Mad Pride Week Events Schedule


MON       –  JUNE 1st
12 to 3 pm     Winged People on Red Square – *VOW OF SILENCE*

*Mad Pride  POTLUCK / SPOKEN WORD   (7-9 pm  Organic Farm)*

TUES.       –  JUNE 2nd
12 to 3 pm     Winged People on Red Square

*Film Screening  (4-6pm B1105)  :   Great Speeches from a Dying World*
Linas Phillip carefully constructs GREAT SPEECHES FROM A DYING WORLD in a way that elicits compassion for a harshly marginalized group of society’s visionaries- a film that follows the lives of 9 people who reside on Seattle streets and confide their stories of hard luck, “wrong” turns, and broken dreams.  Interspersed with candid interviews, each person performs a famous speech in history, revealing the depths of their wisdom, empathy, and strikingly prophetic worldview.

*Film Screening  (7-9pm B1105)  :   The Video Works of Per Frykdahl*
PER FRYKDAHL’S work inspired the songs and art of the band Sleepytime Gorilla Museum. He lived diagnosed with a “serious mental illness” and received renown for his work just a year before he died at age 35 in 2005.

WED.        – JUNE 3rd
12 to 3 pm     Winged People on Red Square

*Guest Speaker  WILL HALL (7-9 pm C1107) :  What is Mad Pride?*
What does it mean to be labeled with a "mental disorder" in a crazy world?

Come hear Icarus project co-coordinator Will Hall, who is diagnosed with schizophrenia, describe and lead a discussion about Mad Pride, a growing movement of people around the world who are reclaiming mental diversity from medical authority and creating new pathways of healing.
 
THURS.     – JUNE 4
12 to 3 pm     Winged People on Red Square

* Workshop by WILL HALL  (4-6 pm  A1105) :  Ear Acupuncture Demo for Trauma *
Receive a supportive treatment at this demonstration of how ear acupuncture in low-cost community clinics can help heal trauma, detox the body, and form the center of an activist organizing strategy for empowering healthcare.

*Discussion w/ WILL HALL  (7-9 pm  A1105) :  Trauma & Healing for Activists*
Oppression is emotionally traumatic, and activists are often traumatized in our struggles. What is emotional trauma, how do we heal it, and what are the connections between trauma and social activism? Join this presentation and discussion with Will Hall,
co-coordinator of The Icarus Project and co-founder of Freedom Center.

FRI            – JUNE 5
12 to 3 pm     Winged People on Red Square

*Film Screening  (4-6 pm  C1105)  :   The Doctor Who Hears Voices*
THE DOCTOR WHO HEARS VOICES tells the true story of Ruth’s unorthodox journey to regain her profession as a doctor who hears voices.  Ruth’s journey of reclamation is guided by a maverick psychologist, Rufus May, who believes there is no such thing as schizophrenia, that medication can destroy lives and that there’s nothing wrong with hearing voices.  In this powerful and thought-provoking film, BAFTA-award winning director Leo Regan, takes a challenging look at how society deals with mental illness, using an innovative mix of contemporaneous documentary footage and dramatized scenes. To protect her anonymity, Ruth is played by BAFTA-nominated actress Ruth Wilson and some details have been changed.

*Film Screening  (7-9 pm  C1105)  :   The Devil and Daniel Johnston*
His drawings and sketches are exhibited and sold worldwide.  Beck, Wilco, Sonic Youth and Pearl Jam have recorded his songs.  But beneath Daniel Johnston’s success as an artist and musician is an incredible story of genius touched by madness: diagnosed as manic-depressive.  Johnston has spent the last three decades of his life in-and-out of mental institutions.  Told through a compelling combination of interviews, home movies and performance footage, THE DEVIL AND DANIEL JOHNSTON is a “harrowing, hilarious, and ultimately moving new documentary and film.”  -Jim Farber & Elizabeth Weltzman, New York Daily News

*VIGIL (9pm  Red Square)*
Open to everyone - Therapeutic circle by candle light, a space to tell stories that invite public and survivors to live vicariously through our healing and give permission to grieve through our grieving - Together.