Notes to My Prostate

Notes To My Prostate

written by,John J. Guiney Yallop

Poetry Reading and Chapbook Launch

Thursday, February 18, 2010 at 7:00 p.m.

The Box of Delights Bookshop

466 Main Street, Wolfville, Nova Scotia

Notes To My Prostate, a poetry chapbook of twenty-five poems written after my diagnosis with prostate cancer, through surgery, and to recovery, is now available from The Box of Delights Bookshop, 466 Main Street, Wolfville, NS B4P 1E2, Phone: 902-542-9511, E-mail: boxofdelights@ns.aliantzinc.ca, Website: www.boxofdelightsbooks.com (Two dollars from the the sale of each chapbook will be donated to prostate cancer reasearch or to a support group for men diagnosed with prostate cancer.)

Dr. John J. Guiney Yallop is a parent, a partner, and a poet. Dr. Guiney Yallop’s research includes poetic inquiry, narrative inquiry, autoethnography, and performative social science. He uses these methodologies to explore identities, communities, and emotional landscapes. This book of poetry is a collection based on his recent experiences with prostate cancer. Dr. Guiney Yallop is an Assistant Professor in the School of Education at Acadia University.

"Many men diagnosed with prostate cancer will recognize themselves in John J. Guiney Yallop’s Notes To My Prostate. Many men aren’t very good at expressing the feelings John describes; they will find strength in his humorous and emotional lines." – Dick Groot, photographer, and founding member of Eastern Valley Prostate Cancer Support Group

"With a poet's precision, John cuts to the visceral heart of the experience of prostate cancer in poems that resonate with poignant loss, courageous hope, and unwavering love."–Carl Leggo, poet and professor, University of British Columbia

"How do you deal with your own mortality, and with losing a part of yourself that is identified with your gender? John J. Guiney Yallop answers in ways that will surprise you, and with a deft economy of words." – John Oughton, author of Counting Out the Millennium

"In experiencing John's work we are privileged witnesses to his deepest thoughts about life and love, loss and survival and one can only wonder at the things we all hold and may need one day to release and let go. John Guiney Yallop writes notes to his prostate with spare poetic honesty and profound courage "an ocean of meaning" and offers it out to the universe so that we all might learn."
– Cheryl McLean, Publisher, The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice http://www.ijcaip.com

Two dollars from the price of $9.95 will be donated
to prostate cancer research or to a support group
for men diagnosed with prostate cancer.

Copies available: The Box of Delights Bookshop, 466 Main Street,
Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada, B4P 1E2.
Phone: 902-542-9511 E-mail: boxofdelights@ns.aliantzinc.ca Online: www.boxofdelightsbooks.com

John Guiney Yallop's work will also be featured in the upcoming book "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change"

Research Text, Creative Arts Interdisciplinary Practice, Call for Abstracts

CAIP, Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice Research Series

Publisher: Detselig Temeron Press

Editor, Cheryl McLean, Publisher IJCAIP

International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice

Associate Editor, Robert Kelly Ph.D.

Call for Abstracts

Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice

Research for Community Change Across Cultures

The CAIP, Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice research text series was launched with the inaugural text “Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change” published by Detselig Temeron Books, Editor Cheryl McLean, Associate Editor Robert Kelly, scheduled for release in April 2010. (http://www.creativeartpractice.blogspot.com )"Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, Inquiries for Hope and Change" introduced the emerging field with illustrative examples, demonstrating the breadth and depth of the applications of the creative arts in research action and interdisciplinary practice. About the book

New Call for Abstracts:

In the second research text in the series, "Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice Research for Community Change Across Cultures" there will be a particular focus on arts and community based research that transforms and empowers individuals and communities. We are interested in arts and research within neighbourhoods and cities, across continents and beyond borders. Currently we are seeking illustrative and accessible research accounts of new work offering hope for change across cultures and communities locally and globally.

These are a just a few of the themes and subjects areas of special interest:

• arts research and community based research CBR/ arts and participatory methods
• arts in research and practice re-building or bridging communities in conflict (visual arts, dance, performance, narrative/poetry, installation etc.)
• arts in research and interdisciplinary practice across cultures for global change
• ethnographic/oral history field studies leading to arts for social justice, anti-oppression work, empowerment
• arts in research for improved health and quality of life, poverty, homelessness, environment, disability, youth, crime, aging, urban studies

• arts in research used in distinctive and innovative ways, transformative new methods and creative approaches to help investigate, explore, articulate and communicate research findings while working actively within communities and beyond borders to foster change.

Submissions for Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice

Research for Community Change Across Cultures

Send an abstract (max. l pg.) as a Word attachment, with a short bio and a brief list of references to CherylMcLean@ijcaip.com with “submission Research for Community Change Across Cultures” in the subject line.

Deadline: March 20, 2010 Selected candidates will be contacted with a request for full articles and additional information will be provided at that time. Due date for full articles will be e/o May 2010. Please be aware that we are seeking research related articles.

