Mad love and Self love
NYC Icarus brings together our community to discuss love
When
Wednesday, February 5th, 2020
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where
Bluestockings Books
172 Allen Street
New York, NY
Madness, Creativity, and the Artistic Pursuit with Issa Ibrahim
NYC Icarus brings together our community to Seek creativity
When
Wednesday, Dec 4th, 2019
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where
Bluestockings Books
172 Allen Street
New York, NY
A conversation on Safety and Harm in relationships
NYC Icarus brings together our community to Seek saftey
When
Wednesday, Noveber 6th, 2019
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where
Bluestockings Books
172 Allen Street
New York, NY
Challenging Social Conformity and Cultivating Self-Care
NYC Icarus brings together our community to challange social conformity
When
Wednesday, October 2th, 2019
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where
Bluestockings Books
172 Allen Street
New York, NY
Exploring Altered States and Non-Consensus Realities
NYC Icarus brings together our community to explore realities
When
Wednesday, Septempter 4th, 2019
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where
Bluestockings Books
172 Allen Street
New York, NY
Examining Ourselves: A Community Conversation
NYC Icarus brings together our community to examine ourselves
When
Wednesday, August 7th, 2019
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where
Bluestockings Books
172 Allen Street
New York, NY
Crossing 'Borders': social and psychic costs
NYC Icarus brings together our community to cross borders
When
Wednesday, June 5th, 2019
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where
Bluestockings Books
172 Allen Street
New York, NY
Cultivating Our Sense of Home – An Earth Day Gathering
NYC Icarus brings together our community in Cultivating Our Sense of Home – An Earth Day Gathering
When
Wednesday, April 3th, 2019
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where
Bluestockings Books
172 Allen Street
New York, NY
Seeking care in institutional settings
NYC Icarus brings together our community to Seeking care in institutional settings
When
Wednesday, March 6th, 2019
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where
Bluestockings Books
172 Allen Street
New York, NY
Loss and Mourning
NYC Icarus brings together our community to discuss loss and mourning
When
Wednesday, February 6th, 2019
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where
Bluestockings Books
172 Allen Street
New York, NY
Staying Mad During the Holidays
NYC Icarus brings together folx to give mutual support during holidays
When
Wednesday, December 5th, 2018
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where
Bluestockings Books
172 Allen Street
New York, NY
Communicating with the Difficult Psychiatrist
NYC Icarus brings together folx to offer advice and suggestions about communicating with psychiatrists
When
Wednesday, November 7st, 2018
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where
Bluestockings Books
172 Allen Street
New York, NY
Violence, Coercion, or Treatment: A Community Conversation about Inpatient Psychiatric Hospitalization
NYC Icarus brings together folx to talk about inpatient coercion
When
Wednesday, September 5th, 2018
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where
Bluestockings Books
172 Allen Street
New York, NY
Symptom, Resistance, or Madness? : Suicide within Our Communities
NYC Icarus brings together folx to talk suicide, from thoughts, to viewpoints, to systemic oppression
When
Wednesday, August 1st, 2018
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Where
Bluestockings Books
172 Allen Street
New York, NY
The activism, movements and frameworks in mental health
NYC Icarus brings together folx to talk all the way lens to frame mental health
When
Wednesday, June 6th, 2018
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Where
Bluestockings Books
172 Allen Street
New York, NY
Beyond the Protest: Rallying for Cognitive Liberation
NYC Icarus along with collaborating groups protests the American Psychiatric Association 2018
When
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where
Bluestockings Books
172 Allen Street
New York, NY
The Myth of Mass Shootings and Mental Health
NYC Icarus brings together folx to discuss myth of mass shootings
When
Wednesday, April 4, 2018
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where
Bluestockings Books
172 Allen Street
New York, NY
An exploration of Madness, Identity and Healing
NYC Icarus brings together folx to talk about how who we are effects how we heal
When
Wednesday, February 7th, 2018
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Where
Bluestockings Books
172 Allen Street
New York, NY
The Hospital Doesn't Have To Win and Other Alternatives
NYC Icarus brings together folx to support Issa Ibrahim
When
Wednesday, January 3rd, 2018
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where
Bluestockings Books
172 Allen Street
New York, NY
Creating The People's DSM: Neurodiversity and Madness
NYC Icarus brings together folx to share about Neurodiversity
When
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2017
