Pemberton pics!

Pemberton festival 2008.
Rolling Stone exclaimed that "the first annual Pemberton Festival will gladly take the title of next Glastonbury." and Keep A Breast was happy to be there for the official launch of Keep A Breast Canada. That's right! KAB is now a Canadian non-profit organization. We were invited by Emergen-C to also launch Emergen-C PINK! ( the flavor that benefits KAB). This flavor has been selling in the US since last October and  has raised $100,000 to date for KAB!! Pemberton was an amazing event from top to bottom, I'm excited that our first big event in Canada was received so well. Special thanks to Michelle from the Pemberton Staff, The entire Pemberton staff and local community, my brother and sister, and the entire Emergen-C team!

 

our tent.

we made barbie breast casts! and my brother had to first give them a proper music festival hair cut and color.

Our host Richard from Emergen-C gets into the spirit and paints a mini barbie breast cast! with a cool psychedelic  theme.

these girls painted.. I love you mom! and a cool face on the mini casts!

some casts in our tent.

We had a Pink! lemonade slushie machine! 

and packets to make sure everyone stayed hydrated.

friends love boobies!

my brother thinks he's funny. He is..

Gillian, Christina, Kate and me.. in the middle of a dust storm.

The Flaming Lips.. this was one of the main stages. there were two. They played the ROXY/ KAB PSA's all weekend on 6 big screens! so amazing!

Look for more to come for Keep  A Breast Canada! the blog link is to your right.

We have some great events in the works!

xo-Shaney jo

WARPED TOUR TORONTO!

hello...
Our fellow Canadian friend and KAB representative, Odette visits KAB on Warped tour when they tramped their way through Toronto. Check out her blog on the KEEP A BREAST CANADA blogspot.
xo-Shaney jo
the link is just to your right -------->

DORK X KAB

Embrace your inner DORK.
These shades are plastic, hot colors (ELECRTRIC BLUE! DEEP BLUE! YELLOW! RED! WHITE!...)
and look oh-so-good on your mug. Try the bubble-gum-pink-with-candy-apple combo to benefit
The Keep A Breast Foundation,
or even the candy-apple-with-bubble-gum-pink.

Available at Swiv Tackle Circus, right here, right now.

That's right darlings, reverse it.
Shea Hodges, Global Team Manager & Shaney jo Darden of

The Keep A Breast Foundation.

photos of KAB girls c. desirée dawn kuhn
Glide and You Shall FInd, Swiv Tackle Circus

KAB MANIA THIS WEEKEND

hi,

This weekend is KAB MANIA WEEKEND. so much going on. I'll try to give you reports as we go, but internet is limited.
This is what's going on.

*Shea( KAB team manager ) and Renaud ( KAB French affiliate) will be heading up the KAB tent in the TRANSWORLD SURF JUNGLE!
as the US OPEN OF SURFING. go and see them if you are there. They will have many members of the KAB SURF team onsite.

*Jeepers! is happening in SD. This is your chance to see the 5 foot tall boobies! sculpture painted live by KMNZ_Z and EKUNDAYO.

*I will be in Canada at the Pemberton festival. KAB will have a huge tent! onsite at the festival with Emergen-C PINK! We are officially launching the Pink Lemonade Emergen-C in Canada as well as this is our official launch of KEEP A BREAST CANADA. Look to the side bnar of this blog for the official KAB Canada blog.

*Erica will be in New Mexico this weekend on the Warped Tour.

*and Claire is out on tour for KAB with Mainatin Composure check out the KAB myspace to stay up to date with Claire and where she is at!

that's about it!
thanks everyone for all the love and support!

xo-Shaney jo

JEEPERS! those are some big boobies!

The 5 foot tall breast cast is almost done.
It's so crazy i can't believe it.
Thanks to Watson Laminates for their time and resources for making this amazing sculpture. Watson's is a skateboard factory who had been making boards since 1975! Can you imagine what's been going on there this last week with the crew making these boobies!



