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2021 SLN Conference: Special Event

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Special Event: Dinner & Movie Night

(Saturday, June 19th) – $30 

5pmPT/6pmMT/7pmCT/8pmET

Dinner with Don

Join Don Meyer as we cook the dinner he’d make you if you came to his home! We’ll make Pasta Puttanesca, a delicious pasta with a slightly racy backstory. Puttanesca has a sunny, southern Italian taste that can be enjoyed year-round—even in the middle of winter! It’s easy to make and can be easily tweaked for vegetarian and vegan eaters. We’ll provide you with a list of ingredients and kitchen tools to have available. Once we’re on air, we’ll enjoy a favorite beverage, chat, and get busy cooking!

        • Don Meyer, Founder and former Director of Sibling Support Project, Creator of Sibshop model
        • Moderator: Emily Hill, Director, Sibling Support Project

6pmPT/7pmMT/8pmCT/9pmET

Movie and Conversation with Filmmaker 

The film called “3Conversations in April” is an 11 minute portrayal from the perspective of a sibling recorded in April 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic. Susan Hamovitch, the filmmaker, shares recordings of the first phone calls she’s ever made to her brother — an older man with autism, who does not use words to communicate — as she attempts to find ways to provide something familiar in her brother’s upended life. Her quest to communicate has been made ever more urgent because her brother has just recently been diagnosed COVID positive and placed in complete isolation in his group home, miles away.

As Susan gives Alan ever cheerier pep talks from her apartment in Brooklyn, she is never certain about whether he understands that it’s she whose voice he is hearing at the other end of the phone. Meanwhile, the viewer will watch as darker themes emerge — the series of illogical and unfeeling policy decisions made by a system that governs the care of those with intellectual disabilities, the worried lives of the staff. Through a steady interspersing of titles and reenactments, the film gradually reveals some unsettling realities. 

        • Susan Hamovitch, Filmmaker
        • Moderator: Sheena Brevig

7pmPT/8pm MT/9pmCT/10pm ET:

Conclude Special Event