The Icarus Project at Quimby’s!

Sunday, October 28th, 3:00 PM

This will be a release party, reading and community discussion for the Icarus Project’s debut publication Harm Reduction Guide To Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs, the first in a series of radical community mental health & popular education materials. The Icarus Project and Freedom Center’s 40-page guide gathers the best information we’ve come across and the most valuable lessons we’ve learned about reducing and coming off psychiatric medication. Includes info on mood stabilizers, anti-psychotics, anti-depressants, anti-anxiety drugs, risks, benefits, wellness tools, withdrawal, detailed Resource section, information for people staying on their medications, and much more. Written by Will Hall, with a 14-member health professional Advisory Board providing research assistance and 24 other collaborators involved in developing and editing. The guide has photographs and art throughout, and a beautiful original cover painting by Ashley McNamara. Download a .pdf to read or a ‘zine version to print and fold into a booklet (instructions included). Or low-cost published copies will be available at the event.

The Performers:
Will Hall – is co-founder of Freedom Center in MA in addition to being a founding collective member of The Icarus Project. His writing, speaking and facilitator skills have made him a guiding light in the international movement for human rights in mental health.  He is the coordinator & main author in a community collaborative debut of Icarus pop ed materials called: Harm Reduction Guide To Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs

Bonfire Madigan Shive – is a new music cellist, vocalist, avant-pop composer, community organizer, and touring musician. She released two albums on the Kill Rock Stars label and has collaborated on stage or in studio with artists as diverse and influential as Elliott Smith, Joan Jeanrenaud (Kronos Quartet), Cat Power, and Fugazi. Bonfire Madigan’s work has been stirring the  DIY art/activist movements from Riot Grrrl to Queercore to Chamber Punk (a genre she is credited with creating) and beyond. Her forthcoming studio album is scheduled  for release in 2008. She is a founding collective member of The Icarus Project,

Sascha Altman Dubrul – is a writer, farmer, and visionary mad man. his 2002 article for the SF Bay Guardian entitled Bipolar World was the seed that launched the Icarus Project.  The Icarus Reader and Road Map of Bipolar Worlds which he co-authored as the project’s debut publication is now in it’s 6th printing.
http://theicarusproject.net/

Punk Houses Event at Quimby’s!

Monday, October 22nd, 7:00 PM
FREE
Join Quimby’s in welcoming Abby Banks author of Punk Houses: Interiors in Anarchy, A 300 Page photo-documentary on American punk houses, edited by Thurston Moore.  Since this is Abby’s first book and the publisher is not sending her on book tour.  She decided to do it herself, with the help of some friends.

Not content for a typical reading. Abby and friends will screen a movie/slide show, talk about the book, and have live music by two acoustic acts “Johnny Hobo & the Freight Trains” and “Jerk Off Jack Off Frig Face”

Abby Banks is a photographer/visual artist.  She has contributed to Slug & Lettuce, and is a graduate of Goddard College, VT

Timothy Findlen is a musician & writer and has contributed to Bee’s Knee’s, several self released CDs, including Jerk Off Jack Off Frig Face (country), and a collaboration with Sunburned Hand of The Man.

Pat The Bunny, is a musician who fronts/is Johnny Hobo & The Freight Trains, and Wingnut Dishwasher’s Union.

The “punk house” may come in any number of forms. The most common type is often where a large group of like-minded punks cram into a house usually intended to accommodate two or three people, resulting in low rent and, thus, extended hours of leisure for the residents to pursue their true interests.

Punk House features anarchist warehouses, feminist collectives, tree houses, workshops, artists’ studios, self-sufficient farms, hobo squats, community centers, basement bike shops, speakeasies, and all varieties of communal living spaces. In over 300 images of fifty houses in twenty-five cities in the US, photographer Abby Banks finds the already weathered face of a seventeen-year-old runaway; the soft hands of a vinyl junkie (record collector); the mohawked show-goer; the dirty dishes in the sink; silk screened posters on the wall; and many other revealing glimpses of these anarchist interiors.