, Mad Pride, Women’s and Native rights communities in the city of Toronto. Psychiatric Survivor Archives Toronto, The Lakeshore Asylum Cemetery Project, Parkdale Activity Recreation Centre, The Native Centre, The Friendly Spike Theatre Band, St. Francis Table, Toronto Rape Crisis Center, are but a few of the organizations which benefited from this energetic, passionate and righteous human being who was dedicated to equality rights for everyone.

Although Bobbi Nahwegahbow passed on November 4th, 2007 her tenacious example will always be remembered by the people she worked with.

In memory of Bobbi Nahwegahbow, The Mad Pride Organizing Committee has established a $250.00 award in her name, to be presented during Mad Pride Toronto celebrations in July 2010.

The committee requests suggestions from the community in the spirit of who best exemplifies the work which Bobbi so actively nourished. These nominations should be made in the form of a simple statement not more than one page in length, which highlights the person or group’s contributions to our community. Please send to either friendlyspike@primus.ca or Friendly Spike Theatre Band, #210, 2466 Dundas Street West, Toronto M6P 1W9

Suggestions will be reviewed and decided on by the Mad Pride Organizing Committee.

Deadline April 30th 2010

Mad Pride 2010 is coming!

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Mad Pride 2010 is coming!

This year The City of Toronto will proclaim
Mad Pride Week from July 12th to July 18th
Celebrations will include:

*The Historic Patient Built Wall Tour on July 14th

*Theatre and Variety presentations on July 16th

*The fourth annual Mad Pride Bed Push Parade and award ceremony on July 17th

If you would like to join in the celebration please let us know by contacting Ruth Ruth at friendlyspike@primus.ca

Mad Thanks!

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The Mad Pride Organizing Committee 2009 would like to extend its warm gratitude to everyone who played a role in making this year’s MAD Pride Week such a resounding success. We thank all the guest speakers, volunteers, community agencies, artists, students, and donors for their unique and generous contributions.

Mad Thanks!

We hope to see you next year!

Sincerely,

Mad Pride Organizing Committee

Know Your Rights Day

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Come out to May Robinson Auditorium today for "Know your rights day"!

11:00 am—12:00 pm
“Dream Team” housing activists discuss their experiences with discrimination

12:00 pm—12:15 pm
PARC Ambassadors Program Presentation

12:15 pm—1:00 pm
LUNCH

1:00 pm—2:00 pm
“Legal Jeopardy Game” with Parkdale Community Legal Services

2:00 pm—3:00 pm
“Questions, Questions, Questions” with David Carmichael; a personal account of the issues surrounding scientific drug research, taking responsibility for your recovery, and asking the right questions

3:00 pm—4:00 pm
“Street Nursing” with Beth Pelton, Street Health Community Nursing

Patient Built Wall Tour Tonight @ CAMH

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The Patient Built Wall Tour tonight at 6pm is guided by Geoffrey Reaume and will kick off Mad Pride Week 2009.

The purpose of this tour is to remember the contributions of the men and women who lived, worked, and died in the Toronto Hospital for the Insane. This is represented by the nineteenth century patient build boundary walls, which stand as an enduring testament to their abilities and a monument to their memory. We hold up this past symbol of exclusion to challenge the discrimination that is experienced today by people who have a psychiaatric history.

Following the Tour will be a Memorial to pay tribute to those who went before us. Organizers ask guests to bring words that lend meaning to the moment. Candles will be lit.

Please join us for this fascinating tour.
WHERE: CAMH, 1001 Queen St. W. (Queen & Ossington)
WHEN: 6 pm - 8pm

Click here for more info on the Patient Built Wall.

Extra! Extra! Mad Pride is a comin'!

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Get your Mad Pride on!
We're featured today in blogTO. Click here to read.

Attention! Change in venue!

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Due to the City Worker strike, all events that were scheduled to occur at Metro Hall will now take place at May Robinson Auditorium, which is located at 20 West Lodge Avenue--one block north of Queen, one block east of Lansdowne.

We hope to see you there!

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Peggy-Gail or Soojin at 416-531-2411 ext. 269 or Ruth Ruth at 416-516-4740 or friendlyspike@primus.ca.

MAD PRIDE WEEK --- July 13 to July 19 2009

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In a culture of hardening isolation, status materialism and environmental degradation: Mad Pride can be a broad embrace (2002, Adbusters), so come one, come all to:

M A D P R I D E W E E K

When: July 13 to July 19 2009

Where: City of Toronto

A week long festival of arts, education and heritage activities which recognize psychiatric survivors, consumers, mad folks and others for the purpose of community development, rights awareness and celebration. All events are free.

