Photo post: Sunset Cruise at CAPO

Chasing Rainbows recently sponsored a performance by Michael Booth Palmer on a Sunset Cruise held during CAPO’s annual conference, which took place here in Vancouver this year. A good time was had by all! Here are some photos:

Photo by Bejoy Thomas

Sound Check

A full house! (or, boat…?)

Photo by Bejoy Thomas

Michael Booth Palmer and Sarah Sample

Michael, Pat and friend

Michael with some new fans: Martina Quinn, Bernie Dunlop, Joan Dunlop, Liz Cole, Audrey Friedman, Pat Brown (and possibly others whose names we neglected to record?).

Photo by Bejoy Thomas

March09 – A fantastic Rainbow Month

Wow!  What a fantastic month March 09 has been for Chasing Rainbows. Monday, March 2, I was interviewed on live webradio by Matthew Zachery (of I’mTooYoungForThis.org) for “The Stupid Cancer Show” broadcasting out of New York.  Got some great feedback and some new website links supporting young adults living with cancer.  I will get Melanie to  post them on our “Chasing Rainbows” website. [Ed. note: they are also on the blogroll to your right…scroll down to see lots of useful links!]

Next:  Our March 5th “Chasing Rainbows Screening and Discussion” presentation at the Dunbar Community Centre here in Vancouver had a full house.  We kept having to add more chairs as people streamed into the room.

Anna Peled, our young adult cancer survivor speaker, kept us laughing with her jaunty delivery while Sarah Sample, a counselor from the BCCA, informed us of the ongoing support counselling services available for patients and family members offered at the BCCA.  Michael Booth Palmer charmed the audience with his usual evocative balladeer style.

The big surprise to me and to the crowd was Angelo Vakakis, a young man from the film, who showed up unexpectedly and gave us a quick update on what he has been doing since shooting the original Chasing Rainbows film footage in April 1998.  He looked good and is walking strong and unaided…just as he hoped he would be someday, after his leg was amputated below the knee due to cancer more than eleven years ago.  Soooo great to hook up with him again.

March 9 I received an email from Lorna Larsen of Team Shan saying she was coming out to participate in the Canadian Association of PsychoOncology (CAPO)’s annual conference here in Vancouver and we plan to hook  up and share our future goals to support young adults living with cancer.   Check out www.TeamShan.ca for more info on the marvelous work Lorna is doing on behalf of young women with breast cancer.

March 5th Michael Boot Palmer and I launched Parts 1 to 5 of the new YouTube videos interview series we have titled: “Young Adults’ Candid Cancer Conversations”.  Check it out and let us know what you think!

So it has been a month of getting things done…reaching out…and helping support.  More to come…stay tuned!

— Pat Taylor

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Upcoming: Chasing Rainbows on RADIO and on SCREEN

CHASING RAINBOWS ON THE RADIO
March 2, 2009
9:00 – 10:00 pm Eastern Standard Time (6:00 pm in BC)

Chasing Rainbows’ producer/director Pat Taylor will be interviewed on “The Stupid Cancer Show”, a live, interactive social webcast giving voice to more than 1 million young adults affected by cancer. The show is hosted by Matthew Zachary, founder of the I’m Too Young For This! Cancer Foundation. You can listen to “The Stupid Cancer Show” live online here.

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FILM SCREENING & DISCUSSION
Chasing Rainbows: Young Adults Living With Cancer
Dunbar Community Centre (4747 Dunbar St. at W. 31st)
March 5 2009, 7:00 – 8:30 pm
Free Admission: all welcome! (Call 604-222-6060 to register)

Producer/director Pat Taylor hosts a screening of Chasing Rainbows: Young Adults Living With Cancer at the Dunbar Community Centre. The event includes a post-film discussion/Q&A with young adult cancer survivors Anna Peled and Vikram Bubber and BC Cancer Agency family counselor Sarah Sample, and live music by singer-songwriter (and Chasing Rainbows co-producer) Michael Booth Palmer.

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