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25 July 2009: Mad Pride Picnic and Celebration

by Jeremy Bensman — last modified 2009-08-25 14:28

Mad Pride event in Leeds, England

25 July 2009: Mad Pride Picnic and Celebration

WHAT: Mad Pride Picnic and Celebration

WHEN: 25 July 2009, 2:00 P.M. and 7:30 P.M.

WHERE: Woodhouse Moor and Beulah Mount, Leeds, England


From the organizers:

"Mad Pride comes to Leeds in West Yorkshire, England, this weekend. We  will be celebrating the beautiful uniqueness of our minds in the form of a picnic on Woodhouse Moor on the afternoon of Saturday 25th July (starting at 2 p.m. opposite the Hyde Park allotments). There will be poetry, music & majik! Please bring food, drink, musical instruments, good cheer etc.

Then later that same day we'll be convening at Oblong, a social centre which is on Beulah Mount in Woodhouse at around 7.30 p.m. for an evening of celebration. There'll be vegan food and entertainment, (including an open mic, so bring your poems & music), and also possibly a mad dancing competition!"

We are MFI



Adam Voss, psychiatric survivor

After being repeatedly placed in psychiatric institutions, Adam Voss remembered hearing about MindFreedom and decided to hop on a bus to join up. Three and a half days later, traveling the whole length of the USA, Adam arrived in July 2009 at the MindFreedom office in Eugene, where he was warmly welcomed. Adam’s experience with psychiatric coercion began in 2008 when he decided to dance outside the city hall in Lindsay, Ontario, Canada. Forcibly taken by police to a psychiatric ward, Adam endured forced psychiatric drugging with neuroleptic or "antipsychotic" drugs, an experience repeated three more times. Having read about the MFI Shield program Adam said, "I realized that by traveling to MindFreedom headquarters I would find the peer support and protection I couldn’t find in the mental health system or even within my own family."
 
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