Woooah! The Keep A Breast Traveling Education Booth will be kicking off this spring touring season full steam ahead! We are super excited to come out to a city near you around the world this spring. We have several exciting tours and festivals that we will be on site with our Traveling Educational Booth with important information for you, your friends and your family to come check out. We will be on the road a total of 241 days, we will set up in 55 different cities, 4 providences, and 10 countries as well as set up at 9 festivals. We will have new tee shirts, hoodies and of course our I Heart Boobies wristbands for donations to help support Keep A Breast’s breast cancer awareness, prevention and support programs. Make sure you come say hello at one of these events! We can’t wait to meet you!
The Keep A Breast Foundation Presents the Madina Lake UK/Europe Tour March 25 – April 17 as they hit the road in an effort to educate young fans about breast cancer prevention. KAB’s highly successful traveling educational booth will be fully interactive with engaging ways to learn about breast health.
So please come visit us in the United Kingdom, France, Holland, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria & Italy!!
Amanda has a amazing story and we are so happy to have her want to throw a benefit for The Keep A Breast Foundation!! Amanda Lucas a 24 year old from Milford, MA shares her story:
” I’m a 3 time cancer survivor. I have a heart that is crying out to stop young adult and people in general to get themselves checked. Knowledge is the best weapon when it comes to cancer and prevention. I met KAB a few years back and they really listened to me, and got teary eyed when i told them my story.
I want to be a person that people know for surviving and doing something about their second chance (4th in my case) and without people like me there will be a lot more under 30 cases being diagnosed at a late stage like myself. ”
Music For Awareness show in Milford, Massachusetts
March 4th, 2010
At The Alamo
5 – 10pm
If you can’t make it to the show, but want to donate to the cause, you can go to the link below and support Keep A Breast through First Giving fundraising site! You can create your own fundraising page or donate to the link provided below.
DONATE HERE!! Click the flyer for full size version!
On this year’s Valentine’s Weekend, it was out of the question to do V-Day as usual! No flowers or dinner or red heart pillows on our bed! No! After packing the car, we headed to the Pyrenean ski resort of Saint- Lary for a two-days event dedicated to the ladies for the third edition of the Betty Jam, an 100%-girls contest, 18 passionate girls, aged from 8 to 25 came and the whole Keep A Breast Europe Team was there!
Keep A Breast Europe spreads the word of Breast Cancer prevention all over Europe and Idoia and Maia, two competitors from the Basque Country, understood the impact of our message and decided to ride wearing our KAB tee-shirts!
Our prevention message could be heard on the slopes: “Check Your Self”!
Keep A Breast Europe would like to thank the I’m a Girl Association for inviting us on the event.
See you next year!
Ely
Betty Jam 10 ‘, Saint- Lary, France.
Le weekend de la saint Valentin, hors de question de se plier aux règles ! Ni fleurs, ni repas en amoureux, direction les pistes des Pyrénées pour deux jours 100% snow entre filles.
Pour la troisième édition du Betty Jam, compétition réservée aux filles, le team Keep a Breast Europe était présent.
Sur le snow park, 18 nanas âgées de 8 à 25 ans passionnées par la glisse. En bas des pistes, deux stands, celui de Mountain riders, et le nôtre ! Tee-shirts, badges, bracelets, sticks pour les lèvres,… tout y était pour sensibiliser au maximum les skieurs venus nombreux ce jour-là.
Keep a Breast Europe s’installe lentement en Europe et tend à répandre la bonne parole autour du cancer du sein. Idoia et Maia, deux comépétitrices en provenance directe du Pays- Basque, ont compris le message et ont ainsi choisi de rider toute la journée avec un tee-shirt à notre effigie !
Un message de prévention résonnait sur les pistes… « Check Yourself ».
Keep a Breast Europe remercie toute l’équipe de l’association I’m a Girl, organisatrice de l’event Betty Jam depuis trois saisons déjà.
A l’année prochaine !
Ely
Look at the smile on this beautiful woman Lyn Mills.
We just met Lyn, as she walked into the Keep A Breast traveling education tent at the ROXY PRO in Australia.
Lyn is an 8 year breast cancer survivor. She was walking by our tent at the contest and noticed what KAB was doing, not really realizing that the breast casts on display were being auctioned off, she quietly wished in her mind that she could own the beautiful cast of Mel Evans painted by Tazmen Hayes.
Upon leaving our tent, Lyn’s friend told us that Lyn only had a few days left to live, and if that is truly the case, we pray that it is not, she thanked us for making those last days brighter.
Lyn came back the next day and bought that piece via our silent auction and has this to say:
” I am breast cancer survivor for 8 years. I have advanced breast cancer with bone metasteses. I am honored to have won ” Mel’s Boobs” and to be able to display them in my home. I am totally in love with my tribe (women). Thank you Keep A Breast.
Lyn Mills 1 March 2010 . Roxy Pro Gold Coast
he Keep A Breast Foundation has received many letters, emails, Facebook comments and other communication from people wanting to talk about our I Love Boobies campaign. Some are upset that they are being banned, and some want to talk about their message. We fully understand the I Love Boobies Campaign is not for everyone; however, we also feel that “boobies” is not a four-letter word.
Keep A Breast’s target audience is teenagers. Across the nation, health classes are being cut, P.E. scaled back, and art and music are nearly non-existent. We think these are pivotal ways of teaching this group health, self confidence, and creative expression.
We feel the best way to reach, educate and impact teenagers in an authentic way is by giving them important, possibly life-saving information at places they already frequent: concerts and action sports-related events and partnerships with brands and stores they already shop at/for. We reach out to young people with the help of supporters like pro surfers, artists, skateboarders and musicians. These ambassadors are role models and leaders for today’s youth. The Keep A Breast team helps us spread the word about breast cancer prevention, body image, early detection, and the importance of living a healthy lifestyle.
