Current Events
Mad Pride 2010 is coming!
This year The City of Toronto will proclaim
Mad Pride Week from July 12th to July 18th
Celebrations will include:
*The Historic Patient Built Wall Tour on
July 14th
*Theatre and Variety presentations on July
16th
*The fourth annual Mad Pride Bed Push
Parade and award ceremony on July 17th
Bobbi Nahwegahbow was an active member of Psychiatric Survivor, Mad Pride, Women’s and Native rights communities in the city of Toronto. Psychiatric Survivor Archives Toronto, The Lakeshore Asylum Cemetery Project, Parkdale Activity Recreation Centre, The Native Centre, The Friendly Spike Theatre Band, St. Francis Table, Toronto Rape Crisis Center, are but a few of the organizations which benefited from this energetic, passionate and righteous human being who was dedicated to equality rights for everyone.
Although Bobbi Nahwegahbow passed on November 4th, 2007 her tenacious example will always be remembered by the people she worked with.
In memory of Bobbi Nahwegahbow, The Mad Pride Organizing Committee has established a $250.00 award in her name, to be presented during Mad Pride Toronto celebrations in July 2010.
The committee requests suggestions from the community in the spirit of who best exemplifies the work which Bobbi so actively nourished. These nominations should be made in the form of a simple statement not more than one page in length, which highlights the person or group’s contributions to our community. Please send to either friendlyspike@primus.ca or Friendly Spike Theatre Band, #210, 2466 Dundas Street West, Toronto M6P 1W9
Suggestions will be reviewed and decided on by the Mad Pride Organizing Committee.
Deadline April 30th 2010
The
Friendly
Spike Theatre Band, a grass roots Toronto
organization
dedicated to encouraging creative expression from the marginalized in
society, will turn TWENTY YEARS OLD on October 1st 2009, as it was this
day in 1989 when the ‘little company with a big heart’ Toronto Star
November 1989, opened as a Canadian Corporation and a registered
charity.
This is an amazing story of survival. Although maintaining a grass
roots organization in this fractured world can seem an impossible task,
FSTB continues to grow. But it can’t without YOU…
So please join us in celebration of:
The Friendly Spike Theatre Band
On Friday October 2nd, 2009
At 6PM to 9PM
At May Robinson Auditorium
20 West Lodge Ave.
Toronto, Ontario
(directions; travel to Lansdowne Ave and Queen Street West. West Lodge
Ave is one block east of Lansdowne, one block north of Queen. There is
only on street parking) See old friends and make new ones. There will
be a pot luck supper and a performance of Moving To My Own Beat, FSTB’s
latest play. Also, we are hoping cast members from the many of FSTB’s
great works attend and share impromptu performances.
For more information contact; 416
516 4740 or friendlyspike@primus.ca
To register food contributions contact; Shirley.Gillett@utoronto.ca
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