The aim of the event is to enhance awareness and understanding of ovarian cancer and all its challenges and complexities, as well as to enlist help in the fight against the disease. In its efforts, the local volunteer group has partnered with the nonprofit Ovations for the Cure.
As the color pink is associated with the fight against breast cancer, the color teal has been chosen nationally to represent ovarian cancer awareness.
Recently, the Newburyport group made more than 200 large teal bows to display in area homes and businesses.
Two quilts also will be on display at the Firehouse, one from the Ovarian Cancer Survivors’ Quilt Project, which has traveled the country, and one from the quilt project at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Texas.
Wednesday’s event at the Firehouse begins with a wine and cheese reception at 6 p.m., followed by the free presentations and film beginning at 7 p.m.
Call 978-462-7336 or visit www.firehouse.org.
POW-WOW IN HAVERHILL: The 23d annual Intertribal Pow-wow and Crafts Festival is at Plug Pond in Haverhill this weekend.
Sponsored by the Massachusetts Center for Native American Awareness and the Haverhill Recreation Department, the event is the organization’s longest-running pow-wow.
The goal is to share Native American culture and traditions from various regions.
The festival includes music and dancing, drumming and singing, storytelling, craft-making, games, and Native American food. Visitors can also watch as a tipi and wickiup are erected and can visit inside the tipi.
New this year is a presentation by David Sanipass, a Native American storyteller who makes flutes and plays them.
Also added this year are 30-minute educational workshops by Claudia Fox Tree. The discussions explore assumptions that have been made about Native Americans, and how stereotypes are learned and myths perpetuated. The workshops are geared toward adults and upper-grade students.
