Art à la Carte | Framing Hope for Cancer

SOMETIMES ...
While our volunteer visits to the bedside are mostly joy-filled and affirming, some encounters bring sadness that is at times unspeakable.

CHEMOTHERAPY RECEIVES 60 NEW IMAGES
Three volunteer gremlins worked late into the night refurbishing artwork for the Tom Baker Cancer Centre's Medical Day Care Unit. Some of their favorites can be seen here.

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DELIVERING IMAGES OF HOPE
Watch this three minute video for a first-hand glimpse at why we do what we do.
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MEET BLOGGER CATHERINE DABELS
Catherine Dabels has four kids, one husband and one dog. She is also a foster mom who loves to read and write. Her versatile writing style is reflected in this sharp turn from blogging humour to the serious recounting of volunteer visits to the bedside.
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THE POWER OF ONE
The Footprints Gallery is one of Art à la Carte's feature projects. Photographs have been situated along a narrow and somewhat forbidding hallway that connects the Foothills Hospital with the Special Services Building. The following monologue relates to photos of a boy eating a cookie and is based on authentic commentary from an oncologist who travels the hallway daily en route to her office.
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We admire the work that the volunteers at Art à la Carte are doing for patients. For people who are in their darkest hour, the value of having a reassuring presence at their bedsides cannot be overstated. -Daniel Richards, Chief Executive Officer, Global Rescue More >>

Art à la Carte is a volunteer society based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada that brings colour, connection and comfort to thousands of people in hospital settings every year. Artwork is placed in treatment areas, at the bedside and in corridors, transforming sterile clinical environments into places of beauty and hope.

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"I will never forget that in the end,we made it to the bedside, to the patient, the most important of destinations, the only one that really mattered. And I was accompanied by some of the most wonderful people I have ever known in my life." Ruth Trueman, Volunteer

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