The ballroom at the new Vestavia Hills Civic Center will be the setting for the Sounds of the Season fundraiser Dec. 9 for the Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology Program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
RISE, a semester-long, service-learning project sponsored by Youth Leadership Vestavia Hills for students at Vestavia Hills High School, is hosting the event, which is being presented by The Prewitt Group.
Those attending the event can make bids in a silent auction of fine art by local artists. Dessert will be served, after which the Alabama Symphony Orchestra will perform.
The event will begin at 6:30 p.m. for the silent auction and dessert, with the ASO performance at 8 p.m. The dress code calls for jackets required.
Tickets are $50 per person and are available at go.uab.edu/vhhsrise.
All of the Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology Program’s budget is funded by RISE, according to a page on UAB’s website about RISE and its fundraising on behalf of young adults with cancer. It is lead by Dr. Julie Wolfson and works under the auspices of the O’Neal Cancer Center.
The center and Children’s of Alabama have partnered to devote research efforts to determine what leads to adolescents’ and young adults’ poor cancer outcomes.
The program aims to answer the questions of why cancer affects this age group differently, what treatments lead to the best long-term outcomes for patients with particular diagnoses, and how the quality of life for patients post-treatment can be improved.
