Can Art help people with cancer?

We think it can!

Come see this very special exhibition, showcasing the work of children with cancer

Details of Exhibition
The NCI/Tracy’s Kids International Art Exchange is a collection of 207 drawings by kids with cancer, produced while they were patients in Cancer Centres in the US and the Middle East (Jordan, Israel, Egypt, Turkey).

Created during 2007 and 2008 in response to the theme “The day I will never forget.." the exhibition is visiting Ireland as part of CANCER 2009, the International Cancer Conference (www.cancerconference.ie)  and will be exhibited from Tuesday 12th May -  X July.

This is only the second time that the exhibition will have been seen following its launch in Washington in February. This exhibition is linked to an Art Therapy program which has been in operation in the Lombardi Cancer Centre in Georgetown, Maryland since 1992. The Program and this Exhibition aims to use art therapy to help young patients to develop creative communication skills that will help them to be emotionally equipped to fight cancer while they are being treated and also to be psychologically prepared for when they are cancer free.

Tracy Councill, the Art Therapist who has lent her name to this Programme and the Exhibition (www.tracyskids.org) will be coming to Ireland for the Exhibition and to speak on the topic of Art Therapy at the Conference, while Prof Aziza Shad , Director of the Paediatric Haematology-Oncology Programme at the Lombardi Cancer Centre will also be coming to Ireland and will speak at our Public Symposium, The Fight against Cancer, where do we stand? which will also take place as part of the Conference (www.cancerconference.ie).

We hope that this Exhibition, as well as showing the courage and talent of the children who have produced such wonderful and life affirming pictures, will also provoke debate on the role of art therapy and art intervention for both children and adults in Ireland.