Mad Pride is an arts, culture, and heritage festival created by psychiatric survivors, consumers, mad people, folks the world has labelled "mentally ill", and those in solidarity with us.

Mad Pride is about:
• remembering and participating in mad history
• challenging discrimination
• advocating for rights
• affirming mad identities
• developing and empowering mad communities
• having fun!

Our lives and contributions are valuable and need celebration!

All events are free. Festivities include educational talks/panels, theatre, music, art, poetry, comedy, films, craft/vendor sales, information booths, mad hatter tea parties and more.

Description(English follows):

Le mois de la santé mentale est enfin arrivé! Ce mois consiste en une série d'événements qui met l'accent sur la santé mentale dans toutes ses contextes. Les événements seront à la fois amusants et aussi éducatifs -- Joignez-vous à nous! Consultez notre horaire - quelques événements sont ci-dessous et il y a plus à venir!

Atelier de musicothérapie Studio danse de Montpetit

Smash patriarchy, racism, and all forms of oppression ...and have fun doing it for our friend Abla!

You can create a team of up to 6 players or just show up and join a team. Cost is pay what you can after the cost of the shoe rental and game costs are covered.

If you have any other ideas for fundraising during this event or would like to just donate send us an email at bowling4justice@gmail.com

Also please check out the Justice for Abla facebook group for more details.

This overview of radical consent for mad folks from radical sex education could easily be turned into a workshop.

A great outline to pair with this is the learning good consent zine, which also has an outline for basic consent workshops in it (page 14). For mad folks, consent is as much about defining what their madness can feel like as well as their level of comfort with a person.

People with mental illnesses are often forced into the Canadian psychiatric complex, whether through inpatient detainment, prescription of drugs or other ways. Mad movements in Canada mirror much of the same principles as the disability rights movement, by using mental illnesses as a source of pride and an identity.

Though there is nothing wrong with voluntarily seeking counselling or drug treatments, when these are interventions taken on behalf of people's well being by the system things become problematic. Often the rights of people in the psychiatric complex are trampled, they are manipulated and coerced.