Learn how to do your breast self exam, and the differences between harmful and non-harmful lumps.

Ohhhhh Warped Tour!!! Here we are again, Keep A Breast’s 10th year on the Vans Warped Tour and already half way through. We are out on the road with our traveling education booth hitting a new city everyday and educating everyone on ways to prevent breast cancer. We are doing everything we can to teach every concert goer the proper way to do a self breast exam in a fun way that will help them remember to check once a month! We are meeting such great people everyday from the kids at the show, to the crew, and then the bands themselves, all of who are being very supportive. Sure the weather has been rough with the tornado warnings, hurricanes, rain and heat advisories but hey, we are still on the road to preventing breast cancer in the lives of each and every person we cross paths with! Warped tour is amazing in so many ways, mainly because of the countless opportunities we have to meet so many young people across the country. Cancer in general is a very tough subject…however, with the help of our I Heart Boobies Campaign, young people are able to open their minds with a bit lighter spirit, talk about it with their friends and family and ultimately start making daily changes to better their health and well being. This summer we have two great campaigns that we encourage all to be involved in. One is the Imagine If campaign and the other, This Is My Story, both mind opening and coping campaigns that are intended to support and enlighten young minds.

Jake from Mayday Parade

Reel Big Fish

In the tent, Keep A Breast is joined by the lovely girls skate company Skatera. They offer a place and products to create DIY shorts and tees and also win other cool prizes. Also in the tent we have the Girlz Garage staple table with their three give away Daisy Rock glitter guitars and The Chop Shop! We are so lucky to be surrounded by such powerful and optimistic women! But lets face it; the punk rock summer camp wouldn’t be the same without the boys. They rock the bracelets and tees with full support for Keep A Breast. Between the shout outs on stage from bands like Pierce The Veil and the photo documentation from All American Rejects we can say nothing but THANK YOU to all the bands on Warped tour for being so amazing! We can’t wait to meet all of you during the second half of this tour! We’ve had signings in the tent with everyone from Mayday Parade to Reel Big Fish and you never know who you’ll run into while stopping by our tent! Come out and see us at the GIRLZ GARAGE at Vans Warped Tour 2010!

Four Year Strong

Anyone can become a Keep A Breast Foundation Member with as little as a $25 donation! But if you find us out on the road at our traveling education booth you can become a KAB member for only $15! Becoming a member will help increase breast cancer awareness among young people so they are better equipped to make choices and develop habits that will benefit their long-term health and well being. Your tax deductible donation will help eradicate breast cancer by supporting our efforts of exposing young people to methods of prevention, early detection and support.

By joining our membership you are also automatically entered to win amazing prizes! This summer Keep A Breast has teamed up with SJC Drum and Venture Guitars for some amazing prizes including a SJC custom drum head and Venture custom guitar. Hurry up and become a member today!

Hey guys its Shana & Ant, your friendly Keep A Breast volunteers from the Zumiez Couch Tour!

We are going on our fifth week of tour and we have had some crazy adventures and experienced some erratic weather to say the least. At this point we have hit all of our west coast and southern events, and the kids have had some amazing responses to our Imagine If… Campaign!

We have also had some extra time to see some family and friends along the way and have received overwhelming positive reaction to our work with KAB. It seems like everyone we meet wants to get involved, including some of the bands and skate teams who have joined us on the tour. We have had the opportunity to meet up with the bands Just Surrender and Hit the Lights, and the skate teams for Lakai, DGK, and Volcom. Thanks to all those guys for rockin the KAB wear and being all around awesome dudes!

Throughout our journey we have been trying to meet up with artists to each paint 1 of 12 KAB skateboard decks to be raffled off at the end of tour. We met up with our buddy Mike O’Farrell who is an awesome tattoo artist in Colorado who so generously donated his time and skills to one of these decks. We’re looking forward to seeing what other artists we can bump into to get crafty with us over the next 2 weeks.

Gorilla gardening with the seed bombs from GreenAid has been amazing! We have been throwing these little balls of clay and aggressive growing plants all over this country to help reduce our carbon footprint! We have even recruited a few gorilla gardening pirates to help us make a difference as we go along.

Follow our adventures on facebook.com/keepabreast and twitter.com/keepabreast we are posting daily blurbs on where we are and what were doing. We have come a long way and have a long way to go but its been a truly beautiful experience so far. We are looking forward to seeing what lies ahead on the East Coast for the last few events. If you have missed us on the road or just can’t get enough – Here is live video feed from today’s event!

People on tour know us from our Spencer's Campaign!

