ALT Madzines are a means of challenging and contesting mainstream understandings about mental health.  This session will provide a brief introduction to the Madzines research project and our existing collection of Madzines.  The collection includes perzines (personal zines) and collective zines and touches on a wide range of topics relating to experiences of madness and distress.  We'll bring along zine making materials, and there will then be an opportunity to create Madzines - for contributing, if wished, to the Madzines 'takeover' of the Morecambe and Lancaster zine library.  That will be launched on Saturday 9 November(same venue) from 2-4.30pm, in association with 'Being Human: the National Festival of the Humanities'.  Everybody welcome to either or both events. CCrAMHP is a discussion group based in Lancaster and this will also be an opportunity to find out more about the group and about Asylum magazine.