A Call to Action with Jess Thom—Kennedy Center’s 2016 Leadership Exchange in Arts and Disabilities
Channel: HowlRound Theatre Commons
Date: 2016-08-22

The Office of VSA and Accessibility at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts presents the 2016 Leadership Exchange in Arts and Disability (LEAD) Conference livestreaming select sessions on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Wednesday, August 3 and Saturday, August 6 from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In its 16th year, LEAD is an international network of arts professionals focused on making the cultural arts accessible to people with disabilities of all ages.  

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Livestream Schedule for Wednesday, August 3:

A Call to Action with Jess Thom
10am-10:45am EDT (Washington, DC) / 9am-9:45am CDT (Chicago) / 8am-8:45am MDT (Denver) / 7am-7:45am PDT (San Francisco) / 14:00-14:45 GMT / 3pm-3:45pm BST (London)

Jess Thom is co-founder of Touretteshero and may or may not lead a secret double life as a superhero. Artist, activist, writer, and performer, she shares her message of inclusivity with audiences around the world.

She has had tics since she was a child but wasn’t diagnosed with Tourettes until she was in her 20s. With encouragement from her friends, she decided to turn her tics into a source of imaginative creativity and the Touretteshero project was born.

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