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Dialectical Living answered our seven questions about their workshop and Mad Pride. Check out the Introduction to Mindful Living workshop at Mad Pride Week Toronto on Friday, July 15 at Ryerson University (4:30-5:45 SHE 660 (99 Gerrard St E, near Jarvis)) [Full event list]

Mindfulness by http://www.dialecticalliving.ca/
Mindfulness by http://www.dialecticalliving.ca/

Q. What are you most excited about with your workshop at Mad Pride?

1. Dialectical Living is most excited about sharing with Mad activists and allies the innumerable benefits of mindfulness in everyday life on July 15th at Ryerson University (4:30 – 5:45 pm SHE 660 (99 Gerrard St E, near Jarvis)). Thanks to Mad volunteers for setting up this great space.

Q What do we need to know about you and your Mad Self (as a group or individual)?

2. What you need to know about Dialectical Living is we are a peer based organization. That means all Dialectical Living employees and volunteers have lived experience.

Q How do you describe your experience with madness?

3. Our peers have various experiences with madness. One of our peer workers, Kristen, wrote a great piece on being a mother with a mental health history. Check it out!

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Here’s your Guide to a Mad Week…

 

What is Mad Pride?

Mad Pride Community is growing like a tree.

Events

Picture of Mad Pride 2015 - Bed Push
Mad discussions and forums, Friendly Spike Theatre Band, Mad Hatter Street Festival, MADx, SOS, Bed Push (Mad Pride Parade), Picnic

Volunteer – Mad Pride Toronto

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 Participate and Perform

Christine Shaheen makes multi-textured mad art http://www.christineshaheen.me/

Art, dance, comedy, sketch, writing, poetry. Music. & Peer supporters.

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MADx by night advertisement for event Friday 15 July 15, 2015 at the Imperial Pub, 54 Dundas St. E. Toronto

“What does it take to free our selves of what or who others would have us be?”

The-Rebellion.ca presents MADx by night during Mad Pride Toronto 2016. Come to laugh, rant, and rebel:

  • Friday July 15th 2016 from 7:00 to 11:00
  • @ Imperial Pub (54 Dundas St. E., Toronto).
MADx by night advertisement for event Friday 15 July 15, 2015 at the Imperial Pub, 54 Dundas St. E. Toronto
MADx by night Friday 15 July 15, 2016 at the Imperial Pub, 54 Dundas St. E. Toronto

More information from The-Rebellion.ca  about MADx

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Banners and bright colour signs from the mad pride parade in Salvador, Brazil

We are moving beyond stigma. We have history. We can be awesome.

Share me and get involved in this years Parade. torontomadpride@gmail.com subject line: “Bed Push Parade”

Banners and bright colour signs from the mad pride parade in Salvador, Brazil
Mad Pride parade in Salvador, Brazil, in 2009

By Alfredo Mascarenhas – originally posted to Flickr as II Parada do Orgulho Louco, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7102426

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Mad Pride Toronto invites you and your organization to create signs and banners to show off your pride at this years Bed-Push.

Picture of Mad Pride 2015 - Bed Push
Mad Pride 2015 – Bed Push

Marches are more fun and powerful when banners show solidarity and a great sense of humour. Especially when they include Mad-Puns: “Madvocates move me”, “I am Mad about equality”, “Truly Madly Deeply”, “MadInfo makes you Madawesome”. Here is some inspiration from France ( lamadpride@gmail.com).

MAD PRIDE 2015 – 13 juin à Paris

Do you have questions about making signs and banners? We will have a sign party closer to the March, but stay in touch and talk to your organization now.

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