MARCIA GAY HARDEN, ACADEMY AWARD-WINNING ACTRESS

For Academy and Tony Award-winning actress Marcia Gay Harden, ordinary was never in the cards. As a child, she moved between exotic locations and demonstrated an innate talent for storytelling. It’s no surprise that she became a highly celebrated actress and now an author.

In her book, The Seasons of My Mother, Harden artfully depicts her creative bonds with her mother, Beverly. She uses floral imagery and ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arrangement, to connect her experience of becoming an artist to her mother's challenge to maintain her identity during her struggle with Alzheimer’s disease. This experience also drove Harden to become an activist for Alzheimer’s awareness.

Join Harden for a loving conversation about the intersection of art, remembrance and the unique love that exists between mother and daughter.

[eamonndeane]

Marcia deserves all the Praise she gets. Such an Outstanding Actress.

[cathylovelady]

She was fabulous in the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy. She has played so many great parts. I admire her. I have worked in a memory care facility and got covid there. So many of our residents died and people shrug that off, like it should be nothing. They were people I loved, who I ate with, laughed with, cried with, danced with. I lived through the covid virus, but I miss the people and the life I had before. Marcia Gay Hardin is a great advocate. People who have memory loss need to be remembered, loved, cared for.