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Mad Hatter Competition

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

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When Jun 14, 2009
from 08:00 PM to 08:00 PM
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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

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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."