Mad Pride Week community partners are; Accent on Ability through A-Way Couriers, CS/Info, The Gerstein Centre, Houselink Community Homes, PARC, Parkdale Activity Recreation Centre, PCIC, Parkdale Community Information Centre, PCLS, Parkdale Community Legal Services, Soundtimes Support Services, The Raging Spoon, Out Of This World Café, and The Friendly Spike Theatre Band

With support from The Toronto Arts Council Community Arts Program and Ministry of Heritage through BCAH Building Culture through Arts and Heritage

A backgrounder of this great event is attached.

Monday July 13th 2009

CAMH

(Centre for Addiction and Mental Heath)

1001 Queen Street West (meet on front patio, Ossington entrance)

6PM – 8:30PM: The Patient Built Wall Tour,

guided by Geoffrey Reaume.

The purpose of this tour is to remember the contributions of the men and women who lived, worked, and died in the Toronto Hospital for the Insane. This is represented by the nineteenth century patient built boundary walls, which stand as enduring testament to their abilities and a monument to their memory. We hold up this past symbol of exclusion to challenge discrimination that is experienced today by people who have a psychiatric history

Geoffrey Reaume, Psychiatric Survivor Archives Toronto.

8:30PM-9PM: Memorial

Attendees are invited to a post wall tour memorial which will pay tribute to those who went before us. Organizers ask guests to bring words that lend meaning to the moment. Candles will be lit.

Tuesday July 14th – Friday July 17th

METRO HALL, ROTUNDA

55 John Street (King and John Streets)

But, if the city workers strike continues throughout this week our venue will be changed to May Robinson Auditorium, 20 Westlodge, one block east of Lansdowne, one block north of Queen)

A gallery of original art, crafts, displays and information and much more, from 11am to 5pm each day.

Demonstrators include artists from Houselink Community Homes, Soundtimes Support Services, and the PARC Art Group

and others, along with the postings of individual artists Naomi Laufer, Sarah Griffin. Paul Draper and others and information from A-Way Couriers, IDPWD, Metro Tenants Association, Simply People, Social Phobias Support Group of Toronto, Street Health, Street to Trail and more!.

Tuesday July 14th

World Mad Pride Day

11AM – 12NOON: Opening Ceremony

Join the Mad Pride organizers for:

*The Reading of the Mad Pride Week Proclamation

*With MC Peggy Gail Dehal Ramson PCLS and special guests;

The Honourable David C. Onley, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario Ontario Human Rights Chief Commission Barbara Hall

MPP, Cheri Di Novo

Presentations from:

Voices from the Street, featuring Mike Creek, Theresa Schrader and Meghan Currie. VFTS is comprised of individuals who have had direct experience with homelessness, poverty, and/or mental health issues. The organization works to put a human face to homelessness and involves people with direct experience as leaders in a public education process.

Caroline Kwok, reading from her book Free to Fly; A Story of Manic Depression (inclusion Press, 2006) is a moving, hopeful story that works on two distinct levels.

First, it is the story of the author’s experience as a Chinese-born Canadian, dealing with multiple issues faced by new immagrants. More ripping though, is her harrowing account of her life with bipolar-despairing, coping and finally providing inspiration to others” BP Canada

Naomi Laufer, a published poet, artist and teacher who will read two of her poems

A song lead by Frank Hall. Heinz Klein and The Friendly Spike Theatre Band

12NOON – 1PM - LUNCH – light refreshments generously provided by Out Of This World Cafe

*RSVP

Special lunch time presentations which include Laughter Yoga with Salimah Kassim-Lakha, and more!

1PM – 2PM – Presentation; Hugging Our History: Why Psychiatric Survivors need to ‘own’ our Mad past.

By Geoffrey Reaume

2PM – 2PM – Presentation: Living Archive Project

By PARC Living Archive Collective

Presentation includes a documentary film and live presentation

Time spent on Q. and A.

Wednesday July 15th

Know Your Rights Day

11AM – 12 NOON Presentation: Dream Team –

The Dream Team is a group of consumer survivors who advocate for more safe, secure and affordable supportive housing for people living with mental health and addiction issues. They do this by telling their personal stories about the life-altering benefits of supportive housing, by tackling discrimination and stigma, and by working to eliminate barriers to the creation of more supportive housing through public education, research and advocacy.

