Tickets
General Ticket: $15
Members: $10
Join us for an emotionally empowering evening with Mary Lou Falcone as she shares her journey as a caregiver. The internationally esteemed publicist/strategist and author of the book I DIDN’T SEE IT COMING: Scenes of Love, Loss, and Lewy Body Dementia, will speak about her life, share her story, read from her book, and invite the audience to a reflective Q&A at the end of her presentation.
“It’s a love story,” she says, “full of hope and resilience, underscoring that we are not alone, even though it sometimes feels that way.”
While no stranger to the role of caregiver, having been her father’s caregiver at ten years old, Falcone’s life and perspective changed dramatically when her late husband, illustrator Nicky Zann, was diagnosed with Lewy body dementia (LBD). Like so many other caregivers around the world are experiencing, the resiliency required to show up for a loved one as they move through the stages of decline is immense, commendable, and at times, impossible to fathom.
Programmed in tandem with National Family Caregivers Month, this event looks to raise awareness not only for the debilitating disease but also to illuminate the often-neglected story: the story of the caregiver and the power of community.
MARY LOU FALCONE
Author and Publicist
Photo by Olan Montgomery
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Mary Lou Falcone is internationally known as a classical music publicist/strategist who for fifty years has helped guide the careers of celebrated artists – Van Cliburn, Gustavo Dudamel, Renée Fleming, Sir Georg Solti, James Taylor – and advised many institutions including Carnegie Hall, Chicago Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic. Combining communication skills with her background as a performer and educator, she now adds another layer: advocate for Lewy body dementia (LBD) awareness. Her late husband, the illustrator Nicky Zann who died from LBD in 2020, was the catalyst for her first book, I DIDN’T SEE IT COMING: Scenes of Love, Loss, and Lewy Body Dementia. She is also an Executive Producer of a new documentary film about LBD entitled Facing the Wind.