Bay Area Icarus was revived last summer, and we are officially full of surging, irreverent life.   We held our first event on Valentine's Day--Mad Love.  We had an open mic, a skilled MC, a cabaret of musicians and poets, and the evening skyrocketed to a close with the Brass Liberation Orchestra.

If you were there, you know.  If not, read on!  Almost as good. :)

I am sitting near the lake, the time you see my beauty ,it is too late. This is the only words that I can say .

The Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs, published by The Icarus Project and Freedom Center, is now available in German - thanks to the dedicated volunteer translation work of Inez Kochius.

The Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs, published by The Icarus Project and Freedom Center, is now available in spanish - thanks to the dedicated translation work of Agustina Vidal from Buenos Aires Argentina.

Discontinuación del Uso de Drogas Psiquiátricas: Una Guía Basada en la
Reducción del Daño, publicado por The Icarus Project y Freedom Center, ha sido traducida al castellano por Agustina Vidal desde Buenos Aires Argentina, miembro de la Asamblea permanente de usuarios del sistema de salud mental.

You can download the guide free online. Puedes decargarla de forma gratuita.

Go to the Resources section to download and read the Guide in spanish.

Vísite la sección de Recursos para bajar y leer la Guía.

You can now download a free .pdf format version of the wildly successful Icarus zine "Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness: A Reader of Bipolar Worlds," edited by Ashley and Sascha. Check it out in our Resources section, and feel free to spread it around and link to it on other sites:

http://theicarusproject.net/publications/navigating-the-space-reader