BC-Rap outreach activities involved healing arts workshops and a retreat in partnership with Project Quest's Arquette Cancer program and a community townhall and event at the Hollywood Theatre broadcast live by KBOO 90.7FM.
The Breast Cancer- Radio Arts Project began with outreach to the general community with free Healing Arts Workshops. The main focus was to provide arts healing work and training through the talents of experienced artists to women, children, and families, as well as informing the general public about the benefits of creative writing, visual art, and media arts in the healing of the individual
Workshops: all 10am - 1pm on Saturdays
February 8th
Visual Art Therapy with Ping Khaw and Melinda Maginnis
February 22nd
Poetry and Creative Writing with Leanne Grabel and Barbara Bernstein
March 1st
Creative Writing and Movement with Chisao Hata and Dmae Roberts
March 8th
Storytelling for Radio with Barbara Bernstein and Emily Young
March 22nd
Memory Boxes, Visual Art with Ping Khaw
LIFESTORIES ARTS WORKSHOPS
MediaRites presented a second round of healing arts workshops for the Breast Cancer Radio Arts Project offering creative workshops to Breast Cancer survivors and their families and loved ones to help them find expressive ways through art to tell their stories.
The workshops conducted by Lusijah Marx of Project Quest, Dmae Roberts and Ping Khaw of MediaRites.
Workshop Dates:
July 19th - Saturday - 10am-1pm
Lifelines charting with Lusijah Marx
August 2nd - Saturday - 10am-1pm
Writing Lifestories with Dmae Roberts
August 16th - Saturday - 10am-1pm
Life Collage with Ping Khaw
On September 27-28, BC-Rap had a weekend healing arts retreat at beautiful Camp Kiwanis in Mt. Hood....
Our retreat was a rousing success with 12 participants sharing their stories through creative writing and visual art. Project Quest offered alternative healing therapies during the reatreat with healers donating their services. Here are some of the comments:
It helped me to identify my own feelings and open my heart...
I attended the first series of workshops and was inspired by them all. The retreat was wonderful andhelped to see the strength within me.
It opened the flood gates for me. I will now be able to do the writing that I so desperately need to do...
It was helpful for me to be in the forest to explore art and writing and to remember the value of them. I need support to get started...
This experience helped me in letting go of past beliefs of - I can't - I'm not good at art. It worked to help me let go of other things I am hanging onto...
These workshops are part of a collaboration with Project Quest's Arquette Cancer Program, KBOO radio, the Media Project and MediaRites to develop community partnerships to share information, creative expression and education about the topic of Breast Cancer.
Listen to The Breast Cancer Monologues
A one-hour radio documentary produced by Dmae Roberts and the Breast Cancer Radio Arts Project distributed nationally for Women's History month 2004.
The Breast Cancer Monologues is a one-hour collage of women's stories intricately woven from interviews, readings and dramatizations about how breast cancer has affected the lives of women in America. and was distributed on the Stories1st.org banner to 200 public stations around the country.
CDs are be available for $10 plus shipping to the public at The MediaRites Gift Shop.
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