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MAY 2010
Frequency Specific Microcurrent Seminar
Date: April 30 - May 2, 2010
Location: Crowne Plaza Orlando Airport, Orlando, FL
Cost: $795.00
Phone: 1-407-856-0100
Durham DH1 5TU Exhibition by Juliet Chenery-Robinson called 'A Diagnosis of Exclusion'
Date: Saturday, April 24 - Sunday, June 26
Location: The Durham Light Infantry Museum and Durham Art
Gallery, Aykley Heads
Website: http://www.durham.gov.uk/dli
Description:
Juliet's work featured on the front cover of the MEA's quarterly ME Essential magazine'
(Spring 2009 edition, and in a double-page spread inside). Her series of photographic
portraits highlight the alienation, social exclusion and loss of identity faced by people
with ME. Accompanying Juliet's show will be an exhibition by Rosy Martin, which examines
the overlaps between photography, memory, identity and unconscious processes. For more
information, please visit the museum and gallery website.
Art Exhibition, "What is ME?"
Date: Saturday, May 1 - Saturday, May 29 (not Bank
Holidays)
Location: The Magic Cafe', Magdalen Road, East Oxford OX
4 1RQ
Time: Mon-Fri, 9am-6pm
Description:
Staged by Oxfordshire ME Group for Action (OMEGA) following its recent competition to find
artworks which best demonstrate what it is like to live with the illness. The exhibition
is part of the 'Oxford Artweeks' event. The café is an open relaxed space specials in a
vegetarian menu, and there are a few comfortable chairs. For more information, visit
http://www.oxnet.org.uk/omega
Richmond and Kingston ME Support Group Information Stall
Date: May 8
Location: Outside the Bentalls Centre, Clarence Street,
Kingston, Surrey
Time: 10.30am-2.30pm
Description: Richmond and Kingston ME Support Group
information stall. Please come and have a chat with us, or take away some information
leaflets. The nearest car parks and toilets are in the Bentalls Centre and at John Lewis,
and several buses stop just outside John Lewis. For more information about the group,
please phone 07984 860 309 (leave a message and your call will be returned, or visit
the group website.
Meeting of the US Federal Government Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Advisory Committee
Date: May 10
Location: Department of Health and Human Services; Room
800, Hubert H. Humphrey Building; 200 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20201
Time: 9am-5pm
Description: Meeting of the US Federal Government
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Advisory Committee. The agenda will be posted on the
CFSAC Web site, when it is
finalised. The meeting will be broadcast over the Internet as a real-time streaming video.
It will also be recorded and archived on the CFSAC Web site for viewers to watch at their
convenience.
SOFA: South Okanagan FM-ME Association FM Related Speech
Date: May 11, 2010
Location: Penticton Health Centre, Penticton, BC
Time: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Email:
sofa_fm_meok@hotmail.com
Description: May 12th is the official FM-ME/CFS
AWARE DAY Internationally - thus we are having a Special Speaker on the 11th of May at
Penticton Health Centre, Penticton, BC - Dr. Critland - Sleep Specialist from Kelowna
Hospital
Speach: Sleep and FM-ME/CFS
Fees: $5 Entrance FEE, $10 to obtain SOFA Membership
for 2010 with Benefits List.
ME Awareness Rally
Date: May 12
Location: Parliament Square, Westminster
Time: 1pm-6pm
Description: Anyone wanting to find out more can read
about it on Facebook
here.
Annual 'Just Walk' Event
Date: May 15
Location: Goodwood Racecourse, West Sussex, and then
across the South Downs
Description: Annual 'Just Walk' event to raise money for
the ME Association (and other charities). Select one of four routes (60km across to
Arundel, entry fee £65; a new 40km route, £55; 20km, £45 or, for the
under 12s, £10); and a new 10km route open to adults for £15, or free for the
under 12s). Once you've paid the registration fee, all your sponsorship money goes to
the ME Association. The fee covers a range of support services and, on the longer routes,
snacks and meals. For more information about the event, please visit the
Just Walk website. And don't
forget to email Tony Britton. You need
JavaScript enabled to view it at the ME Association for sponsor forms, etc.
