180 Days
Taren has 180 days to help her patients find meaning at the end of life ... can she do it?
180 Days is the story of Taren Sterry's first six months working in hospice. While attending the University of California at Santa Cruz she embarks on a six month ethnographic field study to work with terminally ill patients and their families. Taren eagerly anticipates having deep spiritual encounters with her patients, but to do that she must first learn how to survive in a foreign land, face the past and savor the taste of humble pie.
180 Days is the story of Taren Sterry's first six months working in hospice. While attending the University of California at Santa Cruz she embarks on a six month ethnographic field study to work with terminally ill patients and their families. Taren eagerly anticipates having deep spiritual encounters with her patients, but to do that she must first learn how to survive in a foreign land, face the past and savor the taste of humble pie.
180 Days Tours
Want to see 180 Days but don't get to New York often? No problem. 180 Days can come to your town, theater or hospice. It's been performed as a fundraiser, volunteer recognition event and as the entertainment for the Hospice and Palliative Care Association of New York State. A performance of 180 Days can also be combined with a Storytelling, Team Building or Improv workshop for your hospice program.
Past and Upcoming Tours:
Women at Work Festival, NYC
The Visiting Nurse Service of New York Hospice Care, NYC
St. John's University, Queens
Hospice and Palliative Care Association of NY, Albany
Estrogenius Festival, NYC
New Jersey Hospice and Palliative Care Association, Eatontown, NJ
New York University Palliative Care End of Life Conference, NYC
To book a show, write to Taren.
Past and Upcoming Tours:
Women at Work Festival, NYC
The Visiting Nurse Service of New York Hospice Care, NYC
St. John's University, Queens
Hospice and Palliative Care Association of NY, Albany
Estrogenius Festival, NYC
New Jersey Hospice and Palliative Care Association, Eatontown, NJ
New York University Palliative Care End of Life Conference, NYC
To book a show, write to Taren.
"The people we meet in Taren Sterry's one woman show, 180 Days--a young idealistic Taren, her family and her Hospice patients--are all compelling characters. As a long-time Hospice professional, I found 180 Days to be powerful, poignant, fresh and funny. The show captures life and death in a very real way and engages non-hospice audience members as well those of us who do the work. 180 Days is a creative celebration of life and the upcoming shows are timely as November is 'National Hospice Month'. Go See It!"
--Jeanne Dennis, Vice President for VNSNY Hospice Care
"It is pretty hard for me and probably lots of other hospice workers to relate hospice experiences to others and feel that we have painted a meaningful picture. I think that since Taren is an artist and has the ability to tell her whole story with humor, understanding and perspective she is able to do what the rest of us find so difficult. This is a very clear example to me of the role of the artist in this world."
--Gilbert Oakley, Hospice Nurse
"In 180 Days, Taren Sterry weaves a tale of compassion and calling with her amazing gifts of wit, humor and pathos. Finding humor, poignancy and profound respect for death, Taren is a gifted and hilarious storyteller."
--Ann Megyas, Zen Chaplain and Yoga Teacher
--Jeanne Dennis, Vice President for VNSNY Hospice Care
"It is pretty hard for me and probably lots of other hospice workers to relate hospice experiences to others and feel that we have painted a meaningful picture. I think that since Taren is an artist and has the ability to tell her whole story with humor, understanding and perspective she is able to do what the rest of us find so difficult. This is a very clear example to me of the role of the artist in this world."
--Gilbert Oakley, Hospice Nurse
"In 180 Days, Taren Sterry weaves a tale of compassion and calling with her amazing gifts of wit, humor and pathos. Finding humor, poignancy and profound respect for death, Taren is a gifted and hilarious storyteller."
--Ann Megyas, Zen Chaplain and Yoga Teacher