Monday July 14th 2008

3:00pm – 5:00pm

The Empowerment Council

1001 Queen Street West

Training room A and B 

Hugging Our History:  Why Psychiatric Survivors Need to ‘Own’ our Mad Past” 

6:00PM – 8:30pm

(meet up at front patio, 1001 Queen St. West. Ossington entrance) 

The Patient Built Wall Tour and Memorial  

The purpose of this tour is to remember the contributions of the men and women who lived, worked, and died in the Toronto Hospital for the Insane. 

This is represented by the boundary walls they built which stand as enduring testament to their abilities and a monument to their endurance. 

We hold up this past symbol to challenge discrimination that is experienced today by people who have a psychiatric history.

Tour Guide:  Geoffrey Reaume 

Attendees are invited to a post tour memorial which will pay tribute to those who went before us.  Organizers ask guests to bring a few lines of words to lend meaning to the moment. 

Members of Psychiatric Survivors Archives Toronto (PSAT) will make a special presentation. 

Tuesday July 15th 2008

3:00pm – 9:30pm

May Robinson Auditorium

20 Westlodge (one block east of Lansdowne, north of Queen) 

Venders (table space is provided for three day run):  Soundtimes , Friendly Spike, A-Way Courier, Mad Students Society, TK Workman, Creative Works Studio (Marlena Zuber), Art by AnnaMarie, Social Phobias Support Group (Earla Dunbar), Greenspiration (Angela Bischoff) Naomi Laufer, Bonnie Briggs, Rob Cusson, Women Won’t Forget  I’m an insane Genius T-shirts, plus collectables by Lavarius

Mad Pride Arts and Education in Literature 

-3:00pm – 9:30pm -Venders

-3:30pm – 5:00pm – Pat Capponi – reading 

-5:00pm – 5:30pm – Reception – Raging Spoon Caters

-5:30pm – 6:30pm – Poetry Workshop with Honey Novick 

Mad Pride Arts and Education in Film 

Check out Mad Pride Film Festival on line , just click here!

-6:30pm – 7:30pm -  Angela Bischoff introduces;  Big Bucks Big Pharma – A film that pulls back the curtain on the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry to expose the insidious ways that illness is used, manipulated and in some instances created for capital gain (46 min)

-7:30 – 7:45;  Tk Workman introduces;  The Cat Talks Back, a film about noise pollution (4 min)

-7:45pm – 8:15pm; –Michael and Erick introduce; The Mad Pride Bed Push Parade from a Kid’s Perspective (30 min)The The Toronto Mad Pride Bed Push 07 any time click here!

-8:15 – 8:30 – Michele Thomson Rosano introduces; Anti Stigmatization Series (6 min)

-8:30 – 9:30 – Angela Bischoff Introduces;  Prescription Suicide The story of 6 kids and their encounters with antidepressant drugs – their lives changed forever. <http://www.prescriptionsuicide.com/> 

Wednesday July 16th 2008

3:00pm to 6:30pm

May Robinson Auditorium

20 Westlodge (one block east of Lansdowne, north of Queen) 

Mad Pride Arts and Education in Human Rights 

-3:30pm – 5:00pm – Rights Forum,  Facilitator; Ayshia Musleh, PCLS  

-5:00pm – Brown Bag snack from Houselink Community Kitchen 

-5:00pm – 6:30pm –Focused discussion lead by D. Marchand;  The Supreme court of Canada presents:  Welcome to Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World” – adoptees; Sperm bank babies;  Human created by new reproductive technologies and other deliberately created genetic orphans;

some emotional, mental and physical repercussions;  the SSCC’s decision that human beings do not have a right to true biological information;  the creation of the right to procreate anonymously and offer your child to the adoption industry;  and, the death of section 15 Charter equality rights.

Mad Pride and Disability 

-7pm – 9:30pm - Art With Attitude presented by Ryerson University’s  School of Disability Studies – detail to come  

Venue TBA 

Thursday July 17th 2008

1:00pm – 3:00pm

Samuel Malcolmson Lecture Theatre

1001 Queen Street West 

   The Empowerment Council hosts;

-1:00pm – 1:30pm – Zoned Out:  How zoning rules discriminate against psychiatric survivors – by Lilith Finkler

   - 1:45pm – 3:00pm – Relief and Resistance;  A poor peoples history of East downtown – Toronto, by Gaetan Heroux 

3:30pm – 9:30pm

May Robinson Auditorium

20 Westlodge 

Mad Pride Arts and Education on Stage 

-3:30pm – 5:00pm – Vending

-5:00pm – 5:30pm – Sketch Animation with Francesca and Lila Rose

-5:10pm – 6pm - Mind Storm written and directed Matthew Christie, a one act play staring Henrik Kartna and Rob Proetto

-6:30pm – 7pm -  Therapy written by Michael and JiJi Voronka, performed by Julie Devaney and JiJi Voronka  

-7:00pm – 8:00pm – Mad and Proud with David-Jan Juresek and Playback Theatre

Playback Theatre is a kind of theatre where you the audience are invited to tell stories from your life and a trained group of emphatic actors and musicians play them back.  It is a community ritual and a spontaneous event – come and share or simply relax and watch!

-8:00pm -9:00pm – Tied Together, a Mad People’s History Play by The Friendly Spike Theatre Band   

     

Friday July 18th 2008

6:00pm – 9:00pm

Parkdale Activity Recreation Centre

1499 Queen Street West 

Mad Pride Poetry Night and

Bobbi Nahwegahbow Memorial Award Presentation 

Poets interested in reading their work should sign up at PARC at 6pm. 

Saturday July 19th 2008

1:00pm -3:00pm

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)

1001 Queen Street West

Front Patio (Ossington Entrance) 

Second Annual Mad Pride Bed Push Parade 

Gather on CAMH Patio at 1pm.  We will hold a short presentation and then

Parade west on the south side walk to Parkdale Activity Recreation Centre

The Toronto Mad Pride Bed Push Film will be shown at P.A.R.K 

3:00pm – 7:00pm

Parkdale Activity Recreation Centre

1499 Queen Street West

Toronto Ontario 

Mad Pride Toronto Bed Push Party 

Refreshments, entertainment and fun – hosted by PARC 

Sunday July 20th

1:00pm – 3:00pm

Sally Horsfall Eaton (SHE) Building

99 Gerrard St. East

Room 560

Toronto, Ontario 

Workshop  ( detail to come)

     Thank YOU all !  
       Lets Be Mad Again. See You next year! 09.ER M.A.D.Pride Toronto.