Also, at 7.pm. on Wednesday at the Hipp will be the showing of the film Living Downstream, based on the book by Sandra Steingraber.  It is part of the Cinema Verde environmental film and arts festival.  Quoted from the festival brochure:

"Living Downstream is an eloquent and cinematic documentary film.....follows Sandra during one pivotal year as she travels across North America, working to break the silence about cancer and its environmental links...her public quest to bring attention to the urgent human rights issue of cancer prevention.  But Sandra is not the only one on a journey- the chemicals against which she is fighting are also on the move.  We follow these invisible toxins as they migrate to some of the most beautiful places in North America.  We see how these chemicals enter our bodies and how, once inside, scientists believe they may be working to cause cancer."

In conjunction with the film, the Breast Cancer Fund, a non profit organization based in San Francisco, will have publications available at a table for you to take with you to learn more about environmental pollution and how it affects our health, including the 2010 edition of State of the Evidence, and The Falling Age of Puberty in U.S. Girls (written by Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D.).   For more about the Breast Cancer Fund and what it does, the website is www.breastcancerfund.org    For more about Living Downstream (the film and the book):

www.livingdownstream.com    Copies of the book will also be on display (but not for sale) at the BCF table.

Please be sure to check the Cinema Verde website for last minute changes in the film schedules; 25 films in all will be shown over the ten day festival, which ends on March 27th:  www.verdefest.org

Also, you are invited to the "Cancer Connections" meeting on Wednesday at noon at Hope Lodge.  The speakers will be from the CSCRB * at U.F., discussing triple negative breast cancer and what they, the CSCRB, are doing to help find the causes and a cure.   Their fundraising walk, the NuNu 5k, will be held on April 2nd: see their website at www.cscrb.org

If you would like to attend the meeting Wednesday, please be sure to RSVP to Barb Thomas at bnbbarb@xxxxxxx

For more information about Cancer Connections and the monthly meetings,  you are welcome to contact me.

  thanks!

Barb Thomas