CSUCI will 'light it up blue' for World Autism Awareness Day

CSU Channel Islands will hold its seventh annual “Light It Up Blue” autism awareness event from 6-8 p.m. Monday in front of the John Spoor Broome Library, which will be bathed in blue light for the event.

April 2 is World Autism Awareness Day.

A community resource fair with nearly two dozen vendors will take place from 6-7 p.m. in the Broome Library Plaza. At 7 p.m., Los Angeles actor-singer George Steeves and other speakers, two from CSUCI, will share their experiences of being on the autism spectrum.

Steeves, 29, will talk about his award-winning one-man show: “Magic 8 Ball: My Life with Asperger’s.”

The event will close with a ceremony in which audience members hold up blue tea lights.