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

ATTENTION—

• Healthcare professionals (e.g., head & neck surgeons, otolaryngologists, prosthodontists)
• Narrative medicine/health humanities practitioners
• Writers
• Performing and Fine artists —

Join us on May 9th at 6:00 pm (in Room 203) for a reading, discussion, Q&A, and book signing at , in partnership with the University of Minnesota Medical School’s Center for the Art of Medicine.

Author Kathleen Watt in conversation with Dr. Jon Hallberg
will discuss her award-winning debut memoir, , joined in conversation by , Creative Director, University of Minnesota Center for the Art of Medicine.

Books may be pre-paid & reserved here at the time of registration.

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. This heart-wrenching medical odyssey becomes a joyous personal journey of transformation.

Registration and Book Purchase Details

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 & an Eventbrite service and processing fee of $2.17/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 University of Minnesota Center for the Art of Medicine