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Here is Gilda's Club Southeastern Wisconsin, Inc. news and updated activities. Changed your mailing and/or email address? Please let us know.
Thank you to Bayshore Community Foundation, Mr. Stan Kass, the sponsors and attendees for making Laugh It Up Milwaukee 2012: Stand Up To Cancer with Seth Meyers a wonderful evening.
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Thank you to Stephanie Schultz and her AT&T associates for raising $1200 for Gilda’s Club by selling artisan-crafted hope bracelets. These funds along with all the dollars raised through the Annual Campaign will be matched by Mr. Stan Kass and family.
Click here for the 2011 donor honor roll. |
UPCOMING EVENTS
Gilda’s Club at the Mitchell Domes!
Gather your friends and family and take a trip to the Mitchell Park Conservatory's Fantasy Garden Train Show and see the Gilda’s Club railroad car donated by Stanley Kass in memory of his wife. The trains will be running until Thursday, March 8. Click here for more information about the show.
Grab your friends and come to this event benefiting Gilda's Club:
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
NEW - Nia
Mondays, Starting February 6 - March 26, 11am-12 pm
Nia is a sensory-based movement practice that draws from the disciplines of martial arts, dance, and healing arts. Beginners and athletes alike will enjoy this wellness activity done to soulful music. Instructor Dori Frankel Steigman.
Registration Full-Korean Drumming
Thursday, February 9, 6:30-7:15 pm
Korean Drumming is an opportunity for children, teens and parents whose lives have been touched by cancer to come together and have a fun, family activity. Learn about Korean culture with a Korean traditional drumming demonstration and performance by Saehee Chang. Everyone is invited to learn how to play the Jang-Gu, a special, wooden drum and listen to the dynamic rhythms of Korean drumming. Audience participation will make this a memorable event for everyone in your family.
Cancer Transitions: Moving Beyond Treatment™
Mondays, February 20 - March 26, 6-8:30 pm. Location: Community Hall B
Cancer Transitions™ is a six-week program of the Cancer Support Community and LIVESTRONG, designed to help cancer survivors make the transition from active treatment to post-treatment care. It provides cancer survivors with the information, skills and tools to address exercise, nutrition, emotional health, quality of life and medical management in the transitional time after treatment ends. Click here for a flyer with more details. Speakers will include Susan Mingesz, Gilda’s Club Clinical Program Director and Columbia St Mary’s Hospital staff: Margaret Allen, registered oncology dietician and Linda Czaplewski, Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist.
This session of Cancer Transitions™ made possible by a grant from Columbia St Mary's Foundation.
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Please Be Our Guest at:
“Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives”
with best-selling author, Richard A. Swenson, M.D.
Tuesday, February 21, light refreshments 6 pm, lecture 6:30 pm, Location: Community Hall B
Presented in partnership with the Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center
Learn how to have more time and energy for family, faith and friends. Dr. Swenson believes that life in modern day America is essentially devoid of time and space. Chronic overloading is the culprit; margin is the cure. You will leave with practical prescriptions for restoring margin in the essential areas of emotional energy, physical energy, time, and finances. Click here for a flyer.
Luncheon Social
Tuesday, February 28, 12:30 pm
A light lunch will be served before Art Expressions. Registration is required for member participation and food order.
Art Expressions: Make a Brooch
Tuesday, February 28, 1:15-3 pm
Join volunteer Jenny Wilson in a fun project using felted wool and beads to create an original piece of wearable art.
Frankly Speaking About Cancer: Lung Cancer
Wednesday, February 29, 6 pm
This comprehensive lecture empowers people affected by lung cancer with information on treatment decision-making, side effects management and tips to improve quality of life during and after the diagnosis. Speakers: Dr. Burak Gurses, pulmonologist and head of the thoracic center at Columbia St. Mary’s Hospital and Dr. Michael Keefe, oncology and hematology at Columbia St. Mary’s Hospital.
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Are you Experiencing Breakthrough Pain?
Breaking Through: Voices of Breakthrough Pain in Cancer Patients™
(a project of Archimedes Pharma with the support of the Cancer Support Community) wants to hear your opinion.
Many people with cancer and cancer survivors who experience constant background pain also experience episodes of sudden severe pain that can occur without any apparent reason. Below is a link to a survey that will take 10-15 minutes to complete. Your response to this survey will help develop educational programs for patients and oncologists to use to discuss and treat breakthrough pain. Make Your Voice Heard. Take the survey at: www.visioncriticalsurveys.com
Participation is entirely voluntary;
your answers will be strictly confidential.
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Come to these Ongoing Activities:
Relaxation Techniques, every Tuesday, 10 am and on 1st Tuesday of the month, 5:30 pm
Wellness Group (for people living with cancer) – Tuesdays, 10:30 am
Gynecologic Networking - 4th Mondays, 6 pm
Men’s Networking – 1st Tuesdays, 6 pm
Knitting – 3rd Tuesday of the month, 1:30 pm
Art Expressions - last Tuesday of the month, 1 pm
Grupo de Apoyo – Spanish Speaking Support Group, 3rd Tuesdays of the month 6:30-8 pm at the Waukesha Hispanic Resource Center
Hatha Yoga – Wednesdays, 1 pm
Young Survivors Networking Group, 2nd Wednesdays, 6:30 pm at Christ Church, Mequon
Family & Friends Group, 2nd Wednesdays, 6:30 pm
Bereavement Group - 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the month, 6:30 pm Young Survival Coalition, 2nd Thursdays, 6:30 pm at Froedtert Clinical Cancer Center Kundalini Yoga - Fridays, 1 pm
Please reserve your spot for any of Gilda’s Club activities at least 48 hours in advance by contacting us (414) 962-8201 x102 or email Justine. Classes without the minimum number of pre-registered attendees may be canceled.
All program activities are held at the Jewish Community Center, Room 3J10,
6255 N. Santa Monica Blvd. in Whitefish Bay unless otherwise noted. Please use the west side Marcus Pavilion entrance.
Do you need a ride?
If you need a ride to and from the Jewish Community Center for Gilda’s Club support and networking groups, please contact Justine Murray at 414-962-8201 ext. 102 or email Justine.
Office Hours:
Monday-Thursday, 9 am – 5 pm Friday, 9 am – 3 pm
Please forward this e-news to others who may be interested in Gilda's Club. View our complete calendar of activities posted on our website.