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Building Hope: The Maggie’s Centres
21 April 2018 at 3:00 pm
Cinematheque
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After she was diagnosed with terminal cancer, Maggie Keswick Jencks, the wife of the celebrated architectural historian Charles Jencks, launched an initiative to build a series of remarkable hospices for cancer patients. Twenty years after her death in 1996, some twenty Maggies’s Centres have been built by leading architects. A fascinating film about the search for consoling beauty as death approaches.
Prologue by Lori Penner, Architecture49
Directed by Sarah Howitt
2016, UK, 59 minutes, English
Sponsored by Ken King, Ottawa.