Finding The Good Inside the Grief: w/ special guest V (formerly Eve Ensler)

Join us in person this Mother's Day for a chance to connect, reflect, and discover the good that can emerge from grief. Don't miss this meaningful event filled with stories, insights, and a warm community vibe! This is a no-cost community event for everyone who has ever loved, lost, and dared to laugh through the tears.

Jon Imparato's impactful and award-winning career spans decades in LGBTQ+ advocacy and cultural storytelling. For twenty-five years, Jon has served as the Artistic Director of the Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center, the largest cultural arts program for the LGBTQ+ community in the world. Producing more than 350 events and collaborating with artists including Liza Minnelli, Laverne Cox, Jane Fonda, Billy Porter, and Shirley MacLaine. Jon played a critical role in the progression of the queer community through the arts. His productions garnered over 199 awards, including multiple Ovation Awards and the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle’s Award for Sustained Excellence in Theatre. In 2020, he was honored with the LA Stage Alliance Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the arts.

(formerly Eve Ensler) is the Tony Award-winning playwright, activist, performer, and author of the Obie award-winning theatrical phenomenon , published in over 48 languages, performed in over 140 countries, and heralded by The as one of the “best American plays” of the past 25 years and that “no recent hour of theater has had a greater impact worldwide.

In , Jon Imparato takes readers on a sixty-year journey where death is never far away, lurking, chasing, and shocking. Through stories that are outrageous, heartbreaking, and unexpectedly funny, Jon reveals how grief is more than mourning. It’s a wild dance partner, a mischievous teacher, and ultimately, a force that transforms.

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