They will be painted live at the SD COMIC CON event JEEPERS!
by my friends and artist KMND_Z and EKUNDAYO.

EKUNDAYO and KMND_Z painting at GVR SURF for KAB


so..this weekend don't miss it!

JEEPERS!

JEEPERS!

JEEPERS!

Keep A Breast is a part of an amazing event next weekend during COMIC CON.
check link above for all info.

We made a 4 foot tall breast cast that will be painted LIVE by KMND_Z and Ekundayo.

SNEAK PEAK VIDEO of THE BOOBIES!


JEEPERS!
FIELDTRIP ENTERTAINMENT PRESENTS JEEPERS!
COMIC CON COSTUME AFTER PARTY
with LIVE ART AND MUSIC SHOWCASE
at the 4th&B, Downtown San Diego
July 26th 2008
(four blocks from the convention center)

STORY OF THE YEAR & SAY ANYTHING love boobies!

Nothing like a hot sweaty guy in a KAB "i love boobies!" tee!
LOL
sorry i could not resist saying that.

Here are a few pics form the amazing Erin Caruso.
I snagged them off her Warped Tour blog.

STORY OF THE YEAR


SAY ANYTHING


We are working on a KAB/Erin Caruso photo exhibition that you will see this fall!

xo-Shaney jo

KAB on tour with Maintain Composure [MFA]

Hey everyone!
Claire here =]

I have some very exciting news!
Keep A Breast is going to be going on tour with the band Maintain Composure as part of our Music For Awareness campaign!
I will be the first one to tell you that these guys are not only dedicated to their music, but they are fully dedicated to doing whatever is possible to help out Keep A Breast.
These guys have helped us out in the past...



& most recently, they drove 6 hours from Dayton, Ohio to Chicago, Illinois to meet me for the Zumiez Couch Tour....arriving at 4 a.m. and only getting 2 hours of sleep on the floor, and they still were amazing volunteers that day.
I will be tagging along with them, running the education booth at each show, and selling Keep A Breast merch!

for tour dates visit the Maintain Composure myspace.
add them as a friend and show your support.

xoxo
Claire
KEEP A BREAST
art.education.awareness.action.

Community Yoga to benefit KAB and your health! :) cuz i luv ya!

hi everyone..

Not sure if most of you know but KAB has a new HQ in the home of my new gallery Swiv Tackle Circus.
myspace.com/swivtacklecircus
we are doing all kinds of cool art shows and community events.
I'm even planting a pumpkin patch and garden outside.

If you live in north county San Diego come to community Yoga!
Yoga is a great way to reduce stress and prevent breast cancer!
every saturday at 9:30 am

xo-Shaney jo

ERICA'S WARPED TOUR BLOG #3

Warped Tour DENVER pics!

June 20th, Day Off after Denver, CO

Hello all! So we just had a coulple of the best days on tour! Salt Lake City was amazing. Heaps of show goers coming in and out. We had a signing with Mayday Parade, check pics below of all of the ladies in the Girlz Garage with the band! Protest the Hero are regular visitors at the KAB booth in the Girlz Garage as well and we love this metal band from Canada! Another favorite is DJ Skeet whos is DJing for Schwayze on the tour this summer! We are helping him sell some of his tanks and he is going to be donating 25% to Keep A Breast! We also have been able to hook up a lot of bands like, Say Anything, Cobra Starship, Amberlin and Protest the Hero with awesome threads from Fox Clothing!