We pass out hundreds of thousands of Breast Self Exam cards each year to young people explaining exactly why loving your body is important and explaining the relationship between body image and breast cancer. We encourage you to visit and read our health page.
We talk to young ladies everyday about how important it is to appreciate, respect and love their breasts and themselves. Our message is to increase awareness among young people so they are better equipped to make choices and develop habits to benefit their long term heath, and we believe loving your body is a huge step in doing so.
Many young women develop a negative attitude towards their breasts and put energy into criticizing them or wishing they were different somehow. We work closely with our ambassadors to promote a healthy body type. They are all amazing athletes in surfing, skateboarding, snowboarding, and female musicians that are breaking boundaries based on talent. You can read more on our team page.
We also talk with young men who are dealing with family members or friends being affected by breast cancer. For many, pink ribbons don’t resonate with them, and talking about breasts is taboo. Though Keep A Breast Foundation, they have found an outlet to express themselves, educate themselves about changes they can make to live a healthy lifestyle and connect with people that are going through the same emotions.
We have 8 years of success and testimonies from young people all over the world who have visited our “traveling education booth” and learned how to examine their breasts, then later find a cancerous lump. Because they met Keep A Breast they found the lump early, they have a much better survival rate. Nearly three million people visit our site every month to learn healthy tips, ways of support, express their inner feelings, make connections with others and learn coping strategies helpful to them and their loved ones.
Thank you so much for visiting our website. Please poke around. We like it.
The FAMILY Bakery in Gate City, VA. has made a Keep A Breast Cupcake!
“The cupcake I designed is called The Awesome Cupcake. It’s very similar to “funfetti” cake mix, but I top it off with a rich pink buttercream icing. We take a dollar off of each cupcake sold to donate to your The Keep A Breast Foundation!”
The FAMILY Bakery
101 East Jackson Street
Gate City, VA 24251
Facebook.com/familybakery
If you can’t make it to the bakery to grab one of these tasty treats, but want to donate to the cause, you can go to the link below and support Keep A Breast through First Giving fundraising site! You can create your own fundraising page or donate to the link provided below.
Keep A Breast at Musink! Come stop by our booth to check out Live breast cast art, gra some educational material and say Hi!!
OC Fair & Event Center
Feb 19th – 21st 2010
We have embarked on our 4th bracelet fundraiser with Spencers this last week (Hurry they are almost sold out!!) and we wanted to share with you a letter from one of the Spencer’s employees Jasmine that worked with us on the road in our Educational Booth. We are so grateful for this partnership and the way Spencer’s has embraced our organization and initiated the Spencer’s Volunteer Army!
Hi Keep A Breast!
I really want you to know how much of an impact the experience made on me
and my experience with KAB at Warped 2009.
Cancer is a word that for some reason has lingered over my whole life. My mother had a whilms tumor as a child which caused a kidney to burst. She survived and lived her life as if nothing happened. At 23 during her pregnancy with my younger brother they found that she had cervical cancer. While my brother was in the whomb! They both survived and live normal lives. In 2002 my grandfather was diagnosed with rectal cancer. He is still to this day fighting for his life. The cancer has spread to his stomach and chest and sadly he is getting to the point where he is losing the fight.In 2005 my father died of cancer. He was living with a softball sized tumor in his chest that was not operable. He died leaving a wife and 7 children.
So as you can see cancer is not a subject, let alone a life altering state, that is new to me.
When my employer, Spencer Gifts, started supporting KAB I found it refreshing that someone I worked for was willing to help out an organization that not only touch close to a subject in my life but did it in a way that related to my life style. On top of that I was given a chance to volunteer at Warped Tour (a very big aspiration of mine to work and tour with musicians/ festivals). What more could I ask for.
I had the chance to work three dates ( Fresno, Mt. View and Sacramento California). Every second working with KAB was rewarding and educating. I hardly left the tent in fear of missing anything! Speaking and connecting with everyone I came into contact with about a subject that I am well versed in and listening to the stories of others truly opened my eyes to what KAB has been doing. Its is not just a funny bracelet or a cool t-shirt that catches peoples eye… its an organization educating so many people it touches through music, arts and so much more. Just having the chance to work side by side with people who have devoted their lives to educating anyone and everyone on a scary subject… not trying to use it as a scare tactic but trying to help them realize that we can prevent and eventually eradicate this!!!
I am utterly grateful for the chance to work with KAB. I hope to have the chance to do so again many many more times.
It was truly an honor working along side KAB.
Thank You.
Jasmine H.
Alex from Therefore I Am talks a bit about the Keep A Breast Foundation and how the band is working with us to help bring an end to breast cancer. Therefore I Am have taken us on tour with them and been so sweet and amazing people to educate and influence their fans about Keep A Breast and breast cancer prevention.
Click below to see the rest for the rundown on KAB on the road from huge KAB supporter Erin Caruso as she tour manages Therefore I Am on their U.S. tour with The Wonder Years and Man Overboard.
Well hello to all of you KABbies out there! I’m Erin and I’m out on the road right now tour managing Therefore I Am on their U.S. tour with The Wonder Years and Man Overboard. I also happen to be a dabbler in the fine art of documentary photography and have shot heaps of bands on Warped Tour and other music tours. You may remember a few of my photos from Keep A Breast’s “Shot In The Pit” traveling exhibition and auction. I’m so excited to be able to lend a hand again now by bringing you stories and photos from tour as the band makes their way across the country playing music and spreading the Keep A Breast message to the masses. If you live close enough to come out to any of the shows, please make sure you stop by the merch booth to say hello and share some stories of your own. I’m looking forward to meeting you and I know the guys are too….
