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Mad Hatter Competition

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When 2009-06-14
from 00:00 to 00:00
Where Everywhere
Contact Email madpridesf@gmail.com
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by Jeremy Bensman — last modified 2009-06-03 21:11

Independent Living Resource Center San Francisco is holding a creative competition celebrating Mad Pride.

Independent Living Resource Center San Francisco's Mad Pride Mad Hatter Competition


What is Mad Pride?????
Mad Pride is a movement that celebrates the human rights and spectacular culture of people considered very different by our society. - Mind Freedom

What is a Mad Pride Event?
A party, a parade, a celebration, a picnic, a concert....it's anything a group of people who want to mark the occasion, and work towards de-stigmatizing psychiatric disabilities, want it to be.

What is ILRCSF's Mad Hatter competition all about?

The challenge:

1)    Make a hat - the "madder", the better. Use whatever you have at your disposal: found objects, recycled objects, buttons, cloth, paper...the limits only exist in your imagination. The only rule is: HAVE FUN.

2)    Photograph your Mad Hat and, no later than June 15,  send the photo, electronically, to: 

                madpridesf@gmail.com

3)    Join ILRCSF's Facebook group: Mad Pride - San Francisco, for updates on semi-final and final judging, prizes, and other Mad Pride events around the Bay Area.

4)    Trade and collect Mad Hats, using ILRCSF's upcoming Facebook Mad Pride Hat Application.

Mad Pride Info and Links:

Mind Freedom: What is Mad Pride?
http://www.mindfreedom.org/campaign/madpride

Newsweek: A Growing Push for Mad Pride
http://www.newsweek.com/id/195694

NY Times: Mad Pride Fights Stigma http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/fashion/11madpride.html?_r=2&ref=fashion&oref=slogin

We are MFI



Lauren Tenney, psychiatric survivor activist from New York State

First involuntarily institutionalized, at 15, Lauren Tenney is a survivor of psychiatry. She has been involved with the user and survivor movement since 1992. Her goal is to help stop forced psychiatric procedures, detainment, and confinement, human rights violations, psychiatric abuse and torture. Of particular concern are the elimination of forced electroconvulsive treatment (ECT) on people of all ages, but particularly children and senior citizens, forced drugging, restraints, seclusion, behavioral interventions, and coercion of any kind. Lauren, a Mad-Activist/ Artist/ Author/ Academic/ Adjunct Professor is coordinating The Opal Project, an outcome of participatory action research she coordinated for field research in the PhD program in Environmental Psychology at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her dissertation topic is: "The Institutionalized "Community." She became involved with WE THE PEOPLE when the Law Project for Psychiatric Rights and MindFreedom International needed someone on the ground in Brooklyn, New York to coordinate a response where Esmin Green was murdered-by-neglect. She now lives in Albany, NY with her service dog-in-training and cat. For more info: www.TheOpalProject.org and www.etrash.tv
 
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