Welcome to Canes 2025!

We're excited you'll be joining us!

We can’t wait to welcome you to a fun, family-friendly afternoon celebrating 27 years of JOF’s work empowering clinicians with essential nonsurgical skills and bridging critical gaps in musculoskeletal care. Here is some important venue and program info for you below.

See you soon at Canes!

Event Details

🎃 Date: Sunday October 26
🎃 Time: Program starts 4:30 p.m., doors open at 3 p.m. for fun & mingling.
🎃 What to wear: Costumes are welcome - and encouraged!
🎃 Location: Creekside Commons, Lafayette, California (see map below)
  • Free parking: The main entrance to the Creekside Commons is located at 1035 Carol Lane, Lafayette, CA 94549. Please park in lot B, which is the lower lot for the Creekside Commons/Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church complex. Coming down Carol Lane from Mount Diablo Boulevard, passing through the stop sign at Berta Lane, it will be the second large driveway on the right. See parking map below.
  • Public transit: Take BART to the Lafayette stop; you can take a taxi or Uber from the station.
🎃 Accessibility: See our accessibility info here.
🎃 Food & drink: Seasonally themed buffet fare and festive non-alcoholic drinks
🎃 Program: 4:30-5:30 p.m.
  • Opening and introductions
  • Our education mission
  • A donor’s perspective: Elisabeth Andreason
  • Spotlight on students
  • Panel discussion: meet our preceptors, with Catherine Tanner, MSN, FNP-C; J. Theodore Schwartz, MD; and Angela Traverso Ruthnick, DPT, OCS – moderated by Michaela Hayes.
  • Viewing and voting on Healthcare Immersion Program student videos
  • Closing & gratitude
🎃 Silent auction closes: 5:45 p.m.

Place your bids!

Our popular Online Silent Auction is open -- time to  place your bids!  

View student videos

Check out our student videos in full - we'll be voting on "trailer" versions at the party.

Parking at Creekside Commons

Getting to the venue