Over the last year the Dream Team has worked with various groups and communities across Ontario to explore the issue of discriminatory zoning. In this presentation members of the Dream Team will illustrate the concept of discriminatory zoning and the impact on people with mental health and addiction issues.

12NOON – 12:15: Presentation: PARC Ambassadors Program

PARC Ambassadors program is a community consultation by the Parkdale Activity Recreation Centre with the Parkdale Community. The purpose and the goal of the program is to engage, inform and consult with residents and stakeholders in the community in relation to our building development Edmond Place. The program consists of 9 Ambassadors whom are PARC Members receiving remuneration for the work they do. It is peer and member driven, incorporating and building on the principles and values of the recovery model and PARC’s Mission –PARC – A Place Where People Rebuild Their Lives. When the Parkdale Activity Recreation Centre acquired the building from the City of Toronto to develop affordable, social housing for marginalized persons in our community there was extreme opposition to PARC by residents and stakeholders in Parkdale. Since the PARC Ambassadors Program inception in September 2007 we have progressed from a state of NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) to one of YIMBY (Yes In My Back Yard). The PARC Ambassadors Program has been successful with their community consultation and public relations in Parkdale. It has proven that marginalized people do have a commitment to their community, have all the necessary attributes and capabilities to be productive, contribute to their neighbourhood and society, and live a healthy, meaningful and fulfilling life.

PARC Ambassadors will discuss their work at this presentation

12:15 NOON – 1PM – Lunch –light refreshments generously provided by Raging Spoon

*RSVP: madpridetoronto@yahoo.ca

Special lunch time presentations featuring Laughter Yoga with Salimah Kassim-Lakha, and more!

1PM – 2PM – Presentation – Legal Jeopardy by Parkdale Community Legal Services (PCLS)

2PM -3 PM- – David Carmichael

QUESTIONS, QUESTIONS, QUESTIONS

When it comes to treating your own mental illnesses, we often assume that doctors and other mental heal professionals always know what’s

best. During this presentation, David will raise a few issues about scientific drug research and help you understand, based on his own experience recovering from major depression, how important it is for people suffering from mental illnesses to take responsibility for their own recovery and rehabilitation by asking their doctors and mental health workers questions, questions and more questions, and by becoming regularly physically active.

David holds a masters degree in physical education and is the former director of national projects at ParticipACTION. After experiencing his first major depression in 2003 at the age of 45 and a relapse in 2004, he tragically learned the importance of good mental health and does not assume that doctors always know what’s best.

(opportunity will be given for the audience to ask questions)

3PM – 4PM Street Nurse Beth Pelton

Beth Pelton is a registered nurse currently working with Street Health Community Nursing. Most of her nursing work has been in the community, and with people living with cancer. Her experiences have included working in medical and geriatric and psychiatric nursing. In practicing from a Harm Reduction philosophy she is learning deeper meanings about Client-Directed Care and Client-Centered Care.

Thursday July 16th

Madly Theatrical

11AM -12 NOON Presentation; Mind Storm, by Mortimer Christie

Mind Storm is a play about Michael, a person with mental health issues around schizophrenia. Michael spends a 24-hour period of time, each month, in a local park experiencing audio and visual hallucinations.

Featuring Henrik Kartna

12 NOON – 12:45 NOON – Presentation; films by Helen Posno

IMPEDIMENTA – which deals with the homelessness of mankind in the universe

MY SILENT LIVES – which deals with both the lightness and the darkness of the human spirit.

12:45 NOON – 1:30PM Lunch – Brown bag lunches generously provided by Houselink Community Kitchen

RSVP; madpridetoronto@yahoo.ca

Special lunch time presentations and workshops, featuring Laughter Yoga with Salimah Kassim-Lakha, and more!

1:30PM – 2:30PM – Play by The Friendly Spike Theatre Band

Moving To My Own Beat

A diverse group of students attend a lecture they won’t ever forget.

2:30PM – 2:45PM Presentation: Clay and Paper Theatre

2:45PM – 4PM: Open Stage

Friday July 17th

12Noon to 12:30 - Brown bag lunches generously provided by Honselink Community Kitchen

Special lunch time presentations featuring Laughter Yoga, with Salimah Kassim-Lakha, and more!

