ANNOUNCEMENT
Artfully-made Bras by Barbara Malek, Lyn Walfish, and Beth Licari (clockwise from top).
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. The New England Quilt Museum in Lowell, Massachusetts, will feature an exhibit of bras and quilts made by, for, or in memory of women with breast cancer. Both the bras and the quilts were designed and created by NEQM members, as well as the Nimble Thimbles Quilt Guild, Reading, MA, and women who live in the greater Lowell area. The bras and quilts, both poignant and whimsical, will be on display throughout the month of October at the museum.
As part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the museum will host an awareness event on October 1, 2009, in conjunction with the display’s opening. On hand will be Meg Lemire, Director of Oncology Social Work and Community Outreach, Lowell General Hospital, who will deliver a lecture that highlights the importance of breast cancer screening and the new treatments available. Hospital staff will accompany her.
The Museum’s Outreach Manager, Rhonda Galpern, coordinated the exhibition and lecture as a means to pay tribute to members of the museum and quilting community who are or have battled the disease, to promote awareness, and to offer cancer survivors a comforting and creative means of expressing their personal experiences.
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Many thanks to the New England Quilt Museum for sending this important announcement. There is perhaps no woman living who does not know another woman or relative who has had breast cancer or who has had it herself, or even the threat of it, via discovery of a lump, albeit benign. New strides are being made in the detection and treatment of breast cancer. While scientists strive to find answers and ways to prevent this disease, as women we all have to come to terms with it, directly or indirectly. Personally, I am happy to see many women plying their needles in support of awareness. ~ Patricia Cummings ~
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