Graduate School of Creative Art Therapies, Haifa University, Tenure Track Position

Invitation to Submit Candidacy for a Tenure Track Position or a Sabbatical

Graduate School of Creative Art Therapies

Haifa University

The Faculty of Health and Welfare Sciences and the Faculty of Education are happy to announce the opening of a search for candidates for a tenure track academic position or a sabbatical in The Graduate School of Creative Art Therapies at Haifa University, Israel for the 2010-2011 Academic Year.

The candidates will be required to teach in the Masters Degree program, as well as develop research programs, obtain, research grants, and supervise advanced level students within the courses of study.

The position is open to candidates having the necessary qualifications

Requirements:

• Completed PhD or confirmation of PhD by 1.9.2009
• Relevant academic background in therapy and in the course of study.
• Peer reviewed publications in scientific journals.
• Teaching experience in Hebrew.
• Proven Master Level (Thesis) supervision of research.

Candidates are requested to submit the following documents.

• Introductory letter containing a description of areas of research, proposed future research plans, and a description of your potential contribution to the School.
• Detailed Curriculum Vitae including list of publications, previous places of employment, teaching experience including the course subjects, participation in conferences, research grants. The format of the CV should be according to that listed on the School’s web site:

http://artherapy.haifa.ac.il

• Documents or diplomas confirming degrees in the relevant orientation
• 1-3 publications
• Names and electronic addresses of three recommenders.

This announcement is open to women and men without distinction of religion, ethnic origin, and/or age.

The materials should be sent by snail mail to The Graduate School of Creative Art Therapies, Haifa University, Har Hacarmel, Haifa, Israel and by email by March 6, 2009 to:

Professor Rachel Lev

Head of Search Committee

rlev@univ.haifa.ac.il

Playing for Change, Music Around the World

To celebrate the season we would like to share with you this video with music from the award winning documentary "Playing for Change". Featured is a cover of the Ben E. King classic by musicians around the world adding their part to the song as it travelled the globe.

Community Based Research Tells Street Stories for Change

I recently came across this article in The University of Victoria Alumni Magazine,
Torch at http://web.uvic.ca/torch/torch2009f/feature_4.htm about Dr. Bernie Pauly and her community based research. Once again we learn how creative community based approaches and participative methods (story, photography, video) can help offer a place for human stories and lived experiences to be voiced and witnessed.CM

From the website:


"Since completing her PhD and joining the faculty of the School of Nursing, (Bernie) Pauly’s remained directly involved in homelessness: leading community-based research projects that engage community groups; playing an instrumental role in developing public policy, primarily through former mayor Alan Lowe’s 2007 Task Force on Homelessness; and currently as chair of the research and evaluation working group of the Greater Victoria Coalition to End Homelessness, which aims to end homelessness in the region by 2018."

"At the core of her approach to research Pauly tries “to understand the solutions from the perspective of people who have experienced homelessness. Because they have lived it.” A new community-based research project that she’s initiated — Street Stories — aims to do exactly that."

"A group of people who are, or have been, homeless will use photography and videotape to document their experiences and, essentially, create their own research data. Pauly hopes it will empower them to communicate the everyday challenges of being homeless."

Quotes from The University of Victoria Alumni Magazine, Torch, Autumn 2009,
Volume 30, Number 2

Physician Speaks Out About Universal Healthcare

Sunday, November 8, 2009

In issue 8 of The International Journal of The Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice, IJCAIP, "Physicians Speak Out About Arts and Medicine," we were pleased to feature the article "Stories and Society, Using Literature to Teach Medical Students About Public Health and Social Justice" by Dr. Martin Donohoe MD, FACP, Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Community Health, Portland State University and Senior Physician of Internal Medicine at The Kaiser Sunnyside Medical Centre.


In this video Dr. Donohoe speaks about the merits of a Universal Health Care System.

Posted by Cheryl McLean at 9:53 AM

Feedback October 09 Issue IJCAIP Physicians Speak Out About Arts and Medicine

"Many thanks for the link and the mention. We are truly indebted."

Dr. Verna Yiu

University of Alberta Medicine and Health

"I am really looking forward to the other commentaries. A brief scan of them illustrates how much is going on in the Medical Humanities in Canada."

Martin Donohoe, MD FACP

"This issue looks very interesting thank you. I've also sent the link to David Rosen MD, (Texas A & M University) co-author of The Healing Spirit of Haiku.

Joel Weishaus

"Wow!!! An amazing source of knowledge.

Thanks."

Michelle Buckle

"Thank you! Issue 8 of IJCAIP is wonderful (both content wise and visually)! I enjoyed the entire issue..reading about the ways other physicians are incorporating the arts/literature into medical education was interesting, informative and inspiring. I am honoured to be included in this issue."

Seema Shah, MD, MSPH


See our most recent issue of IJCAIP "Physicians Speak Out About Arts and Medicine"

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