Breast Fest is over for another year! It was an outstanding weekend. A few highlights:
Packed opening night – incredible energy in the room, the films were truly inspiring. Rethink’s film debut About Her was absolutely embraced by the audience. All five of the beautiful women we featured in the doc were at Opening Night with friends and family. Sooooooo much love in the room!! Heart of the Sea….if you weren’t at Breast Fest, I highly, highly recommend you try to get your hands on a copy of this film so you too can be inspired by Rell Sunn. What a woman!!
Live Laugh Lunch – Our special luncheon for young women living with breast cancer in a word, “rocked”!! Mostly thanks to our guest performer Jonna Tomases. The room was literally roaring with laughter as she delivered her Girl Manifesto.
Stage IV and our panel on metastatic breast cancer – a really tough one but so appreciated by those that came out. Voices from the metastatic community need to be heard. We learned so much. Thanks to those that shared.
Closing night – this year’s Amazing Grace award went to a very creative and thought provoking film called Flat. We closed the night out with Jonna’s Body, Please Hold. It was so well received we are discussing special screenings of it in Vancouver and Calgary! Jonna Tamases is our new hero!
The rotunda outside our theatre – the conversations, hugs and speechless looks of appreciation from our guests as they debriefed outside the theatre will be long remembered.
We were touched by all the turnout and by the positive feedback. If you have a moment, check out Lisa Rendall’s reaction to Breast Fest on her blog by clicking here. Also, please read a great article from My Town Crier, featuring Karyn Stowe’s personal story and her involvement with the documentary, About Her, by clicking here.
This week, we are riding the wave of positive energy that is following the festival. Please get in touch if you have ideas or want to get involved and help us grow it. We’d love your help!
Best, MJ
Packed opening night – incredible energy in the room, the films were truly inspiring. Rethink’s film debut About Her was absolutely embraced by the audience. All five of the beautiful women we featured in the doc were at Opening Night with friends and family. Sooooooo much love in the room!! Heart of the Sea….if you weren’t at Breast Fest, I highly, highly recommend you try to get your hands on a copy of this film so you too can be inspired by Rell Sunn. What a woman!!
Live Laugh Lunch – Our special luncheon for young women living with breast cancer in a word, “rocked”!! Mostly thanks to our guest performer Jonna Tomases. The room was literally roaring with laughter as she delivered her Girl Manifesto.
Stage IV and our panel on metastatic breast cancer – a really tough one but so appreciated by those that came out. Voices from the metastatic community need to be heard. We learned so much. Thanks to those that shared.
Closing night – this year’s Amazing Grace award went to a very creative and thought provoking film called Flat. We closed the night out with Jonna’s Body, Please Hold. It was so well received we are discussing special screenings of it in Vancouver and Calgary! Jonna Tamases is our new hero!
The rotunda outside our theatre – the conversations, hugs and speechless looks of appreciation from our guests as they debriefed outside the theatre will be long remembered.
We were touched by all the turnout and by the positive feedback. If you have a moment, check out Lisa Rendall’s reaction to Breast Fest on her blog by clicking here. Also, please read a great article from My Town Crier, featuring Karyn Stowe’s personal story and her involvement with the documentary, About Her, by clicking here.
This week, we are riding the wave of positive energy that is following the festival. Please get in touch if you have ideas or want to get involved and help us grow it. We’d love your help!
Best, MJ
Photo by Sylvia Soo
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