Creativity and Madness:
Celebration or Stereotype?
Mad Pride Day, Sunday, July 15, 1?3pm

Correlations have been found between creativity and mental health diagnoses, but there is an inherent danger in ascribing talent to one?s health condition. It can deny the voice of the individual, and reduce the success of consumer/outsider artists to a stereotype of the mad artist. Workshop participants have the option of creating an art piece and having it photographed and displayed as a part of a dialogue for the duration of this show.

Changing the Mental Health System
Mad Pride Day, Sunday, July 15, 3-5:30pm
Free, light meal served at beginning of session.

The Alliance for People?s Health and Gallery Gachet Collective are jointly conducting a workshop to examine the roots of ill health in our community and people?s visions for change within the psychiatric and mental health system.

The objectives of the workshops are to: identify key health issues community members face; discuss the human rights of mental health consumers and psychiatric survivors; investigate health in our mental health and Downtown Eastside communities; document the health concerns of workshop participants; explore the roots of these issues; discuss possible strategies and actions to improve community health; encourage community members to take action for health.

The workshop will involve popular education, discussion, and presentation. All participants will have the opportunity to actively join in, share their experiences, analysis and visions for possible change. All sharing will strictly respect participant?s confidentiality.

The Alliance for People?s Health (APH) is an organization of health workers, grassroots organizers and people committed to the struggle for health for all, and affiliated to the People?s Health Movement www.phmovement.org. We envision healthy communities where everyone has access to health care, housing, education, transportation, childcare, food, and meaningful employment.