January, 18th 2025: Join us for food, drinks, dancing, and author sharing — all to support our mission. Learn more here!
The Elephant in the Room is Cancer. Tea is the Relief Conversation Provides.
The Elephant in the Room is Cancer. Tea is the Relief Conversation Provides.
Elephants and Tea invites you to join us in celebration of the newest magazine release!
Our Magazine Release Events are in-person gatherings that take place across the country to celebrate the release of our magazine while meeting others in the adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer community.
Our goals for these events are:
Happening quarterly, and partnered with a local organization or hospital that serves the cancer community, celebrate with us and connect with others in the AYA cancer community in a fun and meaningful way!
Daytime Activities:
1. Elephants and Tea Healing Through Writing Workshop
2. Two additional workshops ranging from survivorship workshops to wellness activities
A Night Out:
1. Storytelling Soiree – an evening out with Elephants and Tea to celebrate the magazine release, hear from some of our authors, and spend time with others in the community
June 7, 2025 – Pittsburgh, PA
Powered by: Servier
Regional Partner: Young Adult Survivors United
Schedule of Events:
Healing Through Writing Workshop (12:00-2:10pm)
Mindfulness and Your Treatment, Powered by The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (2:30-3:30pm)
Therapeutic Horticulture and Your Cancer Journey (3:50-4:50pm)
Storytelling Soiree (6:30-9:00pm)
Daytime workshops will be held at:
Young Adult Survivors United Offices
1000 Brooktree Rd. Suite 105
Wexford, PA 15090
The Storytelling Soiree will be held at:
Dive Bar & Grille (North Hills)
3385 Babcock Blvd
McKnight, PA 15237
Room blocks / Hotel information-
Hilton Garden Inn Pittsburgh/Cranberry
169.00 USD per night – Last Day to Book: Friday, May 26, 2025
CLICK HERE TO BOOK
Fairfield Inn & Suites Pittsburgh North/McCandless Crossing
*This hotel is roughly 11 minutes from where the daytime workshops are being held, and 9 minutes from where the Storytelling Soiree is being held.
June 7, 2025 – Pittsburgh, PA
Powered by: Servier
Regional Partner: Young Adult Survivors United
Magazine Theme: “Struggles of Survivorship”
September 20, 2025 – Chicago, IL
Powered by: The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
Regional Partner: Walgreens
Magazine Theme: “The Emotions of Cancer”
January 17, 2026 – Cleveland, OH
Powered by: Syndax
Regional Partner: The Gathering Place
Elephants and Tea provides scholarships to our selected featured writers from the corresponding magazine to join us at each regional location.
Interested in donating to help provide a scholarship? Donate here.
*Be sure to leave a comment stating that your donation is for the magazine release event scholarship.
2025 Events –
Spring Magazine Event: “My Identity After Cancer”
March 1, 2025 – Orange County, CA
Powered by: I’m Not Done Yet Foundation
Regional Partner: Children’s Hospital of Orange County (part of Rady Children’s Health)
2024 Events –
Spring Magazine Event: “Friendships”
March 2, 2024 – North Carolina
Regional Partners – Duke, UNC Chapel Hill, and Wake Forest AYA Programs
Summer Magazine Event: “Dear Cancer”
June 1, 2024 – Stanford, CA
Regional Partners – Stanford Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Program, Stanford Medicine Children’s Health, Stanford Health Library
Fall Magazine Event: “The Ghosts of Cancer”
September 21, 2024 – Buffalo, NY
Powered by The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
Regional Partner – The Young Adult Program at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
Winter Magazine Event: “Expectations”
January 18, 2025 – Cleveland, OH
Regional Partner – The Gathering Place
2023 Events –
Spring Magazine Event: “The Unseen Challenges of Survivorship“
March 4th, 2023 – Houston, TX – Powered by Walgreens
Regional Partner – MD Anderson Cancer Center
Summer Magazine Release Event: “Dear Cancer“
May 20th, 2023 – Cleveland, OH
Regional Partner – The Gathering Place
Fall Magazine Release Event: “Words Matter”
September 23rd, 2023 – Boston, MA – Powered by Servier
Regional Partner – The Young Adult Program at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Winter Magazine Release Event: “Rediscovering Yourself After Cancer”
January 20th, 2024 – Dallas, TX
Regional Partner – Dallas Young Adult Support Program at UT Southwestern
Elephants and Tea is a trademark of the Steven G. Cancer Foundation, a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit under federal tax guidelines.