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10-04-2016: Peckham Community Partnership Foundation Speaker Series Presents

Michigan Business Network
September 30, 2016 7:00 PM

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Please join us as we host Ron Suskind, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, author and speaker at our Fall Speaker Series event. Suskind will present his talk,  "Life Animated, A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes and Autism," for two sessions on Tuesday, Oct. 4. 

 

Suskind is a renowned journalist who has spent years covering national affairs for the Wall Street Journal. As a highly-respected journalist, he is also one of the nation's most gifted speakers and performers. 

In celebration of October's National Disability Employment Awareness Month, Suskind will take the stage with his son Owen, as they share their personal family story of Owen's twenty-year journey to learning how to communicate through Disney animation.

An boy with autism who couldn't speak for years, Owen memorized dozens of Disney movies, turned them into a language to express love and loss, kinship and brotherhood. The family became animated characters and communicated with Owen through Disney dialogue and song, until they all emerge together, revealing how, in darkness, we all need stories to survive.

Event Details

  • Date: Tuesday, October 4, 2016 
  • Time: Session 1 10:30 am - 11:30 am
  •           Session 2  2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
  •           Film Screening  5:30 - 7:00  pm
  • Location: 

    Peckham Inc. 

    3510 Capital City Blvd.

    Lansing, MI 48906

 

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