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Kentucky Artists Gather for Breast Cancer Awareness Benefit

from Normandi Ellis:

Each year, more than 192,000 American women learn they have breast cancer. It could be someone you know.

According to the most recent figures available from the U.S. Census Bureau, nearly 46 million Americans have no health coverage. Imagine what a diagnosis of breast cancer might mean to that individual. These people represent our friends, our colleagues, our families.

That is why on April 27th many, talented friends and artists are banding together to create a benefit event like no other in Richmond KY. From 7-9 p.m. friends of Judy Sizemore, a fellow artist and breast cancer patient, are showcasing their musical, performance, and literary talents to bring awareness to breast cancer and to the medically underinsured.

Storytellers Octavia Sexton and Mary Hamilton, musicians Beau Haddock, Sue Massek, John Gage, Randy Wilson, and Roberta Schultz (of Raison D’Etre), writers Leatha Kendrick and Anne Shelby, among many others will perform at the Richmond Area Arts Council stage on Water Street in Richmond. The gathering of friends represents the wide variety of talents in the performing arts and literature that Judy Sizemore has encouraged through her work as an arts coordinator for the Kentucky Arts Council. Her talent has been to nurture artists, educators, and the communities they serve. It seems fitting that the arts community wants to nurture in return.

“It would be difficult to find this variety and scope of talented Kentucky artists sharing the same stage again. We’re doing this to benefit our friend,” said Jennifer Rose, Berea musician, singer and performance artist, “but also to raise awareness of her situation; one that many women find themselves in.”

“The arts community in Kentucky is remarkable not only for its creativity and vitality but also for its compassion and commitment to using the arts as a vehicle for social change,” Sizemore replied. “I am humbled and honored by the kindness that has been extended to me and my family and the effort that is being made to draw awareness to these issues.”

There is no admission to the performances, but there are opportunities for donations. A silent auction of work by Kentucky’s talented visual artists kicks off the evening performances. Doors open at 7:00 p.m.

For more information, contact: Normandi Ellis (859) 985-3021 or (502) 320-2839 or normandiellis24@aol.com

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