Bay Area Icarus is alive and thriving!

We meet for support and discussion every Sunday in San Francisco: 4:30 - 6:30, at CIIS in room 218. (CIIS is at 1453 Mission St. between 10th and 11th in the SOMA district of San Francisco)

We also meet to organize events and activities. This sub-group is called the California Icarus Regional Organizers Collective, and usually meets every other Monday night. Email bayarea@theicarusproject.net for info on the next meeting. 

Last Fall we launched a Speaker's Series with alternative voices in mental health. Our last event was with Staci Haines, founder of Generative Somatics and Generation Five, on January 25th.

Our first speaker was Anatomy of An Epidemic author Robert Whitaker on Oct. 4th. Our second speaker was Crazy Like Us author Ethan Watters on Tuesday, Dec. 7th.  All the events have been packed with people and generated tons of discussion.

Email us for more info at:  bayarea@theicarusproject.net

 

 

CAIROC notes ... March 10

Submitted by featherwig on Wed, 03/23/2011 - 10:34pm

Leah Lakshmi - event planning

Mini retreat plan

Support meeting evolution

Mad Arts Festival - Icarus 10 years 2012

check it out.

CAIROC meeting notes Feb 21

Submitted by featherwig on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 4:59pm

Icarus national update

Anarchist Salon

Anarchist bookfair

CAIROC preramble for sunday meetings

Leah Lakshmi - upcoming speaker

Icarus POC

Other stuff

Nos for CAIROC meeting - Thurs Jan 20

Submitted by featherwig on Sat, 01/22/2011 - 2:40pm

Icaristas,

at the last CAIROC meeting we worked through the details of the Staci Heanes event -- come early to help set up, stay late to help break down! We will be setting up starting at 6 pm, doors open to the public at 6.30, and the event begins at 7. Staci Haines will be presenting at Namaste Hall, CIIS, Mission between 10 and 11 st.

Click the link below for the full notes from the meeting. Highlights are --

Staci Haines event 1/25

CIIS and Student Alliance funding

National Icarus update

Icarus Retreat update

Future related events - Berlin film, Josh Walters

CAIROC notes Jan 3rd

Submitted by featherwig on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 3:30pm

Great meeting last night at la Boheme. We stayed strong and worked
through some intense energy and got through some logistics on upcoming
events.

Notes breakdown -

+ Staci Heanes
= Retreat weekend 1/29
+ Other stuff
= Next meeting

Bay Area Icarus Potluck

Submitted by danni on Fri, 12/17/2010 - 2:17am

Hi y'all,

Sorry this is super last minute, but hopefully someone will catch this in time to come to our Bay Area Icarus Holiday Potluck tomorrow!

Friday, December 17th from 7 to 10pm
at Station 40
(3030 B 16th St, in SF).

All are welcome!

Bring food/bevs/friends, etc.!

CAIROC meeting notes, November 8

Submitted by featherwig on Thu, 11/11/2010 - 9:33pm

These are the meeting notes for the last CAIROC meeting, taken and compiled by danni.

CAIROC meeting notes, October 14

Submitted by featherwig on Sat, 10/16/2010 - 3:42pm

 Main topics:

Saturday Oct 16 event, Crooked Beauty screening. Schedule and roles.

November Speaker Staci Heanes, planning for this event.

December Speaker Ethan Waters.

Alternate venues for future speakers series.

Communication and power concerning CAIROC, Sunday Icarus groups, and Bay Area Icarus organizing.

Anti-opression training in December (open to all icaristas)

Communication with National Icarus, Distro

Crooked Beauty screening at CIIS, Sat. October 16

Submitted by featherwig on Wed, 10/13/2010 - 3:21pm

Crooked Beauty

Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness

Crooked Beauty


A Benefit Film Screening for

The Icarus Project


California Institute for Integral Studies
Namaste Hall

1453 Mission Street (bet. 10th & 11th Streets), San Francisco
Saturday, October 16, 2010
6 - 9pm
$5 - $10 donation
* No one turned away for lack of funds *

www.theicarusproject.net
www.crookedbeauty.com

Bay Area Icarus Speakers Series Presents: Robert Whitaker, author of Anatomy of an Epidemic and Mad in America

Submitted by jacks_ashley on Thu, 09/09/2010 - 2:03pm
Time
October 4 · 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location California Institute of Integral Studies
1453 Mission St, Room 607
San Francisco, CA
 
   
More Info
In his new book, "Anatomy of an Epidemic," award-winning writer Robert Whitaker uncovers and explores the question: Why has the number of chronically mentally ill in the United States tripled since the development of psychiatric medication?

Do psychiatric medications fix "chemical imbalances" in the brain, or create them? How have psych meds worsened long-term mental health outcomes and made recovery a possibility of the past?

J...oin us for an evening with Robert Whitaker, for a different perspective on the story of psych meds. This is the first event of the Icarus Project monthly speaker series, a series which highlights alternative voices in mental health.

$5-10 suggested donation (but no one turned away!)

The Icarus Project is a collaborative radical mental health movement which envisions a new culture and language that resonates with our actual experiences of 'mental illness' rather than trying to fit our lives into a conventional framework. We are a network of people living with and/or affected by experiences that are often diagnosed and labeled as psychiatric conditions. We believe these experiences are mad gifts needing cultivation and care, rather than diseases or disorders.

For more information on our local Bay Area Icarus group, please visit: http://theicarusproject.net/bayareaicarus
or e-mail bay.area.icarus@gmail.com
For more info about The Icarus Project, visit www.theicarusproject.net

This event is made possible in part with assistance from Student Alliance at CIIS.

Firewalkers: Madness, Beauty and Mystery

Submitted by jacks_ashley on Sat, 03/27/2010 - 1:18pm
Date:
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Time:
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location:
Modern Times Bookstore
Street:
888 Valencia St
City/Town:
San Francisco, CA

Firewalkers chronicles the profound, turbulent, spiritual experience of living through a mental health crisis. What our society labels as "mental illness" can be a sacred quest which has the power to enrich us, reveal unknown strengths and transform our lives. A guidebook to radically reinventing mental illness, Firewalkers will challenge your understanding of mental health diagnosis.

Editor Malaina Poore visiting from Virginia and Icarus Project Bay Area members will be on hand to read, present a slideshow and discuss radical perspectives on mental health. All welcome!

 

Reportback from Mad Love Event in SF on Valentine's Day 2010

Submitted by frictitious on Thu, 02/18/2010 - 11:55pm

Bay Area Icarus was revived last summer, and we are officially full of surging, irreverent life.   We held our first event on Valentine's Day--Mad Love.  We had an open mic, a skilled MC, a cabaret of musicians and poets, and the evening skyrocketed to a close with the Brass Liberation Orchestra.

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