

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: From Where I Sit Anthology Release & Talk featuring John Killacky
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 09 May, 2025 at 06:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Join us for an exciting evening of conversation, art and, poetry beginning with the book release and readings from a new anthology, From Where I Sit, edited by Salaam Green, Birmingham Poet Laureate and UAB Arts in Medicine Artist in Residence. This collection highlights the voices and artwork of writers with mobility disabilities and contributions from the From Where I Sit performance group.

The evening will continue with Leaving the World of the Temporarily Abled with artist, administrator, advocate, and legislator John Killacky. Killacky will share his personal journey of becoming paraplegic twenty-nine years ago due to complications from spinal cord surgery, and how that experience reshaped his artistic, curatorial, and advocacy work. He’ll also present three of his disability-related films and speak to the ongoing fight against ableism in both the arts and politics.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/birmingham/from-where-i-sit-anthology-release-and-talk-featuring-john-killacky/200028066108311
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, entertainment
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 7

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://www.alysstephens.org/disability-arts-festival/?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=birmingham-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Birmingham
- **state**: AL
- **country**: United States
- **location**: UAB's Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts, AEIVA
- **lat**: 33.496888758663
- **long**: -86.807188675143
- **full address**: UAB's Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts, AEIVA, Birmingham, United States

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: UAB Arts in Medicine (https://allevents.in/org/uab-arts-in-medicine/21538507)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Fri, 09 May, 2025 at 06:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** UAB's Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts, AEIVA, Birmingham, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** UAB Arts in Medicine
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art, entertainment
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about From Where I Sit Anthology Release & Talk featuring John Killacky ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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