Art à la Carte | Framing Hope for Cancer

I DIDN'T CONQUER THE MOUNTAIN ...
Calgary physician, Michele Moss Donsky’s trek to Kilimanjaro this past August led to a traumatic rescue with a charitable twist.

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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ADMINISTRATION ENGAGES SUPPORT AT LAST!
We are thrilled to welcome Therese Rajotte as our new part-time Coordinator for Fund Development and Administration. This no-nonsense woman simply oozes with personality and is a master at assembling just the right team to get the job done.
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VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR STEPS DOWN
With the gentle grace that has become her signature at the bedside for the past nine years, Ruth Trueman (pictured right) is stepping back from her position as hospital coordinator. Ruth summarizes her experience with Art à la Carte in this moving letter to the volunteers.
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I will never forget that in the end, week after week, 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, Bedside Volunteer 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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