What is the BRIGHT Run?
Join us for our 18th annual event!
Saturday, September 6, 2025
BRIGHT Run is a non-competitive, family friendly 1 km/5 km walk or run which is held annually on the first Saturday after Labour Day.
This year’s event will be on Saturday, September 6, 2025.
There are many ways to support BRIGHT Run!
Interested in volunteering?
BRIGHT Run depends on its 200+ volunteers to make it all happen all year round.
Volunteering with BRIGHT Run provides opportunities to use your special skills and creativity, make new friends and become part of a vibrant community.
There are lots of volunteer experiences to choose from on Event Day, at community events or in the Juravinski Cancer Centre lobby.
Something for everyone! High school students welcome.
BRIGHT Run volunteering is fun … and fulfilling!
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BRIGHT Run History
BRIGHT: Breast cancer Research In Greater Hamilton Today
BRIGHT Run was created because of the inspiration and encouragement from breast cancer patients at the Juravinski Cancer Centre (JCC).
Our patients told us they wanted to fund breast cancer research taking place at the centre that helped them, beyond simply writing a cheque.
They said that if we held a local walk/run to raise money for local research, our patients would be there.
A group of healthcare providers – oncologists, surgeons, nurses, and therapists – launched the BRIGHT Run. Not an easy task for a bunch of people well-versed in all things medical, but generally inexperienced in event planning.
But plan it they did, and the first BRIGHT Run in 2008 welcomed patients, family members, friends, neighbours, co-workers and others from throughout the cancer centre’s catchment area.
The JCC serves Hamilton, Niagara, Haldimand, Brant, Halton, and Norfolk.
The first BRIGHT Run – on Sept. 6, 2008 – at the Dundas Valley Conservation Area was a great success. Even the rainy, misty weather couldn’t dampen the excitement. More than 1,000 participants raised more than $250,000. What a testament to the support for our local breast cancer researchers!
Since then, BRIGHT Run participants have raised more than $6 million and funded 21 important local research projects.
We are very proud of the work we do here in Hamilton at the JCC in support of women and men with breast cancer.
“Through the BRIGHT Run, we look forward to bringing increased awareness to breast cancer research being done right here in Hamilton and raising much-needed funds to ensure it continues.”
– Dr. Mark Levine
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