Oprah Winfrey, Lil Nas X and Miley Cyrus lead a star-studded livestream graduation to make up for cancelled commencements due to coronavirus
Oprah Winfrey, Lil Nas X and Miley Cyrus will lead the stars for a celebrity-filled livestream graduation ceremony on May 15.
The event will take place at 11am PST to offer a celebration for students whose commencements have been canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Entitled #Graduation2020: Facebook And Instagram Celebrate The Class Of 2020 the show will feature a keynote speech by Oprah, 66, Variety reports.
Legend: Oprah Winfrey will lead the stars for a celebrity-filled livestream graduation ceremony this May 15; she is pictured giving the Harvard commencement speech in 2013
MIley is slated to perform her 2009 song The Climb about how the journey is more important than the destination.
The two women and Nas join a group of celebrity guests that features Jennifer Garner, Awkwafina and Simone Biles.
Apparently more celebrity guests have yet to be announced but Facebook will reveal their names in the future.
Lending his star power: Lil Nas X, who is pictured at the Grammy Awards this January, is also on the bill for the event hosted by Facebook and Instagram
Sizzling: MIley Cyrus is slated to perform her 2009 song The Climb about how the journey is more important than the destination; pictured onstage at Glastonbury last June
Principals and deans from various schools and universities will also speak, and pictures of 2020 graduating classes from around the country will be shown.
Facebook Watch will livestream the entire event with segments appearing on Instagram, which is owned by Facebook.
Oprah is no stranger to commencement speeches, which she has delivered at institutions including Harvard and the University Of Southern California.
What a lineup: #Graduation2020: Facebook And Instagram Celebrate The Class Of 2020 will feature Awkwafina who is pictured last December at the Jumanji: The Next Level premiere
So many stars: Olympic gymnast Simone Biles will also be part of the event; she is pictured at the Rio De Janeiro Olympics in 2016 where she won a gold medal
She told the Harvard class of 2013 that ‘the key to life is to develop an internal moral, emotional G.P.S. that can tell you which way to go.’
Jennifer also gave a commencement speech at her alma mater Denison University in Granville, Ohio for the class of 2019.
She offered such pearls of wisdom as: ‘Mixed signals are not mixed signals – they’re a no,’ and: ‘Nothing looks better in your 50s than sunscreen in your 20s.’
Dab hand: Jennifer Garner, who gave a commencement speech at her alma mater Denison University in Granville, Ohio for the class of 2019, will be on the livestream as well