Toronto Women's Bookstore
http://www.womensbookstore.com
416-922-8744

1. Win a free book by Radclyffe, who’s reading at TWB on Friday, April 1, 2005
2. Written in Colour Update: NO REGISTRATION FEE!!
3. May Course: Cancer: Creative Strategies for Resistance

1. Raclyffe and Jessica Casavant will be reading at TWB in an evening called
“In Love: Lesbian Romantic Fiction Writers”

Friday, April 1, 2005 7pm
Toronto Women’s Bookstore
73 Harbord St
Free admission, all are welcome, wheelchair accessible.

Win one of 2 copies of “Change of Pace: Erotic Interludes” by Radclyffe. Be the 5th or 20th correct response by email to this brain teasing query: How many staff work at the Toronto Women’s Bookstore? Contest ends Thursday, March 24 at noon. Winners will be notified by email. One entry per person please!

2. Written in Colour UPDATE!!
Great late-breaking news! Toronto Women’s Bookstore has received a grant from the Ontario Arts Council and we are thrilled to announce that we will be offering the wonderful day of Written in Colour workshops and programming for FREE for all participants. We would like to thank the Ontario Arts Council for their support. For full details of the schedule of the Written in Colour Writer’s Symposium, visit our website: http://www.womensbookstore.com

Second Annual Written in Colour Writer’s Symposium for Writers of Colour and Native Writers
Saturday, April 9, 2005 9am Sign-in 10 am to 6:15pm
Workshops OISE 252 Bloor St W. (St George subway) 4th floor
All are welcome, wheelchair accessible.

There are still spots available in the free manuscript feedback session with Mark Cote, publisher of Cormorant Books. Deadline to submit manuscripts directly to Mark is Thursday March 24 at noon. Call us to reserve your spot and for details. 416.922.8744

3. Cancer: Creative Strategies for Resistance
With instructor Pam Patterson

This is a four-week workshop in which we will explore creative strategies to address the prevention and treatment of cancer. Mondays in May: 9, 16, 23 and 30 from 6:30pm to 9pm @ TWB
Please note that May 23 is a holiday. Arrangements will be made to meet off-site at a location other than TWB for that date.
Fee: $52 (No Refunds) Enrollment limited to 15 participants

Confronted with the increasing numbers who now have this disease and the danger to the next generation, what are simple practical actions we can do to take on the battle while feeling sometimes powerless? What are creative ways we can incorporate action into our everyday lives? Personal experience with cancer may be useful but not necessary. There will be a focus on breast cancer; however, the material is applicable to other cancers as well.

Readings include:
Evelyne Accad, The Wounded Breast
Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
Sandra Butler & Barbara Rosenblum, Cancer in Two Voices
Sat Dharam Kaur, The Complete Natural Medicine Guide to Breast Cancer
Catherine Lord, The Summer of Her Baldness: A Cancer Improvisation
Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
Deena Metzger, Tree

* Participants are encouraged to do their own research throughout the course of the class.

Week 1: Locating the issues in the cancer debate: the run for the cure or the walk for prevention? Serving women with cancer or funding for research? Where are the priorities? How has activism already had an impact on cancer treatment? (Evelyne Accad, Rachel Carson)

Week 2: Cancer prevention: the environmental debate, creative strategies for prevention. (Sat Dharam Kaur, Rachel Carson)

Weeks 3: Cancer treatment: the realities, the position of the woman - issues of class, race, gender, the social stigma. (S. Butler & B. Rosenblum, Audre Lorde, Catherine Lord)

Week 4: Creative strategies by artists and writers. Slides of performance and visual work including work/actions by teens. (Deena Metzer, Catherine Lord)

Pam Patterson (PhD) has, for 25 years, been active in both the art and academic communities. Her research and teaching has focused on embodiment in art practice, the “body” in art, art/academe, disability studies and women’s studies. She is currently Visiting Scholar for the Centre for Women’s Studies in Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto and teaches at the Toronto School of Art. This past year she presented a new performance work on disability issues, Body as Site/sight. She will be lecturing/performing on her cancer work in spring 2005. She has been living with breast cancer for a year.

Mondays in May: 9, 16, 23 and 30 from 6:30pm to 9pm @ TWB
Fee: $52 (No Refunds) Enrollment limited to 15 participants
Presented by the Toronto Women’s Bookstore