Exploring how success is defined, how individual and collective growth can strengthen communities, and how to create the conditions for positive transformation.

FEATURING

• Rachel Clark, community volunteer and activist
• Cherie Dimaline, author
• Tomi Gbeleyi, founder of Makeup for Melanin Girls
• Teva Harrison, artist, writer and cartoonist
• Ryan McMahon, comedian
• Carol Off, host of CBC’s “As It Happens”
• Hugh Segal, principal of Massey College, University of Toronto
• Wali Shah, speaker and poet

Teva Harrison: In-Between Days: Using Expressive Arts to Cope with Advanced Cancer

Join artist Teva Harrison to learn about her personal journey of living with advanced cancer, and how she has used expressive art to provide a sense of hope beyond her terminal diagnosis. Harrison will discuss her recent publication of illustrations, and her work in the exhibition, In-Between Days: Living with Cancer. A short Q & A moderated by CancerCare social clinician, Elizabeth Payne will follow the artist talk.

Talk is Free; Admission applies to see exhibition.

Presented in Partnership with CancerCare Manitoba

 

In association with the Metastatic Breast Cancer Network, SHARE and Sharsheret, Susan G. Komen Greater NYC invites you to join us for Truth and Dare: A Metastatic Breast Cancer Conference. Expect a day and a half of learning, fellowship, pampering and the most current information on treatments, research trials, patient support and national issues related to metastatic/stage IV breast cancer (MBC).

http://www.komennyc.org/site/PageServer?pagename=truthanddare.

Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, 610 University Avenue, The Dr. Bob Bell Auditorium, 6th Floor (room 6-604)

Presented by UHN Bioethics – The Philippa Harris Lecture featuring author and artist Teva Harrison

Teva Harrison is a young cancer patient and the author of a critically-acclaimed graphic novel, In-Between Days, which is published by the House of Anansi. Ms. Harrison will be discussing her personal experience navigating the disease and reflecting upon ethically-relevant issues such as self-identity, balancing medical uncertainty with long term goals and hope for the future, and the impact of cancer on important relationships.

Presented by UHN Bioethics – The Philippa Harris Lecture featuring author and artist Teva Harrison

Teva Harrison is a young cancer patient and the author of a critically-acclaimed graphic novel, In-Between Days, which is published by the House of Anansi. Ms. Harrison will be discussing her personal experience navigating the disease and reflecting upon ethically-relevant issues such as self-identity, balancing medical uncertainty with long term goals and hope for the future, and the impact of cancer on important relationships.

Free admission * No registration required * Light lunch at 12 noon

The Harris Lecture was established at Princess Margaret Hospital in 1981 by the friends and family of Philippa Harris, a caring, bright and enthusiastic student who died from cancer.

The Harris Lecture was established at Princess Margaret Hospital in 1981 by the friends and family of Philippa Harris, a caring, bright and enthusiastic student who died from cancer.

Teva Harrison was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer at the age of 37. In her brilliant and inspiring hybrid graphic memoir, "In Between Days", she documents through comic illustration and short personal essays what it means to live with the disease. Join the author, SHARE, and the Metastatic Breast Cancer Network for this Facebook Live event where Teva will discuss her experience and answer your questions live. This event takes place on Facebook.com. 

How to Participate

1. Follow and like SHARE on Facebook at Facebook.com/SHARECancerSupport. 

2. Go to SHARE's Facebook page at 12:30pm ET on Monday, October 23. A FacebookLive video will appear at the top of SHARE's feed. Click on the video to tune in! 

3. If you have questions, post them in the comments and the moderator will ask Teva your questions during the interview.

READING EVENT 10: Writers of Non-Fiction

A festival favourite, this event showcases the diversity that is non-fiction writing, from memoir to biography, investigative reporting to creative non-fiction. Panel and audience discussion will centre around readings, and the process and approach to bringing particular subject matter and experiences to life. Featuring: Shelley O’Callaghan (How Deep is the Lake: A Century at Chilliwack Lake), Teva Harrison (In-Between Days), Briony Penn (The Real Thing: The Natural History of Ian McTaggart Cowan) and Yvonne Blomer (Sugar Ride: Cycling from Hanoi to Kuala Lumpur) and the non-fiction winner of the Whistler Independent Book Prize.

Moderator: Leslie Anthony

TBD

Join Teva Harrison for a presentation and book launch celebrating the U.S. release of In-Between Days.

Admission is free.

Telling our Own Stories (2:30 pm)

Memoir author Denise Donlon (Fearless as Possible), poet Chris Pannell (Love Despite the Ache) and graphic novelist Teva Harrison (In Between Days) share three different approaches to telling their own stories. 

