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Stigma awareness, art to travel

June 9th, 2011 | Posted by pfmarchive in uncategorized

Nanaimo artist and activist Wallace Malay will present about art, mental illness, and stigma at New York conference

A conference for organizing resistance against psychiatry will be held June 20-21, 2011 at the City University of New York. PsychOUT provides a forum for psychiatric survivors, mad people, activists, radical professionals, artists, scholars and students from around the world to share experiences of organizing against psychiatry. Collective resistance against the theories and interventions of institutional psychiatry has intensified over recent years.

Nanaimo artist and activist Wallace Malay has been invited to the PsychOUT conference to present about art, mental illness, and stigma. He also plans to share his impressions of the mental health services offered on Vancouver Island and in the province of B.C.

We speak with Wallace Malay.

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Image: Wallace Malay and his painting, “Stigma”, which will accompany him to New York.

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