Orlando Sentinel

Select D23 Expo convention sessions will be livestream­ed

- By Dewayne Bevil dbevil@orlandosen­tinel.com

Six sessions of the D23 Expo will be livestream­ed in the next few days, the official Disney fan club announced. Not on the list, though, is Sunday’s presentati­on with Bob Chapek, chairman of Disney Parks, Experience and Products.

On Friday, the Disney Legends Ceremony will be available. It begins at 1:30 p.m. Eastern time, and it will salute Christina Aguilera, Wing T. Chao, Robert Downey Jr., Jon Favreau, James Earl Jones, Bette Midler, Kenny Ortega, Barnette Ricci, Robin Roberts, Diane Sawyer, Ming-Na Wen and Hans Zimmer. It will be hosted by Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Iger. At 7 p.m. Friday, folks can see “Behind the Art of Disney Costuming.”

The gathering runs Friday through Sunday at the Anaheim Convention Center in California. The livestream­ing can be accessed through D23.com.

On Saturday, livestream­ing events will include “Women of Impact: Meet the Nat Geo Explorers Changing the World” (1 p.m. Eastern) and “Marvel Comics: Marvel’s 80th Anniversar­y” (7 p.m.).

Sunday’s livestream­ing opportunit­ies are “Heroines of the Disney Galaxies” at 1 p.m. (with Central Florida’s own Ashley Eckstein) and “The Art of Disney Storytelli­ng” — with hosts John Stamos and Caitlin McHugh Stamos as hosts — at 6 p.m. The storytelli­ng session includes a panel with Tony Baxter, Floyd Norman, Paul Briggs and Don Hahn.

Chapek’s speech is scheduled at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday. D23 touts that guests “will be treated to more details on much-anticipate­d attraction­s, experience­s and transforma­tive storytelli­ng.”

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