After the show in Denver on the 30th, we hosted an official Vans Warped Tour Keep A Breast party! It was AMAZING!!!!!!!! Thanks to Soda Jerk Presents and Suburban Home Records Vinyl Collective for helping out! Because of them, we were donated a 44 passenger bus as well as a 33 passenger limo bus to transport people to and from the Warped Grounds to the club all night long. We had an incredible line up of DJ's including Travis McCoy from Gym Class Heroes, Gabe Saporta from Cobra Starship, Parker Case & amp, Jake Turner from Say Anything and Scooter, our long time friend and musician from Denver, CO! It was the first party of the summer and one that made everyone on tour want some more!! We had all kinds of people from the tour come along with the bands that were already DJing…we had Norma Jean, Street Dogs, The Higher, Forever The Sickest Kids, Reel Big Fish, Amberlin, Every Time I Die, Alesana, Beat Union, 3Oh!3, Set Your Goals, Mayday Parade, We the Kings and the list goes on and on…

KATIE FORM KAB!

MAYDAY PARADE SIGNING IN GIRLZ GARAGE TENT!


WHEN WE RUN OUT OF I LOVE BOOBIES TEE'S WHICH HAPPENS ALL THE TIME :) JUST MAKE YOUR OWN! LIKE THIS GUY.


TRAVIS FROM GYM CLASS HEROES DJ'D OUR PARTY! HERE HE IS WITH ERICA!


HOW DID THOSE GET THERE?


TONS AND TONS MORE PICS OF THE KAB DENVER AFTER PARTY MADNESS ON THE KAB MYSPACE
thanks to the lovely Erin Caruso for all the photo's and all the love!

sending love out to you all on the road! miss you!
xo-Shaney jo

THE MATCHES! for KAB! Music for Awareness program.

"Awareness is knowledge and second to love, knowledge is the greatest
thing I've found in this life.  When sharing it can keep those we love
alive and healthy, there is nothing greater.  Keep A Breast is like a
choir already singing a pretty song, and all they asked is that I sang
along, making the whole message a touch louder.  Why wouldn't I sing
along?"

-Sean Harris, The Matches

KAB WARPED TOUR after party in Denver!

hi!
Check out our friend Erin Caruso.
AKA Warped Tour Pit reporter.
photo's from the
KAB WT after party in Denver!
more to come!
Thanks Erin!
xo-sj

G*K*A*

Girls Kick Ass!
A long time ago a met a girl named Keva Marie, we instantly became friends! I was in design school and she was always wearing the craziest outfits and platform shoes! She started a brand called Poot! and coined the phrase *Girls Kick Ass* Copied by many.. but she's the original. I made the patterns for the first ever Poot! hot pants! Anyway... My post today is about G*K*A*
KAB has had the pleasure of meeting and working with the most ass kicking, smart, inspiring girls around the world! like athletes: Lisa Anderson, Jen Smith, Julie Cox, Rochelle Ballard, Megan Abubo, Chanelle Sladics, Sam Cornish, Layne Beachley, Stephanie Gilmore and musicians like: Joan Jett, Pink, Charlotte Sometimes, Katy Perry, The Donna's and The Randies...
Here's to you... G*K*A*

Here is the first ever KAB TEAM photo shoot!
photo's by Kassia Meador.

Rochelle Ballard, (Hawaii) Surf

Megan Abubo, (Hawaii) Surf

Chanelle Sladics, (Cali) Snow

xoxoxo-Shaney jo

ALL TIME LOW for KAB

"Breast cancer... Or any type of cancer for that matter, isn't something most kids worry about. When you're young, you feel invincible, but the reality is that the disease can affect anyone, at any time, and often comes out of nowhere. Keep-A-Breast is taking off the blindfold that a lot of kids are hiding behind, and in turn, helping save lives... and boobs."
- Alex, All Time Low

Erica's [KAB] Warped Tour blog (WEEK TWO)

June 27, 2008

Gallup, NM

The past two show days in Phoenix and New Mexico were great but so hot! In Phoenix, my other team member, Katie Lockley, who will be helping out in the KAB booth all summer long arrived! I am so excited to have her for the summer, she will be such a huge help! She is so excited to meet all of you! She took over for the day so I could start casting some of the female artists on the tour. I was able to cast Emily Whitehurst from The Action Design, Charlotte Poland from Charlotte Sometimes and Katy Perry! We were so thankful to have these wonderful and talented ladies donate their time to help a good cause. We will have artists on the tour paint the casts, we will then auction them at the end of the tour to raise funds for breast cancer awareness and prevention.

