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Making Contact for October 30, 2007
9:30 PM - 10:00 PM
[Program Website]
Today's Highlight: "Rising XIV: International Changemakers in the Arts"
Women are gaining influence as leaders throughout the world, fighting for peace, justice, the environment, and civil society.
On this edition, "Making Contact" profiles four artist activists. Velina Brown is a core actor with the world famous San Francisco Mime Troupe. So Anne is a singer activist in Haiti. Jaishri Abichandani is an artist and curator with the South Asian Women's Creative Collective and Zimbabwean Rutendo Mudzamiri teams with the International Museum of Women to launch the "Imagining Ourselves" online art exhibit.
Featuring:
Velina Brown, actor in the San Francisco Mime Troup; So Anne, Hatian singer activist; Jaishri Abichandani, artist and curator with South Asian Women's Creative Collective; Rutendo Mudzamiri, artist and activist
Utilizing voices and perspectives rarely heard in media, Making Contact focuses on the human realities of politics, the connections between local and global events, and creative possibilities for people to engage in hopeful democratic change. Supported by independent funding sources, Making Contact is free to explore corporate connections to national and international policies.
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