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Funny Video About Aging

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A powerful and hilarious video about aging and the importance of laughter. A special thanks to all those caregivers out there, you are appreciated!  Click here to watch

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Fashion Night Out Was Delicious

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Special thanks to all those who made last night a wonderful treat and a terrific success. More photos to come.

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Sneak Peak at Tom Binns + EC Fashion Night Out

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Sneak peak at our new +1 pendant. Buy one necklace and provide a cancer patient or a survivor with a free art class. Find out more at EC+1 and come join us tomorrow night at the Tom Binns Megastore 41 Perry St NY, NY. We are celebrating from 6 – 10 pm. Tom Binns Design  

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Big Art in Small Spaces

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EC is providing photography classes to  kids with cancer (ages 4 -18) at the LAC+USC Medical Center. As a county hospital, there isn’t a lot of available space, but we are making things work. Our “Shooting the Light” photography course is actually being held in a treatment room, and the results are out of this world. Check […]

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Why Creativity Matters?

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“Cancer patients are increasingly turning to alternative and complementary therapies to reduce symptoms, improve quality of life and boost their ability to cope with stress. Art therapy provides a distraction that allows patients to focus on something positive instead of their health for a time, and it gives patients something they can control.” -Director of […]

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EC Writing Class Excerpt by Dominique

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“One of the women described herself as a short haired old lady. Not so. The woman is mod,  hip but doesn’t know it. She seems to carry a secret. The kind cats hold in their stretched limbs. It is as if she has the solution to a riddle she isn’t ready to solve. She would […]

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Palette

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What does your palette look like? You might get a pleasant surprise. Palette: “a thin board or slab on which an artist lays and mixes colors”

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A Poem for EC

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The following poem was submitted to me by a friend and I think it’s awesome! Not only is it beautiful, but it does a great job of summarizing the intent of Elizabeth’s Canvas. If you have any written works or poems about your battles with cancer, we would love to read them and share them […]

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Life Saver: Her2

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I love this painting because its my mom’s depiction of the cancer drug Herceptin. Also known as Her2, Herceptin is one of the reasons why my mom is still alive. “I have no idea what Herceptin looks like under the microscope, but I do know that it helped save my life. This painting was inspired […]

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