National Colouring Book Day!

Celebrate National Coloring Book Day
August 2, 2016: A Day to Relax and Color
Abbotsford Regional Hospital & Cancer Centre Library
8:30 am – 3:30 pm

BC Cancer Agency and Fraser Health Library staff invite you to join us on Tuesday, August 2nd for a colouring break. Crayons, colouring pages and blank paper (for you DIYers) will be supplied; you simply need to bring yourself, and maybe a colouring buddy.

Please feel free to bring your own colouring books or to pick up a page for colouring later.  All visitors (even non-colourers) will be eligible for one of our door prizes! (and a cookie!)

We look forward to seeing you!

Anita (E-Rad), Michelle and Pamela

And because we are a library, here are a few articles!   (Thanks to Susan Morris, BCCA Library Technician, for the references.)

Sandmire DA, Gorham SR, Rankin NE, Grimm DR. The influence of art making on anxiety: A pilot study. Art Therapy. 2012 Jun 1;29(2):68-73.FHA

Rigby M, Taubert M. Art of Medicine: Colouring books for adults on the cancer ward. BMJ: British Medical Journal. 2016;352.

Curry NA, Kasser T. Can coloring mandalas reduce anxiety? Art Therapy. 2005 Jan 1;22(2):81-5.

Michelle Purdon – Librarian – Manager, Fraser Health Library Services
Anita Thompson – Library Technician – Fraser Health Library Services
Pamela Dent – Librarian – BC Cancer Agency
Abbotsford Regional Hospital and Cancer Centre Library
Phone: 604-851-4700 ext 646825