Named by Globe and Mail's Toronto's Top 16 to Watch, artist, writer, and cartoonist, Teva Harrison, discusses her critically acclaimed graphic memoir, In-Between Days, which documents her personal journey of living with breast cancer through comic illustration and short personal essays. Q&A and book signing to follow.

The Reuben Brainin Fund of the JPL presents
Reading Between the Wines
with Teva Harrison
“In-Between Days: A Memoir about Living with Cancer” by Teva Harrison

Teva Harrison is an artist, writer and cartoonist. She will be leading a discussion on her critically acclaimed graphic memoir, In-Between Days. Teva was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer at age 37. The book was listed in The Globe’s 16 Canadian reads for the first half of 2016, the CBC’s Spring Book Preview and 49th Shelf’s Most Anticipated: Our Spring 2016 Non-Fiction Preview.

Prior to her cancer diagnosis, Teva was the Director of Marketing at the Nature Conservancy of Canada, and before that, she worked in visual art, film, publishing and music, as part of the show or behind the scenes in Canada and the U.S. She was born in rural Oregon, and currently lives in Toronto with her wonderful husband.

In collaboration with Drawn & Quarterly comic book store.

Mariko Tamaki & Teva Harrison: In Conversation with Diana Tamblyn

Writer and graphic artist Teva Harrison was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer at the age of 37. She started to draw comics as one way to fight back against the disease, and find the humour and absurdity in it. She added short personal essays, and In-Between Days was born. In it she balances the sadness of cancer with everyday acts of hope and wonder. Joseph Boyden calls her book “sly and brutal and funny and crushing.” Since the book was published in April, she’s been touring Canada, expanding the breast cancer conversation and helping others living with cancer feel less alone. It’s working. Spend an afternoon with an inspiring, honest and funny woman who really knows the difference between surviving and living.

Tom Robbins once said, “People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.” But sometimes telling the truth is just as creative as fiction. Ivan Coyote’s Tomboy Survival Guide is the personal tale of the triumphs and terrors of a “young butch”—told with the heartfelt wit that only Coyote can deliver. Craig Davidson opens up about his year of driving a school bus for a group of disabled children, changing his life and teaching him lessons he didn’t know he needed to learn.Teva Harrison’s comic illustrations and personal essays chronicle how she lives with terminal breast cancer, and finds that sharing the hard parts of her life makes it easier. And Noah Richler recounts his time on the campaign trail. Turns out running for office can be devastatingly funny.

A gaggle of female writers provide readings and chat about writing as women, penning memoirs, and expunging about family. With special guest, Andi Zeisler, author of We Were Feminists Once.

Hosted/moderated by Jane Harris

Featuring Jowita Bydlowska, Lynn Coady, Taras Grescoe, Anosh Irani, Teva Harrison, John Metcalf, Andrew F. Sullivan, Sherwin Tjia, Zoe Whittall & Clea Young

From the creator and host of Wordfest’s Adult Spelling Bee comes a riotous, titillating cabaret-style event. Authors from the Wordfest lineup read salacious passages from their favourite books in the Calgary premier of Sherwin Tjia’s Naughty Bits Read-a-Thon. Cash bar available.

Featuring Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, Teva Harrison, Jay Hosking, Affinity Konar & Andrew F. Sullivan

This showcase is custom-made for early adopters of literary talent! An inspirational roster of rising North American stars read from their innovative, engrossing new novels and share the challenges they’ve encountered, on and off the page, breaking through in a crowded industry.

Featuring Lynn Coady, Teva Harrison, Lisa Moore & Andi Zeisler

Because it’s 2016 — and these four books are the bomb — Wordfest presents a showcase of powerful, provocative women authors who write strong, smart and with no fear. Together they tackle everything from breast cancer and sexual assault, to pop culture and the future of the feminist movement.

Patients Are a Virtue: Reflections on Living with Cancer

Nothing But The Truth Tent

Two authors diagnosed with cancer at very different times in their lives – 37 and nearly 60 – respond to the devastating news through their art. Teva Harrison has turned her experience with cancer into a moving memoir in graphic novel format. Kenneth Sherman, a poet, has documented his experiences within the health care system through eloquent prose. Both delve into the deep connection between illness and creativity. This talk is essential for anyone whose life has been touched by cancer.

Teva will be reading as part of the Word on the Street Preview at the Kitchener Public Library along with Kamal Al-Solaylee, Amy Stuart, Ian Hamilton & Guy Gavriel Kay. 

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