Rearranged: An Opera Singer’s Facial Cancer & Life Transposed by Kathleen Watt

A Book Talk for Healthcare Professionals Narrative Medicine Practitioners Fine Artists Writers Storytellers and Performers!

Join us Thursday May 9th 6:00 pm at Open Book (Room 203) for a conversation with author Kathleen Watt and Dr. Jon Hallberg Center for the Art of Medicine's Creative Director focusing on Watt's award-winning debut memoir REARRANGED: An Opera Singer's Facial Cancer and Life Transposed.

About REARRANGED

In lyrical prose with musical allusions clinical references and a bit of comic relief REARRANGED follows Kathleen Watt's plunge from the operatic stage into the netherworld of hospital life through the devastation of an osteogenic sarcoma tumor in her midface and out the other side. Kathleen was a soprano singing with the New York Metropolitan Opera chorus when a rare and vicious bone cancer blew her career to smithereens along with her face. Rescued by lethal toxins titanium screws and infinite kindness the life she resumed was catastrophically transposed. REARRANGED describes letting go to hold on; putting old pieces to new uses; and the unlikely arrangements that make everything work out. With a foreword by dramaturg Cori Ellison REARRANGED is not just a heart-wrenching medical odyssey but ultimately a joyous personal journey of transformation.

Registration and Book Purchase Details

Registration on Eventbrite is required.

This event is free and open to the public; however we recommend you reserve and pre-pay a book and pick it up at Open Book on the night of the event.

Purchase a Book Now: At Checkout select the ‘Add-On’ option to purchase REARRANGED. The book costs $22.00 plus tax and an Eventbrite service and processing fee of $2.17 per book.

NOTE: all books purchased during this Eventbrite registration are final non-transferable and non-refundable.

Open Book Admission Parking Transit Bikes and Accessibility

• The event will be held in Room 203 at Open Book.

• Parking: There is a free lot on the east side of the building that is available for visitors of the Open Book. If the lot is full there are metered spaces along Washington Ave. or on 10th Street S. or 11th Street S.

• Transit: Metro Transit has several routes that connect to the Open Book facility. The nearest corners are 10th Ave S and Washington Ave S and 11th Ave S and Washington Ave S.

• Bike racks: There are bike racks at the front of the building and at two locations at the back of the building.

• Accessibility: There are two designated accessible parking spots for those with disabilities at the rear of the building near the backdoor entrance and one in the side parking lot closer to the front door. The doors at the front and the back of the building have push-button access to open. An elevator in the building takes visitors to all levels of the space. There are accessible nongendered restrooms on each floor of the building.

Host or Publisher Kathleen Watt