12:30 – 1PM A film: Art X-Press

Art Express is a community arts mural project that involved four Redirection Through Education students from George Brown College, in the design and painting of murals for TTC bus sides. Two murals were created in five hands-on workshops that were held at George Brown. The murals have since been mounted as original artworks on the exterior of two busses and as well, digitalized images of the murals are being featured on Toronto’s subway video monitors. Using the busses as “mobile billboards”, the artists as activists generated mural imagery as a means to challenge public assumptions and inform urban audiences of issues around their identities as psychiatric survivors. The film traces the arts’ creative processes.

1PM -2PM: Panel discussion, topic tba; with Erick Fabris, Onar Usar, Joel Zablosky and others.

2PM – 2:45PM: Essya Nabbali

“Mad Pride toward a democratic utopia”

Saturday July 18th

CAMH

(centre for addiction and mental health)

1001 Queen Street West, Toronto

The Third Annual Bed Push Parade Day

12NOON to 1PM - Mad Tea Party

Presented by the Empowerment Council and CAMH Peer Staff

1PM – 2:30PM Bed Push Pride Parade, Led by PARC Drummers

And featuring Crazy Talk: Share your rant, dance, emotion, expression, comment, in support of Mad Pride. This “speakers corner” style video will be shared on Youtube.com. Enacted by the Mad People’s Video Project

This unique pride procession of individuals, agencies and organizations. pushes a gurney dressed like a bed with sheets that shout words that reclaim what was once lost; ‘Hope’, ‘Education’, ‘Friends’ , and

more. The event is in celebration of ourselves and serves to strengthen our community.

*1PM – Gather at CAMH front Patio for Special guests, Mad Pride Honours, and Bobbi Nahwegahbow Memorial Awards will be presented to outstanding Artist/Activists DD Spideria and Heinz Klein

*1:30PM – Push off

*2:00PM – Rest station

*2:30PM – arrive at PARC

2:30PM -5:00PM– Party!, Hosted by PARC

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Mad Pride Toronto 2009 Is Gearing Up!

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Come and celebrate your Mad Pride!

The City of Toronto has proclaimed July 13 - 19th
MAD PRIDE WEEK.

Organizers are planning and arts and educational festival from July 14th to 17th at METRO HALL ROTUNDA

and

on July 18th, THE THIRD ANNUAL BED PUSH PARADE

See our attached flyer for details on how to get involved.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Please forward this information to anyone you think may be interested..

RuthRuth, on behalf of Mad Pride Organizing Committee.

Mad Pride Week - Toronto 2008 - Call for Submissions!

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Mad Pride Week - Toronto 2008

Monday July 14th to Sunday July 20th.

Each day there will be great Mad Pride programming somewhere in the City.

Mad Pride Arts and Education
is from Tuesday July 15th to Thursday July 17th

out of May Robinson Auditorium at 20 Westlodge.

If you you or your group wishes to share at this event
please send in your submission.

We are looking for;
*films, *theatre, *performance art, *research presentations *panel discussions *and more!.

Vendors and demonstrators are welcome, but please register with us.
..
Mad Pride!

Ruth Ruth Stackhouse
friendlyspike@primus.ca
416 516 4740

July 14th - 20th, 2008 is Mad Pride Week in the City of Toronto!

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The Mad Pride Organizing Committee is a group of psychiatric survivors/consumers and friends within the City of Toronto. We have gathered yearly over the past 15 years to organize and host pride and recognition activity for a diverse community of psychiatric and consumer survivors. Administration for this activity is managed by The Friendly Spike Theatre Band, with assistance from Parkdale Community Legal Services, Parkdale Activity Recreation Centre, and Soundtimes Support Services. This year, July 14th - 20th 2008 has been officially proclaimed Mad Pride Week in the City of Toronto. Mad Pride is also celebrating across the world in North America, Europe, and Africa on the same day linking mental health system users around the globe.

