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October is not only month for capricious manicure And plaidit is also Breast Cancer Awareness Month. And one day in October is particularly significant: October 13, Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day.
And one initiative has helped awareness of the day go mainstream: an annual event that shines a light on the cause—literally. For #LightUpMBCNearly 300 monuments in all 50 states and more than a dozen countries around the world are illuminated in green, pink and turquoise. Breast Cancer Awareness Ribbon Beyond Pink.
To mark the occasion, actress, singer and songwriter Gina Naomi Baez, a three-time cancer survivor, and motivational speaker Tami Eagle Bowling, living with metastatic breast cancer, will host #LightUpMBC Live, a livestream event that will raise awareness of incurable metastatic breast cancer and will raise funds for research into metastatic breast cancer.
And this year you can watch #LightUpMBC Live on the #LightUpMBC Live channel. Glamor! Join us right here at 8:00 pm EST/5:00 pm PT on Monday, October 13th.
The event will feature inspiring stories of MBC's successful people and the people who love them, as well as performances by Broadway actor Stephen Grant Douglas; Anne Hampton Callaway, Tony Award-nominated singer, songwriter, actress and breast cancer survivor; Broadway actress Mamie Parris; platinum-selling singer-songwriter Em Beichold, singer-songwriter e.woolf; Grammy Award-winning musician Bootsy Collins and his wife, performer Patti Collins; and singer-songwriter Jess Lamb.
