Out of the Madhouse

Event details

Description:: In conversation with authors Sandy Jeffs and Margaret Leggatt
Date:: Sunday, 26 September 2021
Time: 1:00PM — 2:00PM
Location:: Online via Yarra Plenty Regional Library.
Contact:: Cultural Heritage Coordinator
Phone:: 9217 2174
Cost:: Free
Registration: Register here

Highlights

Larundel Psychiatric Hospital was “the madhouse on the edge of town” at Bundoora until the 1990s.

Join Sandy Jeffs, a former inmate who became an advocate for her ‘mad’ comrades and is now a poet of distinction, along side Margaret Leggatt, sociologist, occupational therapist and activist for the friends and families of those with a mental health condition.

Their book recently won the Victorian Community History Awards 2020, oral history, and will be available for sale on the night.

Event details:

Tuesday 26 October, 1 - 2pm

Online webinar.