Today is the first day of our gala! We’re so excited to kick off our virtual celebration of self advocacy.

Here’s the schedule for today:

Wednesday, November 17

6:00PM – Welcome Remarks

All aboard! After an introduction from our MC and a look at the week’s upcoming events, we’ll be honoring our four awardees. We’re really excited to share with you the important work our awardees are doing. Hear about their work and hear from them at the awards ceremony, streamed on YouTube Premiere at 6pm EST. The event will remain on our YouTube channel for anyone that can’t make it on the day. Follow along this week on our Twitter account, @autselfadvocacy. Make sure to use the #ASANGala hashtag!

7:00PM – Film Screening

Join us to watch LISTEN and People Like Me! You’ll be able to play and pause the video on your own, but we’ll start watching at 7pm. Feel free to join the discussion on Twitter and Facebook using the #ASANGala hashtag! 

• LISTEN is a short film, created by CommunicationFIRST, made with and about non-speaking autistic people in response to the film MUSIC. The run-time is 10 minutes. This film contains graphic descriptions of restrain and seclusion and includes conversations about and references to topics such as disability-based discrimination and harassment. 

• People Like Me is a documentary by Autism Campus Inclusion alum Marrok Sedgwick in which non-speaking autistic adults assert the richness and beauty of autistic culture, and describe ABA as abuse and torture. The run-time is 20 minutes. This documentary includes conversations about and references to violence against children and racialized violence. This film may be overstimulating to those with visual and auditory sensitivity. 

LISTEN has captions and People Like Me has both captions and audio description. ASAN is excited to share these films with you!

You can view the full program here.

Autistic Self Advocacy Network

PO Box 66122
Washington, DC 20035

 

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