Can Art Save Democracy?

#SFFForFreedoms
Saturday, January 26, 2:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
Filmmaker Lodge, 550 Main St. (2nd floor)

In 2018, For Freedoms launched the 50 State Initiative—the largest creative collaboration in U.S. history—to catalyze civic engagement and public discourse through the arts. The program was based on Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. In this town hall, join Eric Gottesman and Tanya Selvaratnam of For Freedoms, filmmaker Ava DuVernay, performer and choreographer Okwui Okpokwasili, Magnum photographer Susan Meiselas, artist/co-founder of Black Lives Matter Patrisse Cullors, and playwright and performer Lisa Kron (Fun Home) to explore how culture is vital to an active, participatory, inclusive, and free democracy.

Credits

Eric Gottesman
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Tanya Selvaratnam
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Ava DuVernay
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Okwui Okpokwasili
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Susan Meiselas
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Patrisse Cullors
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Lisa Kron
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