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Press Release
26 February 2008
Losing It Again: Mad Chicks
Lurking behind tabloid interest in the mental health crises of artists like Britney Spears, Heath
Ledger and Amy Whitehouse is a vast unease around mental ill-health. The everyday
stigmatisation of the Mad affects everyone.
Mad Chicks fight this stigma by celebrating the creativity and eloquence of Mad women.
Refugees and escapees of the Prozac Nation are converging at Corsica Studios on Sunday
March 9th 2008 to host a wild night of art, music, video and performance.
In celebration of International Women’s Day, Losing It features female artists of all genres
including Ana da Silva, founding member of the supremely influential feminist post-punk band
The Raincoats; renowned improvisational vocalists Maggie Nicols and Francine Luce; and
Edinburgh Festival stunner Liz Bentley. The night will be MCed by award-winning Mad writer
Dolly Sen (See complete line up following event details below)
Building on the success of Mad Chicks’ & Mad Pride’s strange litany of creative and political
events, Losing It celebrates cultural and psychological diversity and encourages selfempowerment
for Mad women, who belong to one of the most marginalised groups in society.
All are welcome!
Losing It Event Details
Date: Sunday March 9th 2008
Venue: Corsica Studios, Unit 5, Elephant Road, London SE17 1LB
Travel: Elephant & Castle Tube, Rail & Buses
Time: 7pm to midnight
Price: £5, £2 Concessions
Contact:  madchickslosingit@gmail.com
Web: www.mad-chicks.org.uk & www.myspace.com/madchickslosingit
Losing It Line Up March 9th 2008
• Ana da Silva - www.myspace.com/anadasilva
• Chanje Kunda - www.myspace.com/chanjekunda
• Melanie Clifford - www.artsadmin.co.uk
• Ceri Buck - www.openbracket.org.uk
• Francine Luce - www.francineluce.com
• Maggie Nicols - www.maggienicols.com
• Rachel Anderson - www.artangel.org.uk
• Rai Studley - www.myspace.com/raistudleymusic
• Liz Bentley - www.myspace.com/lizbentleyperformer
• Walki’s Monster - www.myspace.com/walkismonster
• Drunk Granny - www.myspace.com/drunkgranny
• Corey Orbison - www.myspace.com/coreyorbison
• Stephanie Something - www.myspace.com/stephaniesomething
• Dolly Sen - www.dollysen.com
For more information & images for Losing It, Mad Chicks & Mad Pride contact:
 madchickslosingit@gmail.com
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About Mad Chicks
Mad Chicks is about women psychiatric patients and survivors of the psychiatric system. The
movement developed from within Mad Pride, a user-led mental health civil rights movement,
committed to ending discrimination against psychiatric patients, challenging misinformation in
relation to mental health and celebrating Mad culture.
Mad Chicks believes that a women-focused organisation and campaign can highlight issues
with particular female resonance, including abuse and sexism in the NHS, mixed wards,
childcare, assertiveness and rights - and provide a more conducive space for women to discuss
their experience of services.
They draw on the considerable creativity and activism already existing within Mad Pride, and
amongst its contacts and supporters, in order to show what extraordinary things Mad women
have done and are able to do in supportive environments and elsewhere.
About International Women’s Week in Southwark
Losing It is part of Southwark’s International Women’s Week. More than twenty events are
taking place across the borough in celebration of the significant role that women have played,
and continue to play, in shaping history.
For more information on other events taking place between March 1 - 10 2008,
contact: Lis Ssenjovu:  elisabeth.ssenjovu@southwark.gov.uk
 http://www.southwark.gov.uk/DiscoverSouthwark/EventsSection/WomensWeek