Vermont
2022 Vermont Mad Pride March and Celebration in Burlington on July 16, 2022
BURLINGTON, VT, June 2, 2022 – The annual Mad Pleasure March and Celebration that celebrates psychiatric survivors, customers, mad individuals and folk the world has labeled “mentally sick” kicks off Saturday, July 16, 2022, in Burlington. Marchers will meet at 12pm at Church and Fundamental Streets and march to Battery Park for a proper program from 1 PM to three PM of music, spoken phrase and speeches. Lunch can be supplied, and the primary 100 individuals will obtain free, commemorative t-shirts.
All are welcome to take part. Registration (tinyurl.com/vtmadpride2022) is requested however nobody can be turned away. ASL interpreters can be supplied, different lodging out there on request. For extra particulars, go to www.MadPrideVermont.org.
Borrowing from Homosexual Pleasure, Mad Pleasure is about difficult discrimination towards of us the world has labeled “mentally sick,” advocating for rights, affirming mad identifies, remembering and collaborating in mad historical past and having enjoyable. The lives of psychiatric survivors, customers, mad individuals and folk the world has labeled “mentally sick” are useful and want celebration.
Vermont Mad Pleasure is organized by representatives of Vermont peer-led organizations and peer leaders dedicated to making a kinder world for folk who expertise psychological and emotional misery. “Peer” is a common time period used to explain people with lived expertise of psychological well being challenges.
Sponsors to this point embody Vermont Psychiatric Survivors, Pathways Vermont, Vermont Developmental Disabilities Council, MadFreedom, Inc., Vermont Division of Public Security, LMW Design, Vermont Affiliation of Hospitals and Hospital Methods, Vermont Cooperative for Observe Enchancment & Innovation, Middle for Well being and Studying, and Wilda L. White Consulting.
These inquisitive about sponsorship alternatives ought to e mail [email protected]. For extra data, please phone Wilda L. White at (802) 770-4050.
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