JULY 14th: PATIENT BUILT WALL TOUR AND MEMORIAL - 6PM - 8PM

On the grounds of CAMH - Center for Addiction and Mental Health, 1001 Queen Street West

JULY 15th - 17th: MAD PRIDE ARTS FESTIVAL (literature, theatre, film, arts, crafts, vending) - daily from 3PM - 9:30PM

At May Robinson Auditorium, 20 Westlodge (Lansdown/QueenW)

JULY 18th: MAD PRIDE POETRY JAM - 7PM - 9PM

At Parkdale Activity Recreation Centre, 1499 Queen Street West

JULY 19th: SECOND ANNUAL TORONTO MAD PRIDE BED PUSH PARADE - 1PM - 3PM

Gather at front patio of CAMH - Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 1001 Queen Street West, Parade to PARC at 1499 Queen Street West

JULY 19th: BED PUSH PARTY - 3PM - 8PM

At Parkdale Activity Recreation Centre, 1499 Queen Street West

JULY 20th: MAD PRIDE BRUNCH, SOUNDTIMES - 10AM -1PM

At Sound Times, 280 Parliament Street

For more information, please contact:

Ruth Ruth Stackhouse
friendlyspike@primus.ca
416-516-4740

Mad Pride rises locally, soars globally

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As Toronto Mad Pride organizers close the Mad Pride 2007 season with finale event Psychiatric Survivor Pride Weekend, Mad Pride Organizers in Belgium accelerate their efforts for a scheduled Mad Pride Parade to march the streets of Brussels on Saturday October 6th 2007.

Learn about Brussels Mad Pride @:
www.uilenspiegel.net
Learn about Toronto Mad Pride @:
www.madpridetoronto.blogspot.com

Toronto - Psychiatric Survivor Pride Weekend In Review

* On Friday September 28th 2007 at 5:30pm, Toronto Mad Pride Organizers opened the doors of Parkdale Library Auditorium, at 1303 Queen Street West, to welcome and educate the community within and throughout Psychiatric Survivor Pride Weekend.

* It is fitting Now, Who’s Crazy Now?, a one woman play, (on tour from Vancouver), by Elly Litvak which chronicles the author’s journey from mental illness to wellness and recovery, was the weekend’s first presentation because in 1985, Elly Litvak founded Puzzle Factory Theatre, Toronto’s first Psychiatric Survivor acting troupe. Puzzle Factory was a theatre, which recognized and nurtured the bud of creativity in survivors, many of whom were in the audience of this presentation! The play, Now, Who’s Crazy Now? is structured in the form of a lively monologue. Litvak’s performance skills, combined with personal experience, provide the right mix for this testimonial theatre piece.

* It is easy to understand why Elly Litvak insists that performances of Now, Who’s Crazy Now?, be followed by audience-performer discussion, as through out the presentation her work encourages people to talk, specifically to talk about the journey from illness to recovery and what that means to them.

* Now, Who’s Crazy Now? audience members, approximately 75 in attendance, left the auditorium, enriched and motivated by Elly Litvak’s creative example.

* On Saturday September 29th 2007 Mad Pride Organizers worked with individuals and groups transforming Parkdale Library Auditorium, into a ‘Mad Market’ of activity. Three of the auditorium’s walls boasted information, arts and crafts from PSAT (Psychiatric Survivor Archives Toronto), Greenspiration, Artist and Poet Helen Posno, A-Way Express, PAVE (Park dale Anti Violence Education), Edite Pine’s Evolving Stories Project, Soundtimes Art Group, T-Shirt Artist James Smith, Arts and Crafts by TK Workman. The fourth wall of the auditorium was dedicated to presentation. Audience chairs sat in the centre, creating a space where community was literally surrounded by the fabulous and strong grass roots of arts and activism, so - indeed, many thanks to the artists and educators who supported the event in this way.

* Talented singer-songwriter Tim Maxwell, topped the morning with a prelude of songs which included a lovely and moving rendition of Leonard Cohen’s Halleluiah.

* At 11am, Mad Pride Organizers opened the programming day with a cheer introducing internationally renowned folk singer Honey Novick, who graced the ceremony with her heavenly voice by sharing a prayer of peace and unity, Gord Perks, City Councillor for Parkdale High Park, energized us with his words which complimented our community building work and boosted our confidence by recognizing our achievements. The Friendly Spike of Activism, the annual award, which is actually a hand carved and engraved wooden railway spike which works a pen, created by Toronto artisan Ruth Arnold, and presented to someone who uses words to make a positive difference in the lives of Psychiatric Survivors, was presented by Archivist, Activist and Artist Mel Starkman to Carla McKague, Ontario’s first mental health lawyer, and founder of the contentious anti psychiatry magazine Phoenix Rising. Don Weitz, whom some refer to as the father of Canada’s anti psychiatry movement accepted the award, by reading an eloquent speech prepared by Carla McKague especially for this occasion. Indeed, we were as honoured by Carla McKague’s recognition as she was by ours. The awards ceremony was completed by a bit of self recognition as each Mad Pride organizer was presented with a framed certificate of appreciation for a job well done!.

