Urban Planner: July 13, 2009

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Photo taken during the 2008 Patient Built Wall Tour by Myrna Schacherl. Courtesy of Elizabeth Carvalho

HEALTH: It's the first day of Mad Pride Week—a week celebrating the work of "mad" people and furthering the understanding of psychiatric survivor/consumer/ex-patient movement—and they're kicking off the celebrations on a sombre note, with a tour of the patient-built wall guided by York University professor Geoffrey Reaume, followed by a memorial. Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (1001 Queen Street West), wall tour, 6 p.m.; memorial, 8:30 p.m. FREE.

WORDS: It's the last day of the Scream Literary Festival, and they're capping everything off with a solid lineup of poets and novelists reading from their "dead" books. Touted as Canada's largest outdoor reading, Margaret Christakos, Andrew Pyper, and Icelandic writer Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl reading with Paul Dutton are just some of the highlights to expect at today's main stage event. Dream Stage, High Park (1873 Bloor Street West), 7–11 p.m., pay-what-you-can ($10 suggested).

HEALTH: Yoga Meltdown wants you to join them for a morning yoga session at not-so-idyllic Yonge-Dundas Square. Since the actual Yoga Meltdown is happening on July 19 as part of the Festival of India, this "Morning Yoga Challenge!" is one of Yoga Meltdown's free pre-festival events and will be followed by "Express Yoga" (fifteen-minute yoga classes custom-made for busy Torontonians) in the afternoon. They're hoping to get around two hundred participants, so come stand amoung the skyscrapers, tourists, and obnoxious advertisements and get centred. Yonge-Dundas Square (2 Dundas Street East), Morning Yoga Challenge: 7 a.m.; Express Yoga: 12–5 p.m., FREE (register for Morning Yoga Challenge here).

MUSIC: Montreal electronic music DJ Misstress Barbara is celebrating the launch of her new CD, I'm No Human, with a performance at the Rivoli. This multi-talented DJ (who is also a trained pilot!) has been touring around the world for thirteen years, but this is her first full-length release as a songwriter. Some of the notable electronic artists she's worked aside include Carl Cox, Richie Hawtin, and John Digweed, but her most current pairing is with fellow Montreal musician Sam Roberts in her first single off of I'm No Human, "I'm Running." Rivoli (334 Queen Street West), 6–7 p.m., FREE (you can RSVP here).