Join us on April 6th, 2013 from 1-5pm for an interactive Icarus Workshop based on the Icarus Project book, Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness…
This interactive workshop is based on the classic Icarus Project book, Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness, which is being re-released this Spring in its new 10th edition! We’ll talk about what it means to be “crazy” in a crazy world, and find language for our own experiences of mental health and emotional/spiritual distress. Through facilitated discussion, writing, partnered exercises, sharing stories, and working on our own wellness maps, we’ll develop our visions of self-care and community healing.
Facilitated by Jacks Ashley McNamara and Sascha Altman DuBrul.
Sascha Altman DuBrul has been documenting and fomenting underground culture and radical people’s movements since he was a young teenager., From the anarchist squatter community in new York city to the Lacandon jungle of Chiapas, Mexico, to the Earth 1st! Road blockades of the Pacific Northwest to the rise of the global Justice movement, he’ s been a pioneer in urban farming and creative mental health advocacy. Diagnosed bipolar, Sascha is the co-founder of the Bay Area Seed Interchange Library and the Icarus Project, a radical community support network and media project that’ s actively redefining the language and culture of mental health and illness with over 14,000 members and dozens of peer based supports groups all over the world. For almost 2 decades he has been keeping a detailed journal of his life experiences with collage art and writing. He is a strong believer in the power of collective dreams.
Jacks Ashley McNamara is a painter, illustrator, poet, educator, and mental health activist based in Oakland, California. A trauma survivor who is also diagnosed bipolar, Jacks has looked for meaning in their madness for over a dozen years, and co-founded The Icarus Project in 2002. Jacks is the co-author of the book Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness, and has shown art, facilitated workshops, and performed poetry across North America and Europe. Most recently they were the featured artist at the Manhattan exhibition Navigating Disability, as part of the Reelabilities Film Festival. Their art and activism is the subject of the poetic documentary Crooked Beauty. Their first solo book Lung Seed, a collection of poetry and prose, is due out from Deviant Type Press in March 2013.
The workshop will be held on a donation basis, no one turned away. Gallery Gachet is a fairly accessible space. Here is some information on accessibility:
The workshop has a suggested donation of $15-35 for those with means, nobody will be turned away for lack of funds.
This event has been supported in part with a generous grant from SFPIRG.
front door: 5 feet width
front door step: 6 inch height (but we have a ramp)
ramp: 31 inch width
washroom door: 33 inch width
toilet: 10 inch clearance on left side
14″ inch clearance in front to sink
Please refrain from the use of scented products.
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Icarus Workshop: Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness
Join us on April 6th, 2013 from 1-5pm for an interactive Icarus Workshop based on the Icarus Project book, Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness…
This interactive workshop is based on the classic Icarus Project book, Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness, which is being re-released this Spring in its new 10th edition! We’ll talk about what it means to be “crazy” in a crazy world, and find language for our own experiences of mental health and emotional/spiritual distress. Through facilitated discussion, writing, partnered exercises, sharing stories, and working on our own wellness maps, we’ll develop our visions of self-care and community healing.
Facilitated by Jacks Ashley McNamara and Sascha Altman DuBrul.
Sascha Altman DuBrul has been documenting and fomenting underground culture and radical people’s movements since he was a young teenager., From the anarchist squatter community in new York city to the Lacandon jungle of Chiapas, Mexico, to the Earth 1st! Road blockades of the Pacific Northwest to the rise of the global Justice movement, he’ s been a pioneer in urban farming and creative mental health advocacy. Diagnosed bipolar, Sascha is the co-founder of the Bay Area Seed Interchange Library and the Icarus Project, a radical community support network and media project that’ s actively redefining the language and culture of mental health and illness with over 14,000 members and dozens of peer based supports groups all over the world. For almost 2 decades he has been keeping a detailed journal of his life experiences with collage art and writing. He is a strong believer in the power of collective dreams.
Jacks Ashley McNamara is a painter, illustrator, poet, educator, and mental health activist based in Oakland, California. A trauma survivor who is also diagnosed bipolar, Jacks has looked for meaning in their madness for over a dozen years, and co-founded The Icarus Project in 2002. Jacks is the co-author of the book Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness, and has shown art, facilitated workshops, and performed poetry across North America and Europe. Most recently they were the featured artist at the Manhattan exhibition Navigating Disability, as part of the Reelabilities Film Festival. Their art and activism is the subject of the poetic documentary Crooked Beauty. Their first solo book Lung Seed, a collection of poetry and prose, is due out from Deviant Type Press in March 2013.
The workshop will be held on a donation basis, no one turned away. Gallery Gachet is a fairly accessible space. Here is some information on accessibility:
The workshop has a suggested donation of $15-35 for those with means, nobody will be turned away for lack of funds.
This event has been supported in part with a generous grant from SFPIRG.
front door: 5 feet width
front door step: 6 inch height (but we have a ramp)
ramp: 31 inch width
washroom door: 33 inch width
toilet: 10 inch clearance on left side
14″ inch clearance in front to sink
Please refrain from the use of scented products.