Cathie Borrie


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Thursday May 27, 2010

School of Social Work
University of British Columbia
   
Colloquium Series: Bringing Research to Life

The Long Hello of Alzheimer’s

Presented by~ Cathie Borrie RN, BSN, MPH, LLB

This presentation illustrates how creative writing led a daughter into an unconventional dance with her elderly mother who had Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s—transforming a seemingly despairing experience of loss and grief into one which revealed a meaning and beauty not often highlighted in the literature and experience of dementia.
This tender and moving elegy serves as proof that love, loyalty and listening will always provide a canvas for the magical and limitless potential of a changing mind.

Thursday May 27, 2010
4:00- 5:30pm
Room 200, Jack Bell Building

2080 West Mall, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.  604-822-6872
Everyone is welcome – please join us – A no-cost event                      

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 HAPPY NEWS!
For the third time, excerpts from my forthcoming memoir have been been shortlisted in the CBC Literary Awards National Competition. 

 
 
Following closely on the heels of the CBC Shortlist Announcement, I presented an excerpt of my creative non-fiction lyrical memoir "The Other Side of Here, The Long Hello of Alzheimer's" at the International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease in Greece in March. The presentation combined a reading of an excerpt from the text with a self-produced dance-themed film clip, intended to serve as a cinematic metaphor for the essence of the writing.

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Presenter
The Long HELLO of Alzheimer's
25th International Conference of Alzheimer's Disease
March 13, 2010
Thessaloniki, Macedonia -Greece

2009

Guest Speaker
October 26, 2009
The Long HELLO of Alzheimer's
The Murray Alzheimer's Research & Education Program, University of Waterloo.
 A special presentation in honour of the 85th birthday of founder, Kenneth G. Murray
Contact: Catherine Archibald - carchibald@uwaterloo.ca
Info: http://www.marep.uwaterloo.ca/


Contributing Artist
A Book About Death, An Unbound Book About Death. (ABAD)
Exhibition at The Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery in New York City. Opening Thursday September 10, 2009.
Exhibition: 10-22 September, 2009.
http://abookaboutdeath.blogspot.com/ 

Update:
ABAD is nowpart of the MoMA collection and is being shown at various locations around the U.S. For further incarnations of the book:  http://abookaboutdeatharchive.blogspot.com/

Winner, Open Mic Contest
November 2008, The Literary Writers Conference, New York City. 
Co-sponsored by the New School Graduate Writing Program, LWC}NYC is a program of the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses [clmp], in partnership with Sobel Weber Associates, The National Book Foundation, Sterling Lord Literistic, Poets & Writers, and the PEN American Center.  http://www.clmp.org/lwc


 

 


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