* Next, Erick Fabris’ delivered an important lecture based on his research of CTO’s (Community Treatment Orders). Many individuals within the audience are at high risk of having CTO’s issued against them. Erick’s presentation provided vital education, in a down to earth and friendly fashion. By the end of his ‘talk’ about ‘CTO’S’ everyone was 'talking' about ‘CTO’s’, and continued the jag well into lunch.

* And what a lunch it was! -a delicious assortment of sandwiches, subs and wraps, cold vegetables w.dip, lots of fresh fruit and goodies galore all generously provided by The Raging Spoon, Voices from the Street and Houselink Community Kitchen.

* Mad Pride Organizers resumed their cheer at 1 o’clock by introducing Lulu Presents an original clown work created by Linda Carter and directed by well known theatre artist Mark Christmann. Definitely, the audience will treasure the memory of Linda Carter’s huge and generous talent demonstrated within her sure-to-be- a- hit play.

* Next was Ninety Minutes, an arts and education cabaret hosted by artists Naomi Laufer and Paul Cote who warmly welcomed presenters; Susanne, Christine, and Miriam from Soundtimes, Carol Allain from PAVE (Parkdale Anti Violence Education), Poet Helen Posno, Activist and Writer Angela Biscoff, Singer-Songwriter Tim Maxwell, and others!.

* Although, we were truly excited about presenting Crazy Diamond a short film by Lavarius, at 3pm, our anticipation was quelled by a technical glitch, which made it impossible to show the work. Fortunately, film maker Lavarius was in the audience and was able to invite everyone to a screening of his new work (one of which is of mutual interest), The Toronto Mad Pride Bed Push, debuting at the Gladstone Hotel, that evening as part of Nuit Blanche.

* Closing the Parkdale Library Auditorium presentation on this Psychiatric Survivor Pride Day of Days was a scene from The Edmond Yu Project. Briefly, The Edmond Yu Project is a tribute to the memory of Edmond Yu, a psychiatric survivor ruthlessly killed by Toronto police in 1997. The multi media play, written by some of Toronto’s leading human rights activists (Mel Starkman, Don Weitz and Ken Innes to name a few), is a sweeping condemnation of how society views and treats psychiatric survivors, the homeless and the impoverished. It also sheds light on another terrifying and escalating problem – that of police brutality directed at this vulnerable sector of society. In the case of Edmond Yu, the behavior of the police was abominable and inexcusable yet they were exonerated.

Within the text of The Edmond Yu Project the play achieves, at least some, justice, albeit poetic justice, as a theatre troupe of psychiatric survivors (inspired by Puzzle Factory Theatre!), liberates itself from the clutches of an oppressor, and pledges itself to give voice to their community and their cause. Indeed, The Edmond Yu Project served its true calling, a catalyst for justice, during this presentation.

* The day at Parkdale Library Auditorium was now over, however the event, most certainly was not.

* At 6pm we gathered on the front patio of CAMH (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health) 1001 Queen Street West for the Patient Built Wall Tour, guided by Historian Geoffrey Reaume. The purpose of this tour is to remember the contributions of the men and women who lived, worked, and died in the Toronto Hospital for the Insane. This is represented by the boundary walls they built which stand as enduring testament to their abilities and a monument to their endurance. We hold up this past symbol to challenge discrimination that is experienced today by people who have a psychiatric history.

Geoffrey Reaume is a caring, eloquent, kind and respectful guide and guardian of this symbol of our collective past. It is here, at the wall, where we are reminded of our strength and our dignity, reminded of why we celebrate our individual and our collective pride, that our day’s journey is done.

Epilogue

On Sunday September 30th, people paid their respects at the burial grounds of 1151 former patients of Lakeshore Psychiatric Hosptiatl during the LACP (Lakeshore Asylum Cemetery Project) Fall Commemoration event at the cemetery at Evans and Horner Avenue in South Etobicoke.

MAD PRIDE!

Bipolar diagnoses in U.S. children queried

2007-09-05T17:19:00.000-07:00

A new analysis suggests there's been a huge increase in the number of U.S. children diagnosed with bipolar disorder, but experts question whether the surge is real and say some kids have been mislabelled.

Mental illness focus of new strategy

2007-09-03T12:30:00.000-07:00

Canada needs a new approach to diagnosing and treating mental disorders and illness, says one of the people who will bring his ideas to the newly formed Mental Health Commission of Canada.

