Join Relay For LIfe's Slam Cancer event Friday in Attleboro

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Link to Slam Cancer advance and essays online at The Sun Chronicle's website:
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ATTLEBORO --- The 24th annual Relay For Life of Greater Attleboro, in partnership with the Attleboro Public Library, will hold its second annual Slam Cancer event at 6 p.m. Friday, May 20 at Balfour Riverwalk Park in the downtown.

Slam Cancer will feature the authors of original poems and essays about how cancer has affected them reading their original works. Submissions were sought from the public throughout April.
You can view this year’s Slam Cancer submissions at thesunchronicle.com.
The event also will feature luminaria being lit in honor of cancer survivors or in memory of cancer victims, music by popular Attleboro disc jockey Nate Adams and a performance by a bagpiper from the Colonial Pipers Bagpipe Band.
Slam Cancer also will provide information about this year’s upcoming relay, which will return to its overnight format after the last two years, when the COVID-19 pandemic limited the relay’s activities.
In 2020, the relay became a virtual-only presentation, while an abbreviated drive-thru event was held in 2021 in addition to the inaugural Slam Cancer event.
The relay will be held, starting at 6 p.m. Friday, June 17 at the Norton Middle School, located across from St. Mary’s Church on Route 123 in Norton, for this year only while Norton High School’s turf field is being installed.
The relay will conclude on Saturday morning June 18, following a closing ceremony, which will start after 9 a.m.
The Greater Attleboro relay draws teams and participants from most area communities, including Attleboro, North Attleboro, Mansfield, Norton, Plainville, Rehoboth, Seekonk and Wrentham.
For information about how to form a team for the relay, to join a team or to volunteer, go to: www.relayforlife.org/greaterattleboroma



 

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