The Eno River Fellowship Foundation, RCWMS, + Flipping Cancer Project present
Our Bodies, Our Stories: Dreaming Health Justice
Community Performance
Saturday March 2, 2024, 4:00 to 5:15 pm
Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (ERUUF), Main Sanctuary, 4907 Garrett Rd, Durham, NC, 27707
Learn more below about this ensemble performance by people facing cancer and life-threatening illness as patients, caregivers, community supporters, and healthcare workers
Performers in a Flipping Cancer presentation for the UNC School of Medicine — a pharmacist / metastatic cancer patient, family medicine physician, caregiver and community-based social services advocate in an InterPlay methods “gesture choir” story
Community Performance Description
In an informal ensemble performance — with movement, story, voice, poetry, and music — local patients, caregivers, and healthcare workers are joining to reimagine what “health justice” means in our communities and beyond.
Come support vibrant insights and desires for change arising in people navigating cancers and other life-threatening illnesses, as they reach broader audiences.
Program facilitated by Marie Garlock, PhD alongside community collaborators whom you may know and love. Sound healing music by Rev. Stacy Grove and participants.
Disability accommodations and COVID safety onsite. Quiet indoor and covered outdoor areas to relax. All are welcome!
Performance Flyer (.pdf for print, email) — Performance Image (.png for social media) — All Media
Who can benefit from attending?
Anyone and everyone. Come join a public audience of supporters for this special ensemble of people who are patients, caregivers, healthcare workers, and community performers!
Accessibility and Safety
Spaced seating available in ERUUF Sanctuary for COVID safety, masks invited but not required
Wheelchair and walker accessible; stage has microphones for audio accessibility and clear sight lines for audiences
A viewing room off the sanctuary allows children to play with their caregivers who can still take in the performance
Sensory input — This is a contemplative experience, with gentle sounds and music, lower lighting (no flashing lights), ample seating room to be close or far from others, and an invitation to be present and open, just as you are
RSVP - All are welcome
RSVP to help us plan — Walk-ins always welcome — Spread the word!
Free to everyone, with Eno River Fellowship Foundation support
Parking is open and no-cost, with signs and guides onsite to welcome you to the Commons Room, in the ERUUF Care Building (carpool or pickup may be available)
Questions about the Our Bodies, Our Stories series, transportation, or accessibility? Contact marie@itisinyou.org, 919-607-5533 (call or text)
We are grateful for funding from the Eno River Fellowship Foundation and community partnerships including ERUUF Pastoral Care and Resource Center for Women in Ministry in the South!