On August 31st, we had the utmost pleasure having an all-star line up of wonderful health care members of all different specialties to come together and discuss being part of a team, including how patients and care partners can work together!
On our panel we had Ladybird Morgan, RN, MSW (Mettle Health, executive director and co-founder Humane Prison Hospice Project), Dr. Aaron Boster (Neurologist, MS expert, The Boster Center for Multiple Sclerosis), Dr. Pamela Munster (Oncologist, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center), and Karen Schanche, LCSW (psychotherapist).
You’ll hear open and honest dialogue, and great answers to questions from our audience.
Watch this amazing webinar here:
Special thanks to Myovant Sciences – Pfizer and Foundation Medicine for sponsoring this webinar.
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AnCan and The Marsh (well renown, long-established theater company with a large following in the Bay Area and venues in San Francisco and Oakland) collaborateevery 4th Wednesday of the month for Solo Arts Heal!
On August 25th, we had Shelby Hofer!
Shelby is an award-winning actress, writer and director, and the Co-director of Atlanta-based PushPush Arts (formerly PushPush Film & Theater) where she develops distinctive opportunities for artists to take risks, explore new ideas and collaborate. In addition to her noted stage and film work at PushPush, she has appeared on many stages locally, nationally, and internationally. In Atlanta, her many stage performances include seven productions at Horizon Theater, including the critically acclaimed solo comedy, Bad Dates by Theresa Rebeck. Her work also includes film, commercials, multimedia, teaching, writing, directing and stand up comedy. Her 2009-2011 performances of the solo show 101 Humiliating Stories garnered numerous awards including one of the Top 50 Shows of the Decade and a Best Actress award from Creative Loafing Atlanta in 2010.
She shared scenes from her one-woman show, High Risk, Baby! a comedy about the child within the mother, and Shelby’s personal voyage from infertility to motherhood, told from the perspective of both her 8-year-old and adult self. During the 75-minute autobiofictional ride, Lenora is on a mission, but her not-so-inner child is bursting with irreverent questions about DNA, ADD, quantum physics, boners & babies — where they come from, how they get here, and mostly, how she can get one. With hilarious and maddening advice from her sex-ed teacher, Elvis, Mr. Rogers, the mysterious Dr. Mark, and a bunch of ill-mannered “dolls,” Lenora and her Honey board a train for a wild adventure that leads to some unexpected destinations.
Watch here:
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AnCan and The Marsh (well renown, long-established theater company with a large following in the Bay Area and venues in San Francisco and Oakland) collaborateevery 4th Wednesday of the month for Solo Arts Heal!
On July 28th, we had the pleasure of having Michael Bihovsky!
Michael shared his award-winning film and musical theater works, ranging from Les Mis parodies to full musicals about neuroplasticity to his brand new music video, Paperweight, which documents the COVID-19 pandemic experience through the lens of disability. Through this wide range of creations, Michael demonstrated how he has created music and art whose poignancy (and comedy) shines through not merely despite his struggles with the connective tissue disorder Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, but because of those struggles.
Watch this incredible performance here:
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On July 22nd, we had so much fun once again with our very own Hannah Garrison (Artist, MS activist, and moderator for our MS virtual support group) lead our appropriately titled…”Art With Hannah Garrison“! It has a Saturday Night Live ring to it, don’t you think? She was requested to teach something relaxing and summer-y, and did she deliver!
We created an absolutely beautiful dusk beach setting, that is begging for a pineapple drink with a little umbrella in your hand. Last time we had an event to celebrate MS Awareness Month, but this time all were welcome. We saw members from our Blood Cancers, Prostate Cancer, Thyroid Cancer, MS Group, and more!
I promise this is SO easy and relaxing, so grab some supplies and have an hour of creative relaxation.
Supplies:
Acrylic paint or watercolor paint. (It will be watered down, so it doesn’t matter!) Colors – blue or aqua / dark blue / orange/ pink / purple. (colored pencils were also successfully used in this art project!)
Paint brush – round or flat.
Black crayon, but any dark color will be ok!
Water
Napkins
If you have any suggestions, or would like your art featured in the AnCan Art Gallery, please email me at alexa (at) ancan.org!
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