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Where
Bluestockings Books
172 Allen Street
New York, NY
Us Too & Solidarity Open Mic
NYC Icarus brings together folx to share about trauma, community, care, healing
When
Wednesday, November 1st, 2017
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Where
Bluestockings Books
172 Allen Street
New York, NY
The Power of Love in the Face of Hate
NYC Icarus brings together folx to talk about love, community, care, mentorship
When
Wednesday, October 4th, 2017
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Where
Bluestockings Books
172 Allen Street
New York, NY
Summer Solidarity 2017
NYC Icarus brings together folx to share what's happening
When
Wednesday, September 6th, 2017
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Where
Bluestockings Books
172 Allen Street
New York, NY
Exploring the Effects of Climate on Mental Health
NYC Icarus Presents: Erica Fletcher, PhD
When
Wednesday, August 2nd, 2017
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Where
Bluestockings Books
172 Allen Street
New York, NY
Developing the People's DSM
NYC Icarus Presents: Nikomeh Anderson and the Free Arts Festival
When
Wednesday, July 5th, 2017
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Where
Bluestockings Books
172 Allen Street
New York, NY
The NADA protocol and Building Collective Community Action
NYC Icarus Presents: Jo Ann Lenney and Nikomeh Anderson
When
Wednesday, June 7th, 2017
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Where
Bluestockings Books
172 Allen Street
New York, NY
Peer Specialists, We Must Breathe & Breaking the Binary Workshop
Join Nikomeh and Kevin as they share stories and information about breathing, healing and support.
When
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2017
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where
Bluestockings Books
172 Allen Street
New York, NY
Plant allies Workshop
Join Christine and Stephanie as they Share stories and information about their favorite plant allies for mood and mind!
When
Wednesday, April 5th, 2017
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where
Bluestockings Books
172 Allen Street
New York, NY
Building Resilience in Hard Times through T-MAPs
Transformative Mutual Aid Practices (T-MAPs) is an emerging set of community-developed workshops that provide tools and space for building a personal “map” o...
When
Wednesday, March 1st 2017
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Where
Bluestockings Books
172 Allen Street
New York, NY
Friends Make the Best Medicine: An Icarus Peer Support Mixer
We will come together to meet one another and brainstorm ways to take care of each other even in extreme emotional and political crises.
When
Wednesday, February 1st 2017
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Where
Bluestockings Books
172 Allen Street
New York, NY
Lived Through That: An Open Mic Celebrating Survival in 2016
If you’re reading this right now, you survived 2016. Whether you’re bent out of shape and holding on by the skin of your teeth or are feeling cautiously opti...
When
Wednesday, January 4th 2017
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Where
Bluestockings Books
172 Allen Street
New York, NY
Mad Solidarity in a World Gone Mad
The recent election results have been shocking and hard on many us. Join us for discussion, solidarity-building group activities, and resource sharing in sup...
When
Wednesday, December 7th 2016
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Where
Bluestockings Books
172 Allen Street
New York, NY
MAD in NYC
This month NYC Icarus will host 'MAD in NYC': surviving and thriving in the city (& metro area): a discussion and resource sharing event on November 2nd at 7...
When
Wednesday, November 2nd 2016
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Where
Bluestockings Books
172 Allen Street
New York, NY
Caught in the Web: Mad Lives and the Internet
This month NYC Icarus will host 'Caught in the Web: Mad Lives and the Internet': a discussion of topics at the intersection of madness and information techno...
When
Wednesday, October 5th 2016
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Where
Bluestockings Books
172 Allen Street
New York, NY
Shrink Rap: Examining Our Experiences With Therapy
This month NYC Icarus will host 'Shrink Rap': a discussion of questions around the topic of therapy and therapists on September 7th at 7pm at the Bluestockin...
When
Wednesday, September 7th 2016
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where
Bluestockings Books
172 Allen Street
New York, NY
A viewing & discussion of 'Dont change the subject'
This month NYC Icarus will host a screening and discussion about suicide by showing a recent film by Mike Stutz on August 3rd at 7pm at the Bluestockings Boo...
When
Wednesday, August 3rd 2016
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where
Bluestockings Books
172 Allen Street
New York, NY
Annual Mad Summer Picnic
On Sat July 9th we will gather in Washington Sq park to chill, hang, commune and mingle.
When
Sat, July 9th 2016
3:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where
Washington Sq. Pk (away from the fountain)
West 4th St. and Waverly Pl.
