Join us as we welcome our first presenter for the 2023 SPEAK Lecture Series- DJ Savarese!
DJ is a public speaker, writer, and activist who works to make literacy-based education, communication, and inclusive lives a reality for all nontraditionally speaking people through artful advocacy, teaching, and community organizing. A 2017-19 OSF Human Rights Initiative Youth Fellow alum, he is also the co-producer of the Peabody award-winning, Emmy-nominated documentary Deej: Inclusion Shouldn’t be a Lottery, which unearths discrepancies between insider and outsider perspectives of his lived experience as an alternatively-communicating autistic person. DJ's most recent poetry collection is Swoon, which has been nominated for a Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and whose title poem is a Pushcart Prize nominee.Â
AGE GROUP: | Young Adults (12-18) | Adults (18+) |
EVENT TYPE: | Community Interest | Books/Literature/Writing |
TAGS: | SPEAK |
*Originally opened in 1932 and designated as Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library’s main branch, EVPL Central is located at 200 SE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. With 145,000 square feet, the building contains areas for kids and teens, Maker Central, Education Central, Business Central, study rooms, and the Indiana Room, a special collection of materials that focus on local and regional history. Available for public use, EVPL Central also features the Browning Rooms, a conference room, and a large group room.