KATY PERRY


CHARLOTTE SOMETIMES


MATERIALS AND STUFF


TENT ACTION




Come and see me in The Girlz Garage tent!!
all summer!

xoxo-Erica.

LIVE VERSION of "Keep A Breast"

This song was written by our friend Baptiste Duseaux.
He Has performed it LIVE at the ROXY JAM in Biarritz. Which starts this week.
KAB will not be there this year! :( but... We will be there in Spirit, all the Long-board
goddesses and KAB surf team, Kassia Meador, Jen Smith, and Julie Cox will be there showing their support for KAB.

LIVE FROM BAPTISTE IN FRANCE
Keep A Breast - Exclusive live version.

Erica's [KAB] Warped Tour blog (WEEK ONE)

June 23, 2008

Warped Tour –Blog

Hello friends!! Erica here with Keep A Breast! We have just begun our 8th year on the Vans Warped Tour and we are so excited about it. We started off with two pre-production days in Pomona last Wed & Thursday which consisted of a lot of sit around and wait time… It was great to re-unite with old and wonderful friends. I met up with my good friend Erin Gorski that runs the recycling program for the tour, went swimming and simply enjoyed the day. On day two of pre-production, we began to get all of our things organized and had our opening meetings to get all of the new people acquainted with the way things work on tour. In the evening, Shaney Jo Darden, the co-founder of Keep A Breast came and joined us. We went out to the Norma Jean record listening party with the tours Myspace crew as well as the pit reporter for this summer tour, Erin Caruso. We all got a decent amount of hang time in before everything started the morning.
Come Friday morning we were all ready to get on with the show. Set up was a little crazy because there were a few problems with our tent. We were supposed to get a new one but it was made incorrectly so we had to retreat back to the old tent. Set up went fairly smooth and everything looked great in the tent! Since we started out in Pomona, we started out big! It was a fairly busy day but the next two days were even crazier in San Francisco on the pier and Ventura on the beach. Each evening there is a BBQ for the late night eaters & hangs. It’s a great spot to get everyone together and meet some new people on the tour. There seems to be a lot of new people this summer so I am pretty excited to meet as many of them as possible.
After Ventura, we had a day off in San Diego, and I could have gone home however I thought it would just be a tease, so I stayed with everyone else. We went to Target & bought bikes for the summer….I opted for the cruiser rather than the usual cheapie BMX bike I usually buy for the tour. Having a bike helps a lot with those super long hauls from the busses to the lot or field where we set up. Erin Gorski and I took a little walk in the morning and found some batting cages and decided to hit a few rounds of softball. Then later back at the hotel I went swimming with a few others to get some more exercise in. Later that evening there was a bowling tournament held in downtown San Diego that benefited the TJ Martell Foundation for Cancer, Leukemia & AIDS Research. There was an online auction for people to bid on a band to bowl with…there were tons of bands that got into it and helped out including Say Anything, Every Time I Die, Shwayze, Valencia and heaps of others…amongst the bands, there were a few other teams including the Myspace team and my team. We bowled okay but unfortunately didn’t make it to the second round. There was a late night dance party with the Story of the Year guys on there bus back at the hotels. The next day we had a day off in Phoenix, AZ at the most amazing resort . There were three pools and a lazy river! Erin & I jumped off the bus early to get in the pool & start a day of relaxation. We had to soak it up on these two days off because the rest of the tour is not going to be quite as luxurious. The next show day is in Phoenix, so we are trying to prepare ourselves for the heat.
So far al of our volunteers have been wonderful, baring the heat and having a great time. We’ll be updating you all again soon with all kinds of great stories from the road!

SHANEY JO


KAB SET UP


EMERGEN-C!


GIRLZ GARAGE


VISITORS



BOWLING


ERICA and LISA