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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31 | 12 - 1pm ET

Suleika Jaouad: Exploring American Symphony and cultivating creativity in difficult times

Join New York Times bestselling author, Emmy Award-winning journalist and TED speaker Suleika Jaouad for an exclusive Q&A on creativity as a tool for resilience during difficult times. American Symphony, now shortlisted for three Academy Awards, is an intimate portrait of Suleika and her Grammy-winning husband Jon Batiste at a profound turning point in their lives. The camera follows as they grapple with great acclaim during her crushing illness, sustained by art, love, and the transformative nature of creative expression. Through Suleika’s story, discover how to find sources of strength and inspiration in the face of life's greatest challenges.

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Suleika Jaouad is the author of the instant New York Times bestselling memoir, Between Two Kingdoms. She wrote the Emmy Award-winning New York Times column “Life, Interrupted,” and her reporting and essays have been featured in the New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Vogue, and NPR, among others. A highly sought-after speaker, her mainstage TED Talk was one of the ten most popular of 2019 and has nearly five million views. She is also the creator of The Isolation Journals, a community creativity project founded during the Covid-19 pandemic to help others convert isolation into artistic solitude; over 100,000 people from around the world have joined.

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