Fighting Psychiatric Institutions - Pat Capponi Talk

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FIGHTING PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTIONS, POVERTY & HOMELESSNESS
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A Public Talk by Pat Capponi

Remaking Ourselves: From Mental Patient to Psychiatric Survivor

Monday, 31st March 2008 -
7.00 to 9.00 PM,
at Auditorium - Peterborough Downtown Public Library (345 Aylmer St. N.)

Free Food Not Bombs dinner meal will be served at 6:30 p.m. at the library.

All Welcome! Free Admission!

Light Food & Refreshments Served. Reception following the talk.

Pat Capponi is a leading advocate on mental health and poverty issues and author of several books. She overcame an abuse-ridden childhood and subsequent mental illness, as well as warehousing in a psychiatric boarding home, to become one of Canada’s leading spokespeople for improvement in the quality of life for those labelled mentally ill. As a psychiatric survivor, she has written Upstairs in the Crazy House and Beyond the Crazy House. Her own direct experience of poverty lead to cross Canada look at inner-city poverty, detailed in Dispatches from the Poverty Line and The War at Home: An Intimate Portrait of Canada's Poor. She has also written Bound by Duty: Walking the Beat with Canada's Cops. Pat Capponi has been very active in community groups, founding member of Gerstein Centre, the Supportive Housing Coalition and has won the Queen's Jubilee Medal for her community work and advocacy.


Sponsored by
Elizabeth Fry Society of Peterborough
Frost Centre for Canadian and Indigenous Studies
Peterborough Coalition Against Poverty
Peterborough-Kawartha Chapter of Council of Canadians
OPIRG-Peterborough
Trent University Canadian Studies, Politics, and Women Studies Departments
Trent Queer Collective
Trent Women's Centre
Women's Events Planning Committee