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Mad Pride Asheville 2008
Announcement for an upcoming festival in Asheville, North Carolina, USA.
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Jul 19, 2008 from 02:00 PM to 06:00 PM |
| Where | City-County Park, Asheville, NC, USA |
| Contact Name | Moss Bliss |
| Contact Phone | (828) 299-4434 |
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Saturday, July 19, 1-5 pm
City-County Park 
What is Mad Pride?
Mad Pride counteracts some of the discrimination and prejudice often shown towards people who have experienced mental distress and difference by promoting the economic, political, social, and cultural integration of users/survivors of psychiatry into the larger society. Mad Pride celebrates the creativity, strength and resilience of the human spirit. Mad Pride empowers psychiatric survivors and raises public consciousness through various activities such as art, theatre, music, poetry, protests, vigils and more.
MadPride Asheville is part of a 9-nation disorganization of similar festivals, featuring week-long festivals in London and Toronto and others in Portland OR, Montreal, and various other cities in the US, Canada, Belgium, England, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Ghana.
MadPride Asheville is an individually-organized event. It is nominally co-sponsored by MindFreedom International, Asheville Homeless Network, Asheville Radical Mental Health Collective, and the International Association for the Advancement of Creative Maladjustment. Membership in any of these organizations is not required – membership in the human race is, and all diagnosis-labelled individuals as well as their friends, families and supporters are invited.
We would like to build this into a larger festival in subsequent years. If you can't be weird in Asheville, then where? Contact Moss Bliss and his incredible answering machine at (828) 299-4434 if you'd like to be involved in planning future events. This year, all you need to do is ATTEND!
