MEDIA ADVISORY
February 23, 2006

WHAT’S HAPPENING:

Roswell Park’s pediatric patients and their families are taking their creative minds, art gear and paint brushes on a visit to Gilda’s Club WNY for a Paint Box Project art party. Roswell’s artists will focus on fun and creativity, and will be designing artworks which will be used exclusively to create the 2006 holiday collection of The Paint Box Project.  The cards are sold across Western New York and the nation to benefit groundbreaking research at Roswell Park, and compassionate patient care programs. Watch for the children’s spring 2006 offerings starting this April at PaintBoxProject.com.

WHERE:

Gilda’s Club WNY, 1140 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo                                                                                     

WHEN:

Thursday, February 23, 2006

• 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm

*ABOUT THE PAINT BOX PROJECT

Founded in 1990, The Paint Box Project at Roswell Park Cancer Institute uses the healing power of art to help young cancer patients and their families to express themselves during and after treatment. Artworks, which are later transformed into cards and merchandise, are drawn throughout the year at art parties hosted by the Roswell Park Alliance. Since its inception, the program has raised more than $5.7 million for cancer research and patient care. For more information, visit www.PaintBoxProject.com.    

**ABOUT GILDA’S CLUB

Gilda’s Club Western New York is a non-profit support community that offers emotional and social support as a supplement to medical care for men, women and children living with cancer, as well as their families and friends. For more information, visit www.gildasclubwny.org. 

***The Paint Box Project at Roswell Park Cancer Institute is independent from Gilda’s Club WNY. Today’s event is the first collaboration between the groups. 

 

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