Welcome Remarks—The Artists of Change: Conversations with the Ford Fellows—New York—Jan 15, 2016
Channel: HowlRound Theatre Commons
Date: 2016-01-16

Welcome Remarks
9:20am EST (New York) / 14:20 GMT (London) / 6:20am PST (Los Angeles) ​
Elizabeth Alexander Director, Creativity and Free Expression, Ford Foundation 

As a culmination of the Art of Change initiative, the Ford Foundation is hosting The Artists of Change: Conversations with the Ford Fellows on January 15th, 2016. During this day-long interactive forum, the Art of Change Fellows—13 creative visionaries working at the forefront of art and social change—will share their work and spark lively conversation with the audience and each other around the ideas they are exploring.

Over the course of the year, the Fellows—Robert Battle, Thelma Golden, Amitav Ghosh, David Henry Hwang, Deeyah Khan, Arnold Lehman, Joy Mboya, Laura Poitras, Bill Rauch, Toshi Reagon, Pedro Reyes, Albie Sachs, and Carrie Mae Weems—have pursued independent projects on critical issues such as surveillance, climate change, drug policy and capitalism, soft power, diversity in the arts, social networks, and the power of technology.

The Artists of Change will be livestreamed on the global, commons based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday, January 15th, 2016.

On Twitter, use #ArtOfChange and follow @HowlRoundTV. To submit questions to the Fellows, follow @FordFoundation and look out for the prompts.

http://howlround.com/livestreaming-the-artists-of-change-conversations-with-the-ford-fellows-new-york-fri-jan-15

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