Hi everyone!

We recently had a performance of The Gisele Show at Belding High School in Belding, Michigan. I was the cancer keynote speaker featured during their Cancer Awareness Week.

In particular, I always love being a motivational speaker for youth audiences, especially adolescent and teenager girls. Why? Body image and body acceptance! Holla if you’re happy with your body! (Hey, why’d it get so quiet out there?)

Kids get overwhelmed with media images and messages about what their bodies are ‘supposed’ to look like. I shudder to think about all the pressure put on them to achieve and maintain some completely unrealistic and damaging physical ‘ideal’.

That’s why I love sharing The Gisele Show with them. Yeah, a funny, REAL story about my cancer experience, with a focus on body acceptance after my mastectomies. And there I am, standing on stage in live performance, with my boy-chest (clothed, of course; it’s not that kind of show!). What!?? You mean a woman can be happy and creative without double D’s??!!! It’s true!

My secret plan is that by wrapping that message in a funny, fast paced, upbeat show, I can sneak in some self-acceptance to the kids in the house. So, shhhhh, Holla quiet!

Lots of love,

Jonna

Potential penury in Turkey, deathbed vows and a Cleeff Hangerrrr!

Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010

Time: 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Location: UC Davis Cancer Center
4501 X St., Sacramento
(Click here to map directions)

This special event is free and open to the public

Please RSVP to Patti Robinson
(916) 734-0823 or e-mail
(Seating is limited to the first 150 guests)

Link to UC Davis online calendar listing

Mad Lively is proud to announce the exclusive representation of the popular comedy duo Helmut & Giselle. The two traveling performers are in the USA for a limited time and are available for bookings at your event.

And audiences love them!

Helmut & Giselle may be available for your next special event!

Follow this link for booking information!

AMC community relations director Nancy Stewart, Dr. Virginia Borges, AMC executive director Alice Norton and Jonna Tamases at the Women's Event in June 2010.

The First Annual Women’s Event on June 9, 2010 raised $14,000 and generated challenge grants for UCCC,s Young Women’s Breast Cancer Translational Research Program. AMC supporters Walter and Laura Dear challenged guests to match their personal donation of $10,000, and donors are rising to the challenge. The event featured Jonna Tamases’s one-woman play, “Jonna’s Body, Please Hold,” which chronicles her life as a three-time cancer survivor. Her funny, touching performance was well received.