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!
Brooklyn-born, Los Angeles-raised rapper/producer Brian RiGHtSiDE’ Smith was diagnosed while in college with metastatic testicular cancer – and later, a reoccurrence of cancer in the brain, which left him with paralysis on his left side – hence the “right side” moniker.
In addition to performing original music, Brian discussed overcoming various health challenges and substance abuse, and his work supporting teens and young adults with cancer by sharing healthy and creative ways to process their emotions.
Watch this inspiring performance here:
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On July 21st, we had so much fun once again with our very own Hannah Garrison (Artist, MS activist, and moderator for our MS virtual support group). Hannah taught us how to create summer sunset backgrounds with acrylic paint, blending, different types of clouds, stars, and mountains. You could create 100’s of art pieces that all look different from this class with all the options there are. See what our community members created with this project in the AnCan Art Gallery.
What you will need:
Canvas or paper, rectangular is best.
Acrylic Paint (colors we used: blue, purple, orange, yellow, pink, and white. But feel free to use what you have, or make your own color palette!)
Toothbrush (it will make sense, I promise. You can go green and use an old tooth brush, as long as there is no fresh toothpaste on the brush)
Paintbrush
Water
Napkins – and lots of them
Something to protect your work space – newspaper, trash bag, etc.
Watch this here:
Funding for this project was provided by the HealtheVoices Impact Fund at the Community Foundation of New Jersey, which was funded by a contribution from Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Would you like your art featured in the AnCan Art Gallery? please email me at alexa (at) ancan.org!
To SIGN UP for any of our AnCan Virtual Support groups, visit our Contact Us page.
Registration is officially open!! We’re so so excited to announce our SECOND class in the Summer of Art Series!
Funding for this project was provided by the Health e Voices Impact Fund at the Community Foundation of New Jersey, which was funded by a contribution from Jansen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
No painting experience? No worries! Your instructor, Hannah Garrison, has had over 7 years of teaching experience in the arts. This painting is one she’s especially excited about because we’ll be using both a paintbrush AND a toothbrush! It’s weird and we love it.
If you already registered on the priority waitlist for June’s class, then no need to register again! We already have you on the list for this class!
Register before July 10th to receive your free art supplies in time!
There will be plenty of time to ask questions and admire everyone else’s work! Hannah is always ready to answer questions about how you can make it your own. Think you might want more or less of a certain color in your painting? There’s always a solution!
Sessions are recorded and available on our Blog and YouTube Channel. And if you don’t want to be discovered, it’s fine to remain anonymous or even shut off your camera.
In case you didn’t make it in time for registration, Here are two things you can do:
Fill out THIS FORM to register for the waitlist for August’s class. If you couldn’t register for July’s class, you’ll get priority for this one
You can still join us for July’s class with your own supplies! Email Hannah@ancan.org for the link
You’ll need:
One soft adult toothbrush (one that you’ll never use for anything other than painting)
Size 6 or 8 round paint brush
canvas size 9in x 12in
Acrylic paint colors: white / orange / bright yellow / purple / pink / blue
water/ lots of napkins
extra papers / butcher paper / plastic bags to cover your work station. Protect your surface from paint if needed!
All paint manufacturers have different names for their own colors, so choose the colors you LOVE!
Check out our AnCan Gallery HERE to see some amazing artwork from June’s class!! You can even watch the recording for June’s “Markers and Sunflowers” class
Email Hannah@ancan.org or Alexa@ancan.org for questions 🙂 Hope to see you there!
All AnCan’s groups are free and drop-in … join us in person sometime! You can find out more about our 12 monthly prostate cancer meetings at https://ancan.org/prostate-cancer/
Editor’s Pick: AnCan recomnmends a QB GU med onc to two gents (rd)
Topics Discussed
Newbie neds to find a QB GU med onc; finding ways to save on abi; waiting to finish up radionuclide trial; Ben’s started a blog; back in biz with Pluvicto; Orgovyx Ambassador Frank has good outcome; Hawaii gent needs a GU med onc QB; Keytruda is next treatment; chemo brings results for rare type of PCa; consider Provenge before chemo
Chat Log
AnCan – rick (to Everyone): 3:18 PM: EMBr Discount for AnCan’rs …. ‘ANCAN50
Mike Yancey (to Everyone): 3:22 PM: QuickRx at 347-691-3494 for Abiraterone 1000mg for a month
Pat Martin (to Everyone): 3:24 PM: I use Expess Scripts subsid by the name of Accredo. I pay 6.60 per month. Benefit through Carpenter union
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George Rovder Arlington VA (to Organizer(s) Only): 3:25 PM: GenitoUrinary Medical Oncologist
George Rovder Arlington VA (to Everyone): 3:25 PM: Search GoodRX for discount up to 98% in your area. https://www.goodrx.com/zytiga
George Rovder Arlington VA (to Everyone): 3:59 PM: Thank you Ben.
AnCan – rick (to Everyone): 3:59 PM: Great idea …. thanks Ben
John Antonucci (to Everyone): 4:03 PM: Oh that looks good Ben thanks. pictures and all.
George Rovder Arlington VA (to Everyone): 4:16 PM: Congratulations Frank.
Bob McHugh (Private): 4:37 PM: Dr. Oh orders T level EVERY time he orders PSA. 3 month intervals.
Len Sierra (to Everyone): 4:45 PM: PSA max of 4.0 V. rare form of PCa identified by Epstein as high grade foamy gland prostatic adenocarcinoma!! Gl undeterminable but =/greater than 7 per Dr. Epstein. Has only seen 21 cases. Lung spots seen.
Pat Martin (to Everyone): 4:47 PM: That should be SOC….can’t tell you why I slipped up on being INSISTENT on getting it checked. Some of the trials showed Abbie effective for 5 yrs. I got a couple more years, so we knew it was time to check T.
Ben Nathanson (to Organizer(s) Only): 4:49 PM: If I recall right, foamy gland is itself not a bad diagnosis and not too uncommon mixed with acinar. I think what surprised Epstein is not the foamy but that it’s a high-grade foamy
Julian Morales – Houston (to Everyone): 4:51 PM: Have another meeting at 7pm CT. Talk to you all next week!
Pat Martin (to Everyone): 4:59 PM: See ya all next week…Thanks to all!!
AnCan – rick (to Everyone): 5:00 PM: MPCP https://mpcproject.org/ MPCP = metastatic prostate cancer project
On June 29th we hosted a webinar that we know you’ll love to share! Titled “Genetic and Genomic Testing The How’s, Why’s and Where’s“, you’ll get a crash course on everything genetic and genomic testing related.
Summer of Art – Dreamy Summer Sky