Mental health panel aims to stamp out discrimination

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Headed by former senator Michael Kirby, commission will craft strategy to fight stigma.

Mad Pride Toronto season finale weekend listings

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Detailed Activities Release; August 2007

MAD Pride Toronto Organizing Committee
Invites YOU to partake in a season finale weekend of free and accessible activity;

SEPTEMBER 28th, 29th , 30th, 2007

Contact: friendlyspike@primus.ca or 416 516 4740 for additional detail.

NOW, WHO’S CRAZY NOW?,
A one woman show written and performed by Elly Litvak
Friday September 28th
6pm -8pm
Parkdale Library Auditorium
1303 Queen Street West

Elly Litvak, founder of Toronto’s beloved Puzzle Factory Theatre, Toronto’s first Psychiatric Survivor acting troupe, makes a triumphant return home with a play that documents her journey from mental illness to recovery.

Seating is first come first serve.
Reservation accepted

PSYCHIATRIC SURVIVOR DAY
An arts and education festival
Saturday September 29th
11am – 4pm
Parkdale Library Auditorium
1303-Queen Street West

You won’t want to miss this, lots to do and see, vendors include artists and crafts people as well as groups and information displays.

11am Opening and Awards Ceremony
Features internationally acclaimed folk singer Honey Novick
Special guest Toronto City Councilor Gord Perks.
Award Ceremony honors critical legal scholar and Toronto’s first mental health lawyer Carla McKague, also to be recognized are the achievements of the MAD Pride Organizing Committee

11:30am PRESENTATION by Erick Fabris–
Community Treatment Orders: Imprisoning With Drugs in the 21st Century.
Psychiatry has brought its commitment powers out of the hospital and into the community with “Community Treatment Orders” OR “CTOS”. New psychiatric laws across the US and 3 Canadian provinces have introduced CTO measures. Ontario adopted CTOS in 2000 to enforce psychiatric treatments, monitoring and appointments, supposedly with the consent of patients. Erick Fabris presents academic research on how psychiatric inmates have experienced forced treatment outside of psychiatric facilities. He argues that CTOS are a new form of chemical incarceration rather than treatment.

12noon - FREE LUNCH, catered by The Raging Spoon, Voices from the Street, and Houselink Community Kitchen!

1pm –PRESENTATION by Performance artist and clown extrodinaire Linda Carter

Wonder Woman, Linda Carter has done a fair bit of clowning around across Canada, and in St. Petersburg, Russia. She is very thankful to have worked with the Puzzle Fctory Theatre Company and proud of the original material the group created to increase awareness around mental health issues. Her new work was created specifically for Mad Pride and is a series of vignettes including clown and character work directed by the incredibly awesome Mark Christmann.

1:30pm NINETY MINUTES a speak and sing out

3pm – THE EDMOND YU PROJECT, a special workshop presentation from the play features Don Weitz, and The Friendly Spike Theatre Band

THE PATIENT BUILT WALL TOUR
Front patio of CAMH,
1001 Queen Street W. (Ossington entrance)
Saturday September 29th
6pm-8pm

The purpose of this tour is to remember the contributions of the men and women who lived, worked, and died in the Toronto Hospital of the Insane. This is represented by the boundary walls they build which stand as enduring testament to their abilities and a monument to their endurance. We hold up this past symbol to challenge discrimination that is experienced today by people who have a psychiatric history.
Tour guide; Geoffrey Reaume

THE LAKESHORE ASYLUM CEMETERY PROJECT (LACP)
At the Cemetery at Evans and Horner Aves, South Etobicoke
1pm - 3pm (rain or shine)
Sunday September 30th

You are invited to pay your respects at the burial grounds of 1511 former patients of Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital during our Fall visitation. The cemetery is located at the corners of Horner and Evans Avenues in south Etobicoke. Members of LACP will be attending as part of their ongoing goals to remember those who have died and efforts to retore this historic cemetery. Information will be hared by Ed Janiszewski about the history of the burial grounds, those buried there, future plans and a vigil held

On and Up!

Sound Times 'Zine

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Sound Times is one of our many valued supporters! Check out their 'Zine for the month of August '07.

Mad Pride Day Toronto - July 14/07 - Videos!

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Mad Pride Toronto lives!

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The Mad Pride Toronto blog was created on Wednesday, July 18, 2007 @ 7:41 p.m.!