Mad Dance: A Mental Health Film Trilogy

Submitted by filmboy on Wed, 06/13/2012 - 5:34pm

Greetings, Icaristas. I'm thrilled to share my beautiful and provocative project with you, Mad Dance: A Mental Health Film Trilogy. These films re-envision the way we think and speak about our individual and collective mental health in today's chaotic world. Check out the 5-minute video (best viewed smaller) on Kickstarter, and if you find the project unique, transformative, and enlightening, please contribute to its success today. The donor gifts are phenomenal!

A Gathering of Wings and Stories in the Darkness: The Icarus Project Reaches a Decade

Submitted by Icarus Project on Wed, 05/30/2012 - 12:07am

This coming September will be the 10th anniversary of our Icarus Project journey. With your participation, we will be celebrating this milestone anniversary. We are asking each of you to reflect back on your own personal journey with The Icarus Project.  We want to celebrate our victories and learn from our mistakes, as well as look forward to what we envision The Icarus Project to be over the next 10 years. Currently on the agenda: re-designing the website; revising and updating all of our publications; creating a 10th Anniversary story sharing archive; as well as some organizational restructuring, including getting an advisory board into place.

Letting Insanity Speak - By Alix LeClair - The Rebirth of Campus Icarus at NYU

Submitted by Icarus Project on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 11:33pm
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Alix LeClair wrote this beautiful paper for Brad Lewis' Mad Science/Mad Pride class at Gallatin last semester. She's interested in starting up a Campus Icarus group, in her words:

"I really want to take the icarus project into reality in new york. I've been asking around at Gallatin and talking to people in my Mad Pride class about it, but you can write something on the website about how myself and some others are trying to get the
campus icarus at NYU started again.They can email me AFL255@nyu.edu I
have a lot of ideas but I can't put it into practice on my own and I'm scared about being a "leader" of anything, and I'm sure others will be interested if they only knew the group was there."

 

 

Icarus Mission Statement Translated Into Hebrew!

Submitted by scatter on Wed, 02/15/2012 - 11:58pm

So last month I traveled to Israel and the West Bank for the first time in my life and met so many inspiring people and got my mind blown and heart broken open. Right before I got on the plane to fly home I facilitated an Icarus Project style radical mental health discussion at the anarchist community center Rogatka in Tel Aviv. There were about 20 people there, with a number of folks from Anarchists Against the Wall, some of whom I'd met at a protest in Nabi Saleh a few days before amidst the tear gas and skunk water canons.(!?!) We talked about madness and language and collective trauma and watched Crooked Beauty and it felt like it could be the beginning of some important new discussions about mental health in the radical activist community in Israel.

Mindful Occupation: Rising Up Without Burning Out

Submitted by Icarus Project on Fri, 02/03/2012 - 8:55pm

 

There is an urgent need to talk publicly about the relationship between social injustice and our mental health. We need to start redefining what it actually means to be mentally healthy, not just on an individual level, but on collective, communal, and global levels.

A group of us who have years of experience practicing peer-based community mental health support, including many Icarus folks, got together to compile a manual for organizers and participants in the #occupy movement. 

International Allies- Report Backs 2011

Submitted by Icarus Project on Tue, 12/20/2011 - 7:02pm
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Sascha went on a whirlwind tour of Europe this summer meeting with other radical mental health activists and talking about what is happening in their countries. Here are some of their reports as well as reports from Icarus allies in other parts of the world.

2011: Icarista Reportbacks From the Front

Submitted by Icarus Project on Mon, 12/19/2011 - 2:31pm
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We sent out a call to longtime Icarus members far and wide to tell us a little bit about what they have been up to in 2011and what Icarus means to them. Here's what we heard back....

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