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...............W dnsdy~Ms 0 1 08 f How many ways are tbere to describe breast cancer? How many ways do women confront breast cancer? For eacb woman, breast cancer bas it's own language, and for each woman the path bas if's own map. For every breast cancer survivor there is a story of suffering, anger, fear, hope and grief. The grief is not only a private mourning following the surgical exile of ber breast(s). The grief carnies witb it the weigbt of public statistics: one in every mine women in Canada die of breast cancer. There is no cure. There is no known way of preventing breast cancer -- only of detecting it tbrough regular breast self- examination and annual consultation with your physician. Wbat I saw at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto last weekend, is that breast cancer victims and survivors are searcbing for >a voice. In a poignant collection of twenty- four pieces of art entitled "Survivors, I Search of a Voice. The Art of Courage", I saw -- I heard -- the voices of 100 breast cancer survivors and 24 artists, in visual polypbony, speak to me about the fight against breast cancer. Barbra Amesbury and partner Joan Chalmers commissioned 24 of Canada's best women visual artists to create works of art that "would, somehow, give a 'voice' to the tbousands of women struggling witb this disease." In a remarkable endeavour to 'educate' the artists, Amesbury and Chalmers brougbt them together witb 100 breast cancer survivors who told them their stories, revealing the emotional and the physical scars of a discase which tbey bad learned to live with. Then, as the AIDS quilt became a moving symbol in the figbt against that disease, s0 tOO, did Amesbury and Chalmers feel the "Survivors" exhibition would be a symbol -- in the figbt against breast cancer. Eighteen montbs after the idea was hatched. "Survivors" opened at the ROM on February 17th, and the silence is broken. I rend dozens of letters installed in a memonial album wbicb forms part of Jane Ash Poitras' from Edmonton) creation, "Courage Blanket", a stark monument to both breast cancer survivors and a memoial to those wbo have been killed by breast cancer. The monument takes the shape of a giant tombstone. On the back is a chalkboard wbere you or I can write the namne of someone we bave lost to breast cancer. Donna Kriekle (from Regina) boldly lays the odds out on a ,table of contents' in ber piece, "if I Were to Need a MastectOMY ... ". She tells us: "As we gather around this cancerous table of chance, each of us becomes a player, eitber as a spectator or-as a participant. What are the odds?" Wbile the beating of a heart ecboes fromn the base of the table, multiple images emerge from die table top: a baby breast feeds; words sucb as 'knowledge' inform us of our responsibility as women; a scalpel slides into a breast to cut out the deadly celîs. The images are stark. You want to turn away fromn the knife that feels . .. too close. In "MonkeyBusinessMen", Vancouver artists Barbara Klunder doesn't monkey around witb the anger wbicb emerges from ber understanding of the disease. She says of ber cabinet of monkeys wbo See, Hear, Speak No Evil: ". . . our governments and the powerful elite of our society were practicing the politics of avoidance. What if we all considered cancer an enemy and killer equal to fascism and dedicated ourselves, re-designed society, for a WAR to find solutions. Itfs not impossible." And kneeling i the middle of the roomn is Jane Buckles' (Uxbridge> "Annie". Literally, "stopped dead" in ber tracks, Annie ignores ber daytimer strewn behind ber as she looks upon the butterfly poised upon ber hand. 0f "Annie", Buckles writes: "As with the metamorphosis a butterfly experiences, I see the survivor, througb ber cancer, transformed into a beautiful creature with a heigbtened awareness and reverence to the preciousness of lfe."ý "Survivors" will be at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto until May 22nd. It travels to the Gallery/Stratford from June 09 wo September lOth, and then to other galleries across the country. See the voices behind breast cancer. Share their message. Help in the fight against breast cancer. And, remember to perform montbly breast self- examination. On May 16tb, 7:00 - 8:30 p.m., the ROM will be hosting a panel discussion: "Breast Cancer, Genetic Researcb and Genetic Testing". For more information about the exhibit or panel discussion, call the ROM at (416) 586-5826. Douglas SIMPSOn DECORATINGI 983-5104 PITCH-IN MA&Y 17 Photo-radar vans Provincial Police are reporting incidents wbere pboto radar vans are becoming, tbreatened by transport trucks. The trucks are being driven off the bighway coming close to the vans parked at the side of the road taking photos of licence plates. There have been numerous near misses on bigbway 401 and a recent incident on bigbway 115 near Peterborough. One of the four vans being threatened purchased by the province is based in Cobourg and it bas been said that operators of the van have said they have seen this situation which appears to be happening more often in recent weeks. The practice is raising concerns as some of the incidents have become near misses and on being driven off the road and, turned back on the pavement spray the van witb gravel. Police state it is a dangerous practice and one thât could get ont of control. Recently the Cobourg Van was operating on Highway 115 near Peterborough. 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