Greetings from the road! My name is Andria and I’m your Keep A Breast Ambassador for the Country Throwdown Tour. Today was the first day of the tour and I was unsure what to expect as the country genre isn’t something I’m knowledgeable about. All of the concert attendees were older than those at our usual Warped Tours, wore lots of cowboy boots and hats, and started drinking before I even thought about eating lunch. This is a big change from the tight jeans, v-neck t’s, and neon colors that I’ve seen for years on Warped Tour. Despite crossing over into completely unfamiliar territory one thing remained the same — the support for Breast Cancer Prevention and Education. Everybody that stopped by the Keep A Breast traveling education booth dawned a smile, and was excited to learn from our breast informational pillows. Mothers brought their daughters over to get Check Your Self cards, and fathers bought bracelets, and t-shirts proudly. I’m excited to see what the next five weeks will bring and can’t wait to spread the important message of early detection and checking yourself all over the country world!

CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS! Sign up to volunteer at the Keep A Breast traveling Education Booth. We will need two volunteers at BOTH the first ever COUNTRY THROWDOWN TOUR 5/12-6/20 and our 10th year on the VANS WARPED TOUR 6/24-8/15. Sign up at for our email list on the home page and check the box “to learn more about volunteer opportunities”

Thank you!!  We look forward to meeting you!!

xo

Keep A Breast

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!

xo
erica

SXSW Pure Volume HouseMarch 17 – March 21
504 Trinity Street St Austin, TX
SXSW Alternative Press Showcase March 18
Emo’s 603 Red River Austin, TX
KAB Presents the Madina Lake UK/Europe Tour March 25 – April 17
United Kingdom, France, Holland, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria & Italy
Bamboozle Left March 27 & 28
Los Angeles, CA
Angels & Airwaves Tour April 5 – May 30
US & Canada Tour
Bamboozle Right April 30 – May 2
East Rutherford, New Jersey
Coachella Festival April 16 – 18
Indio, CA
Country Throwdown Tour May12 – June 20th
US Warped Tour June 24 – Aug 15 ( www.warpedtour.com )
US & Canada

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.

Speakeasy Tiger closed out 2009 with an amazing Keep A Breast Music For Awareness show in Denver, Colorado. As a fan of theirs, I was super stoked to have them approach KAB to do an event to benefit the cause and educate their community and peers. They successfully raised $720 for the organization and created one of a kind pieces of art to help raise funds. The band will also be on the Vans Warped Tour this summer, so be sure to check them out! I have included some words from Kyle, the lead singer for the band below.

I am so thankful for such inspiring young people that truly want to make a difference in the health and well being of others.
xo erica

“The show was a wonderful experience. We created a really intimate setting for everyone to really take focus on why we were throwing the event. I am proud to say we reached our goal for KAB with the help of our dear friend Rachel Yarbrough, who created custom canvas pieces with the silhouette of a woman with lyrics from one of our songs “I can feel it in my chest”. We sold each one with the hope that everyone would walk away with a much deeper awareness on the truth’s of Breast Cancer. Making KAB apart of our music was especially important to me because my mother was diagnosed with cancer when I was 10. Watching Breast Cancer affect the ones you love from a personal level shows how dangerous it can be and how easily it can be prevented if you check yourself and stay in tune with your body. Our great friend Alicia Garrison went through a step by step process on how to check yourself for our audience to see. Not only were we engaged but everyone who attended was wonderfully receptive to the information being shared. I am so hopeful when I see programs like KAB available to young artists like ourselves. With influence comes great responsibility and we are so happy to have the ability to share with others through our music. I am excited for the future and excited to promote good health for all of us! Thank you so much to a great show!” Kyle Simmons of Speakeasy Tiger

The Vans Warped Tour is helping the Keep A Breast Foundation win $20,000 through SocialVibe this month with Givapalooza. Givapalooza is a month-long competition for 10 charities on SocialVibe.com to compete and reach their goal before another one does. If the goal is reached by December 31st, SocialVibe will double the donation amount. On top of that, SocialVibe will be donating to the teams who reach their goals first.  This is where you come in.

Our goal is reached by completed activities on Keep A Breast’s socialvibe page. The more activities you complete, the more points you get, the quicker we make it to our goal! Go to socialvibe.com/kab to start completing activities and help us win $20K for Keep A Breast!

We are honored to be a charity on Social Vibe. Social Vibe believes that empowering people to leverage their influence online can create positive impact for themselves, their brands, and their communities.   Thier site allows you to Get Sponsored by your favorite brands on your social profiles while earning points for the reward of your choice.  Raising ‘points’ mean donation dollars for Keep A Breast. KAB and Social Vibe believe that making a real difference is possible without making a real difference to your bank account.

We were happy to be able to give out two sets of tickets to the Warped Tour Anniversary Movie. Here is a photo of one of our Vibers with her brother and best friend celebrating the night away.