Swim a Mile for Women with Cancer
Join us for the 9th Annual Swim a Mile for Women With
Cancer
Saturday and Sunday, October 2-3, 2004
Mills College, Oakland
For more information call 601.4040 x 180 or email swim@wcrc.org.
Plan on swimming with us. Information, details and answers
to questions about Swim a Mile -- as well as the complete
registration process -- can be found online at www.wcrc.org.
You can pledge
to a specific swimmer online too, as long as the swimmer
is already registered. We have Swim a Mile posters and
brochures all over the Bay Area. We want to express our
great appreciation to Andronico’s Markets, Men’s
Wearhouse, Mills College, Tri-Valley/East Bay Radiation
Oncology Centers, Speedo, East Bay Express and the
San Francisco Chronicle for their great
sponsorship of our Swim A Mile.
Not a swimmer? Still interested? Really great volunteers
are one of the secrets of our Swim a Mile! It isn’t
too early to sign up as a volunteer and be in the middle
of all the fun this year. Call Sarah at 510/601-4040 x
105 and she will give you all the details.
Hmmm. Food! All those swimmers get hungry and we have
a tradition at Swim a Mile of making sure everyone’s
energy stays high. The economy has been tough on many
of our usual food donors for this event, so we must cast
our net ever wider this year. Do you own or manage a small
store, service business or restaurant? We are still looking
for donated goods, services (massages, body work, facials,
haircuts, gift certificates) and food (bagels, juice,
sandwiches, salads, yogurt, cookies, smoothies, fruit,
veggies, bottled water, etc) to give to swimmers as raffle
prizes and to help them keep their energy up the day of
the event. We can help with marketing your business to
more than 500 people who come and help us that weekend.
We strongly encourage our swimmers and volunteers to support
our supporters—together we really do make a difference.
Please call Ali at 510/527-1918 if you can help!
Booths Available at Swim a Mile
For the first time ever we are opening our Swim a Mile
weekend to outside organizations and businesses who would
like the chance to tell your story or present your goods/services
to those who will be participating at the SaM. The fee
for a booth is $75 which includes protection from the
sun, table and chairs. You must staff the booth both days
from 10 am - 5pm (the entire time of the Swim a Mile.)
For details call Ali at 510/527-1918.
WCRC Art Gallery: Blossoming
Please join us at the WCRC Gallery for the opening of “Blossoming,”
the floral works of three local women artists. The exhibit
features the dynamic close-up photographs of Jane Magid,
who captures nature using digital photography and film.
The show also features photographer Chaya Spector, who has
traveled to Costa Rica, Trinidad and the Everglades to capture
images of nature. The third artist in the show is Karen
Mills who paints on single shuan rice paper with watercolor
and Chinese ink.
A reception with the artists will be on Friday, September
10, 6-8 PM. The show runs through October 14, 2004.
The WCRC Gallery is located at 5741 Telegraph Avenue in
Oakland. The gallery is wheelchair accessible.
There is no charge for the show or the reception.
Regular gallery hours Monday – Friday from 9am –
5 pm.
A preview of the show is available at http://www.wcrc.org/gallery.htm.
A Benefit Yoga Workshop
In Memory of Katie Allen (1952-2002)
Led by Bonnie Maeda and Gay White
For the Women’s Cancer Resource Center
Saturday, October 9, 2004, 2:00 - 5:00 PM
Suggested Donation $20-40
This Benefit Yoga Workshop will include gentle yoga asanas,
breathing awareness and relaxing restorative poses. The
workshop is open to everyone and no previous yoga experience
is necessary.
Bonnie Maeda, R.N., graduated from The Yoga Room’s
Advanced Studies Program in 2002 and currently teaches Restorative
Yoga at TYR. She works with students with health issues,
as well as those wanting to maintain good overall health.
Gay White is a graduate of TYR’s Advanced Studies
Program and is now a member of the faculty. She teaches
Yoga Movement, poses practiced in a flowing sequence, as
well as ongoing yoga classes of all levels. Gay is the founder
and creative director of the Yoga Garden Dancers.
To register please send a check payable to “Women’s
Cancer Resource Center” with your name, address and
phone number/email address to The Yoga Room 2640 College
Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94704 or phone 510-848-0993.
Volunteer Orientation
The next Volunteer Orientation will be held on Monday, September
13, from 6:00 - 8:00 pm. Come and learn about the wonderful
volunteer opportunities that are currently available —
Swim-A-Mile, speaking engagements, community tabling events,
library research and so much more. If you cannot come to
the Center on Monday, please call our Volunteer Associate,
Sarah Kurhajetz, to schedule a time to come in and speak
with her about the volunteer opportunities available. She
can be reached at 510.601.4040 x 105. If you are Spanish/English
bi-lingual we would love to talk with you about the really
wonderful clients who need our services in Spanish.
Volunteer Opportunities
Volunteering with WCRC is a really fun thing to do! You
have the opportunity to be a part of a community, health
or volunteer fair, find out about the great work being done
at other organizations and also there is often good music,
beautiful art and delicious food. Please contact me if you
would like to sign up for one of these events.