New York, NY
Crowdsourcing for Projects In Action - #FirstResort
This month NYC Icarus will host a multipart event highlighting Orlando, talking about the Murphy Bill and seeking to co-create a viral video campaign
When
Wednesday, July 6st 2016
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where
Bluestockings Books
172 Allen Street
New York, NY
A viewing & discussion of 'Take These Broken Wings: Recovery from Schizophrenia without Medication'
This month NYC Icarus will host a screening and discussion about schizophrenia on June 1st at 7pm at the Bluestockings Bookstore and Activist Center. A que...
When
Wednesday, June 1st 2016
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where
Bluestockings Books
172 Allen Street
New York, NY
Open Mad Night: A Share and Tell Of Madness and Self Expression
On May 4th at 7pm at the Bluestockings Bookstore and Activist Center we will open the floor for sharing of: visual art, poems, theatre pieces, songs, stories...
When
Wednesday, May 4th 2016
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where
Bluestockings Books
172 Allen Street
New York, NY
Psychiatric Advanced Directives: How to Create Crisis Plans and Rally Your Community in Times of Need
This month NYC Icarus organizer Jazmine Russell will present tools that can enable you and your chosen community on April 6th at 7pm at the Bluestockings Boo...
When
Wednesday, April 6th 2016
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where
Bluestockings Books
172 Allen Street
New York, NY
Film and Discussion with Filmmaker: Daniel Mackler's _Coming Off Psych Drugs_
This month NYC Icarus and filmmaker Daniel Mackler will host a screening and discussion about withdrawl on March 2nd at 7pm at the Bluestockings Bookstore a...
When
Wednesday, March 2nd 2016
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where
Bluestockings Books
172 Allen Street
New York, NY
Celebrating and Caring for Our Mad Love
Come share stories of mad love in community, in romance, and in ourselves. We will be sharing personal accounts of the various ways our friendships, peer gro...
When
Wednesday, Februry 3th, 2016
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where
Bluestockings Books
172 Allen Street
New York, NY
Helping or Harming? Tim Murphy’s (R-PA) Mental Health Crisis Act
This month NYC Icarus will host a discussion about the “Murphy Bill”, also known as Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act of 2015 (H.R.2646 http://mur...
When
Wednesday, January 6th, 2016
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where
Bluestockings Books
172 Allen Street
New York, NY
A Madmaking Winter Social
The Icarus NYC Chapter is celebrating a successful year of Bluestockings events with a social centered around our most significant principles: [Friends Make ...
When
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2015
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where
Bluestockings Books
3172 Allen Street
New York, NY
Psychiatry in the age of Mental Health and Neoliberal Policy
Join us for a presentation and a Q/A with Amjad Hindi MD, a psychiatrist and a member of the Radical Caucus of the APA and the Critical Psychiatry Committee ...
When
Wednesday, November 4th, 2015
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where
Bluestockings Books
3172 Allen Street
New York, NY
Out of Words: An Experiment in Wordless Expressions
Join us at Bluestockings next Wednesday for an evening of collaborative audio and visual expression (no artistic experience or skill necessary)!
When
Wednesday, October 7th, 2015
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where
Bluestockings Books
3172 Allen Street
New York, NY
Herbalism Workshop
Join an NYC Icarus organizer, Jacqui Daniels and friends as they Share stories and information about their favorite plant allies for mood and mind!
When
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2015
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where
Bluestockings Books
3172 Allen Street
New York, NY
Self Defense Meditation from the Trenches of Madness
This workshop will teach you rock solid super simple meditation techniques to combat anxiety, paranoia and depression when it really matters - and we'll be u...
When
Wednesday, August 5th, 2015
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where
Bluestockings Books
3172 Allen Street
New York, NY
Poetry Reading With Leah Lakshmi Piepzna Samarasinha
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha will be sharing her award-winning brilliant poetry in conversation with the Icarus community on July 8th in NYC - join us! S...
When
Wednesday, July 7, 2015
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where
Judson Memorial Church Assembly Hall
239 Thompson Street
New York, NY
Narratives of Madness Show and Tell
The Icarus Project New York invites you to their very first show and tell. What is your most prized possession? What is an object in your life that gives you...
When
Wednesday, July 1st, 2015
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm, 2015
Where
Bluestockings Books
3172 Allen Street
New York, NY
Book Launch of Psychiatry Disrupted by Dr. Bonnie Burstow
On Monday, June 29th, you are invited to the North American Debut: New York Book Launch of Psychiatry Disrupted: Theorizing Resistance and Crafting the (R)ev...