National Fibromyalgia Association Commemorates National Fibromyalgia Awareness Day with
"3rd Annual Walk of Fame" and Concert at Cal State Fullerton
Date: May 15, 2010
Location: California State University Fullerton (CSUF)
Contact: Karen Wiley at 714-921-0150, kwiley@fmaware.org
Description: Free day-long activities that include a
Wellness Fair, educational seminars, 1K and 5K walk. In the evening, R&B singer and new
NFA spokesperson, Tony Terry, whose wife has fibromyalgia, will perform a special concert
during the closing "Lights of Hope" candle lighting ceremony. Terry will also debut a new
song from the National Fibromyalgia Association dedicated especially to the over 10
million people affected by fibromyalgia in the U.S. and 3-5 percent worldwide. "Make
Fibromyalgia Visible" is the NFA's theme for this year's National Fibromyalgia
Awareness Day, officially observed on May 12. Awareness Day is designed to increase
awareness and understanding of fibromyalgia – a chronic pain disorder usually
characterized by chronic widespread pain, multiple tender points, abnormal pain
processing, sleep disturbances, fatigue and often psychological distress.
Schedule of Events at Cal State Fullerton:
Noon: Registration for Walk of Fame opens
1pm – 8:30pm: Wellness Fair, Health screenings, family activities, massages,
food & product samples, services, fibromyalgia wellness information and much more.
1:00 – 5:00pm: Educational Seminars and Wellness Activities for health care
professionals, people suffering from fibromyalgia and their care givers & friends.
5:00pm: 1K & 5K Walk
6:30pm: Dinner
7:30pm: Closing "Lights of Hope" Ceremony with Special Appearance by R&B singer
Tony Terry.
Irish ME/CFS Association, ME Awareness Month Talk
Date: May 29
Location: Mount Herbert Hotel, Herbert Road, off
Lansdowne Road, Dublin 4, Republic of Ireland
Time: 1pm
Website: www.irishmecfs.org
Email:
info@irishmecfs.org. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Description: Irish ME/CFS Association, ME Awareness
Month talk. Speaker: Dr William Weir, ME medical expert and a consultant in infectious
diseases, who sees patients privately in Harley Street, London, and in Northern Ireland.
Admission 5 Euro (on the door). All welcome. For more information: Irish ME/CFS
Association, PO Box 3075, Dublin 2. Tel: (Dublin) 2350965 [From the UK: 0035312350965]
JUNE 2010
Frequency Specific Microcurrent Seminar
Date: June 04 - June 06
Location: Sheraton Gateway Hotel Atlanta Airport,
Atlanta, GA
Cost: $795.00
Phone: 1-770-997-1100
Dorset Art Weeks
Date: June 6
Location: 41 Wyke Road, Wyke Regis, Dorset DT4 9NR
Time: 10am-4pm
Description: Dorset Art Weeks contribution to the Dorset
ME Support Group. View/buy photography, jewelry and crafts made by the Weymouth Link
Group. Stall holders will make a contribution to the Dorset ME Support Group.
International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society Educational Meeting
Date: June 12
Location: Royal College of Obstetricians and
Gynecologists, 27 Sussex Place, Regents Park, London NW1 4RG
Description:
International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society Educational Meeting 'Basic Lyme: an
introduction to testing and treatment of tick-borne disease, for medical professionals'.
Speakers include course organizer Sarah Chissell MRCOG; Dr Robert C Bransfield MD,
president of the society; Dr Raphael B Stricker MD; Dr Christian Perronne MD PhD; Dr Leo J
Shea PhD; Dr Carsten Nicolaus MD; Dr Ann F Corson MD; D David C Martz MD; and Dr Richard I
Horowitz MD. Full programme and registration details.
OET - IELTS Conference Melbourne
Date: June 24-25
Time:9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Location: Victoria Hotel, Melbourne
Website: http://oetworkshop.com/
E-Mail:
info@oetworkshop.com
Description: Two day conference focusing on
skills/strategies to pass the Occupational English Test / IELTS Academic Test - required
prerequisite for medical registration in Australia.
Frequency Specific Microcurrent Seminar
Date: June 25 2010 - July 04 2010
Location: Dublin, Ireland Core (2 Parts), National
Training Centre
Website:
http://www.ntc.ie
Phone: +353 01 887777
Frequency Specific Microcurrent Seminar
Date: June 25 2010 - June 27 2010
Location:Crowne Plaza Redondo Beach & Marina Hotel,
Redondo Beach, CA
Cost: $795.00
Phone: 1-310-318-8888
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