Tune in to hear Viola Davis discuss her incredible life, career, and new memoir, FINDING ME, in conversation with Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms! This is a TICKETED VIRTUAL EVENT, please purchase your tickets through EventBrite here
In Finding Me, you will meet a little girl named Viola who ran from her past until she made a life changing decision to stop running forever. This is my story, from a crumbling apartment in Central Falls, Rhode Island, to the stage in New York City, and beyond. This is the path I took to finding my purpose and my strength, but also to finding my voice in a world that didn’t always see me.
As I wrote Finding Me, my eyes were open to the truth of how our stories are often not given close examination. They are bogarted, reinvented to fit into a crazy, competitive, judgmental world. So I wrote this for anyone who is searching for a way to understand and overcome a complicated past, let go of shame, and find acceptance. For anyone who needs reminding that a life worth living can only be born from radical honesty and the courage to shed facades and be...you.
Finding Me is a deep reflection on my past and a promise for my future. My hope is that my story will inspire you to light up your own life with creative expression and rediscover who you were before the world put a label on you.
About Viola Davis:
VIOLA DAVIS is an internationally acclaimed actress and producer, known for her exceptional performances in television shows like How to Get Away with Murder and movies like Fences and The Help. She is the winner of an Academy Award, an Emmy Award, and two Tony Awards, and in 2021 she won a Screen Actors Guild award for her role in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. In both 2012 and 2017, Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Davis is also the founder and CEO of JuVee Productions, an artist driven production company that develops and produces independent film, theater, television, and digital content.
About Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms:
Keisha Lance Bottoms is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 60th mayor of Atlanta, Georgia from 2018 to 2022. She was elected mayor in 2017. Before becoming mayor, she was a member of the Atlanta City Council, representing part of Southwest Atlanta.
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