When
Monday, June 29th, 2015
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where
Bluestockings Books
3172 Allen Street
New York, NY
Hearing Voices & NYC Icarus Project: “What happened to you?” A discussion and gathering on trauma and emotional distress
“What happened to you?” A discussion and gathering on trauma and emotional distress with Hearing Voices NYC
When
Thursday, June 18th, 2015
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Where
Jefferson Market Library
425 Avenue of the Americas between 9th and 10th Ave
New York, NY
T-MAPs Workshops with Sascha co-founder The Icarus Project
Transformative Mutual Aid Practices (T-MAPs) is a set of community-developed workshops that provide tools and space for building a personal “map” of resilien...
When
Monday through Thursday, June 8th-10th, 2015
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where
Howie the Harp Center
2090 Adam Clayton Powell Jr Blvd # 12
New York, NY 10027
Left Forum: NYC Icarus Project Forum Theater
Icarus Project NYC has recently started a Forum Theater group that brings the approaches of Mad Maps into a more social and performative format. We take exam...
When
Saturday, May 30th, 2015
5:10 pm - 7:00 pm
Where
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
524 West 59th Street
New York, NY 10019
Left Forum: Neoliberalism and Psychiatry. How Do We Respond?
NYC Icarus Project Organizer/Co-founder Sascha DuBrul, members of the Radical Caucus of the American Psychiatric Association, and the Critical Psychiatry Net...
When
Sunday, May 31th, 2015
12:00 pm - 1:50 pm
Where
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
524 West 59th Street
New York, NY 10019
Left Forum: New Mad Pride Movement Debate
NYC Icarus Project Organizer/Co-founder Sascha DuBrul debates anti-psychiatry activist Dr. Seth Farber. Dr Seth Farber's neo-Laingian perspective will be cri...
When
Saturday, May 30th, 2015
10:00 am - 11:50 am
Where
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
524 West 59th Street
New York, NY 10019
International Protest Against Electroshock Therapy
ECT (electroconvulsive therapy) involves the application of two electrodes to the head to pass electricity through the brain with the goal of causing an inte...
When
Saturday, May 16th, 2015
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm, 2015
Where
Bluestockings Books
3172 Allen Street
New York, NY
WNYC Presents BREAKING POINT: New York’s Mental Health Crisis
Special Guest First Lady of NYC, CHIRLANE MCCRAY in partnership with Vera Institute of Justice and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New ...
When
Thursday, March 26, 2015
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm, 2015
Where
Schomburg Center
515 Malcolm X Blvd
New York, NY 10037
Free Film Screening of Gabriel with NYC Icarus Guest Speaker Sascha DuBrul
Come bring a friend and watch the new film Gabriel (2014) about a mentally ill young man, followed by a community conversation about popular narratives of ma...
When
Thursday, March 12, 2015
6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Where
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
524 West 59th Street
New York, NY 10019
NYC Icarus Forum Theater
This month's exciting Icarus Project event will feature a Forum Theater style play, developed and performed by members of the Icarus community. The scenes wi...
When
Wednesday, March 4th, 2015
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where
Bluestockings Books
3172 Allen Street
New York, NY
Voices From the British Psychological Society
Please join us in welcoming Anne Cooke and Professor Peter Kinderman from the British Psychological Society. We will be hosting a panel discussion followed b...
When
Sunday, March 23rd, 2015
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where
Bluestockings Books
3172 Allen Street
New York, NY
Performance by The Hungerpeace Project + Alternatives to Psychiatry in Chile & Argentina reportback by Sascha
Hungerpeace is a living performance experience, addressing in full-light the issues of eating disorder, destructive habitual behavior, and negative self imag...
When
Wednesday, February 4th, 2015
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where
Bluestockings Books
3172 Allen Street
New York, NY
Free Screening of Documentary Crooked Beauty
Icarus organizers will be showing the internationally acclaimed and award winning documentary, Crooked Beauty. The film follows the personal journey of Icaru...
When
Wednesday, January 7th, 2015
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where
Bluestockings Books
3172 Allen Street
New York, NY
Movements: Politics, Performance, and Disability
This year's Scholar & Feminist conference brings together feminism and disability studies, two fields that have contributed to the interrogation of the publi...
When
Saturday, February 26, 2011
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Where
Barnard College
3009 Broadway (at 117th Street)
New York, NY
Jonathan Metzl MD PhD Book Talk
In The Protest Psychosis, psychiatrist and cultural critic Jonathan Metzl tells the shocking story of how schizophrenia became the diagnostic term overwhelmi...
When
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
6:00 - 8:00 PM
Where
20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor
New York, NY