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Mixed Match: Jeff Chiba-Stearns

Sun. February 5th 2017 Capitol 6 Victoria BC

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Mixed Match: Jeff Chiba-Stearns

Canada is an incredibly diverse country. Multiculturalism is our watch-word and ...
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Sun. February 5th 2017 + Add to Calendar Capitol 6 (All Ages)
6:30pm

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Jeff Chiba-Stearns

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Canada is an incredibly diverse country. Multiculturalism is our watch-word and our ethnic backgrounds aren't supposed to limit us. But sometimes they do. With the multiracial community becoming one of the fastest growing demographics in North America, being mixed race is no longer just about an identity, it can be a matter of life and death.

For any patients with blood cancer, finding a bone marrow donor match can be the key. But for mixed-race sufferers the search is even more incredibly hard and disheartening. Not only are ethnicities such as Asian or African under-represented in the available databases, mixed-race profiles are even rarer, making matches even rarer still.

There ARE happy endings. That's because there are people making a difference by registering an increasing number of these elusive potential donors. Mixed Match is Jeff Chiba-Stearns' own experience with some of those stories.

Mixed Match is Jeff's follow-up to One Big Happa Family, where he looked at the cultural side of his own mixed-match family. Taking this look at the corresponding biological side, he finds once again that sharing what makes one unique can make a better world.

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Capitol 6
805 Yates St
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