Cancer Storytelling: Empowering Patients and Caregivers

Join us to discover the power of storytelling. Attendees will learn techniques for sharing personal cancer experiences—whether you're a patient, caregiver, or advocate. Through engaging workshops across art forms, this event offers a space to express the complexity of the human experience and create connections. 

• 11:30 Be Here With You: A Documentary About Bryant Lin’s Cancer Story and film discussion with Anny Cheng, Cinematographer, Frish Brandt, Letter Midwife, and Bryant Lin, MD, MEng, Director of Stanford Medical Humanities & the Arts, Co-founder and Co-director of Stanford Center for Asian Health Research and Education
• 12-1   Lunch will be provided
• 12:15 Mom's Cancer: Talk & Workshop with Brian Fies, Creator of The Last Mechanical Monster, A Fire Story, Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow?, and Mom's Cancer
• 1:15   How to Draw an Animated Human Skeleton with Lauren Toomer, MFA, Visual Artist & Teacher
• 2:15   Lasting Letters with Frish Brandt, Letter Midwife and Using ChatGPT to Make a Cancer Blasting Video Game with Atticus Lin
• 3:15   Cancer Storytelling from patients and caregivers
• 4:15   Closing 

Saturday, November 16
11:30 am – 4:30 pm

Stanford Health Library
211 Quarry Road, 2nd Floor
Palo Alto, CA 94304
650-725-8400 

Presented by Stanford Medical Humanities & the Arts in partnership with the Center for Asian Health Research and Education, Stanford Health Library, and the Cancer Survivorship Program at Stanford Cancer Institute.