The shifts will probably be for about 3 or 4 hours each
and we try to have 2 people per shift. One person stops
by the center to pick up the materials prior to the event
and another person returns the materials sometime the following
week. Call Sarah at 510.601.4040 x 105.
Sunday, September 12
Solano Avenue Stroll
1451 Solano Ave
8 am – 6 pm
Looks like a fun event – lots of food, music and
art!
Sunday, September 19
How Berkeley Can You Be?(Extra Brownie points for volunteers
who wear their tie-dye and Birkenstocks!
Martin Luther King Park (Intersection of Center St and
MLK Jr Dr)
9 am – 5 pm
For the creative ones out there – They request that
our booth be decorated according to the theme, “How
Berkeley Can You Be?” What is your idea? Email Sarah
with your best insight at sarah@wcrc.org. The best idea
gets a rather un-Berkeley-like but very nice WCRC embroidered
polo shirt.
Sunday, September 26
Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Race for the Cure
Golden Gate Park
6 am – 12 pm
This one is for all the morning people out there! I know
this is early, but I thought I would ask just in case
you really wanted something to do at 6 am on a Sunday
morning! Bagels and coffee will be the gift of the Center
that morning!
Fourth annual Calendar of African American Women speak
about breast cancer
WCRC is proud to be helping the African American Breast
Cancer Task Group market its fourth production of a 24-month
calendar called “Reflections Beyond Surviving” of
beautiful women who are “celebrating life” after
a breast cancer diagnosis. Filled with inspiring stories and
exquisite photographs of breast cancer survivors, it is a
wonderful gift to the women in your life. We have copies here
at the Center or you may order yours by writing to mary@wcrc.org.
It is indeed a beautiful thing.
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month
It is a great time to be thinking about what we as women
can do to protect ourselves from cancer. Have you had a
mammogram? In the past year? Your annual gynecological exam?
Does your teen think smoking makes her look cool? We at
WCRC have lots of in-house expertise and are prepared to
come out and talk with your group, book club, hiking club,
bowling team – any gathering of women to share the
good news about what each of us can do to protect ourselves
from cancer and how to get the best possible care if you
should have a diagnosis. Please let’s all work to raise
awareness this fall not just about breast cancer, but all
the cancers for which women are at risk. Call Dolores and
she will set it up: 501.601.4040 x 112.
WCRC Support Groups
If you or a loved one is struggling with cancer, we
encourage you to participate in a support
group here at WCRC. If you are interested in a support
group that isn’t listed, please call Dolores at 510.420.7900
x112.
Healing Journeys workshop on intimacy, sexuality and
cancer
Monday, September 13
Hyatt Regency, Sacramento
9 am to 12:30 pm
$75.00
This workshop is for women only and is a great opportunity
to exchange information and learn together in a small group.
Topics will include physical, emotional and spiritual distancing
as a result of a cancer diagnosis and treatment, physiologic
effect of treatment that impacts sexual function, and strategies
to help survivors maintain or re-create intimacy in their
lives. You can get further information at
http://www.healingjourneys.org/pages/sacto04/pc_sac04.html
or register by calling (916) 930-9040 or (800) 423-9882.
Meet the Expert on Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma: New
Insights and Treatments
With David Pfister, M.D., Hematologist Oncologist
Sat. Sept. 18, 2004, 9-11 AM
Claremont Resort & Spa
41 Tunnel Rd. Berkeley, Rm Napa 2-3
Program and parking are free
Includes continental breakfast
To register please contact Shirley (415)625-1105
mcgraths@ca-sf.leukemia-lymphoma.org
Frankly Speaking About Lymphoma: Special Focus on Non-Hodgkin’s
Lymphoma
With Brad Kewis M.D., Hematologist Oncologist
October 12, 2004, 6 – 8 PM
The Wellness Community
3276 McNutt Avenue, Walnut Creek
Free
Light refreshments served
Free booklet, Frankly Speaking About Lymphoma
To register please call 925-933-0107
A new workshop series on menopausal transition
*JOYFUL BODY*
Movement/Meditation/Menopause
Session One: Balance
Women of color, lesbians and friends access the energetic
potential of this new phase of your life. Whether you are
facing menopause, feeling it, or floundering through its
after-effects, you can access your body’s own wisdom
to find balance. Purple Moon Dance Project’s Artistic
Director Jill Togawa, an experienced dancer/choreographer
and certified teacher of the Alexander Technique, combines
gentle body movement, breath-work, meditation and yoga grounded
in a safe, sensitive and culturally-diverse perspective.
Beginning with an exploration of natural balance, other
five-week sessions in the ongoing series will explore such
qualities of the menopausal transition as change and flexibility,
loss and liberation, opportunity and potential, $25 covers
the five-class session; sliding scale is available; registration
is limited. Class meets from 5:30 to 7pm, Tuesdays –
August 24th and 31st, September 14th, 21st and 28th, at
the PMDP Studio, 465 10th Street, #302, SF. For registration/information,
please call 415.552.1105.
