Chris Lytle knew there would be community interest in a speaking engagement by Lieutenant General, the Honorable Rom\u00e9o Dallaire, but even he was surprised by the demand for tickets.<\/p>\n
All of the free tickets to Dallaire\u2019s talk Friday, Dec. 1 at Brock University have now been taken, which is good news to Lytle, the event organizer and Brock\u2019s Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) co-ordinator.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s fantastic. It really speaks to the fact that people are interested in hearing Romeo speak,\u201d Lytle said.<\/p>\n
Dallaire\u2019s talk will take place in Sean O\u2019Sullivan Theatre at 6:30 p.m. Friday as Brock marks International Day of Persons with Disabilities.<\/p>\n
Appointed as commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Rwanda, Dallaire was witness to the 1994 Rwandan genocide, where it\u2019s estimated that between 500,000 and one million people were killed in the span of 100 days.<\/p>\n
Dallaire now lives with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and has become an internationally known advocate for human rights.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a high-powered talk that will allow us to reanalyze what we think discrimination means,\u201d Lytle said. \u201cThis will likely result in many conversations afterward and that\u2019s why I wanted to do this.\u201d<\/p>\n
Those attending Dallaire\u2019s talk Friday night are encouraged to bring a non-perishable food item to be collected at the door for Community Care.<\/p>\n
What:<\/strong> The International Day of Persons with Disabilities<\/p>\n Who:<\/strong> Lieutenant General, The Honorable Rom\u00e9o Dallaire (Ret\u2019d)<\/p>\n When:<\/strong> Friday, Dec. 1, 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n Where:<\/strong> Sean O\u2019Sullivan Theatre, Brock University<\/p>\n Tickets:<\/strong> Event is now sold out<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chris Lytle knew there would be community interest in a speaking engagement by Lieutenant General, the Honorable Rom\u00e9o Dallaire, but even he was surprised by the demand for tickets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":47623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3319,4052,1],"tags":[2239,1498,2981,6042,6041,5933],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48107,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48104\/revisions\/48107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}