PROGRAM GUIDE
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Agenda...... 7
Cultural Diplomat Award Winners...... 17
Artists-in-Residence...... 23
Steering Committee & Faculty...... 27
Panelists & Presenting Artists...... 37
Featured Participants...... 67
Notes...... 77
This program is current as of April 3rd. . For the most up-to-date agenda and speaker list, please visit our . website or download the CultureSummit 2017 app..
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CS2017_ProgramBooklet_A5.indd 3 4/4/17 1:34 AM CS2017_ProgramBooklet_A5.indd 4 4/4/17 1:34 AM Welcome to CultureSummit 2017 Abu Dhabi!
For this week’s event—the first of its kind—. CultureSummit 2017 Abu Dhabi has gathered a remarkable group of high-level public policy . leaders, artists, arts administrators, philanthropists, executives, and people who influence culture from . the worlds of media and technology.
Our participants are renowned creative thinkers and established leaders who have traveled to Abu Dhabi from more than 80 countries to discuss the moment when everyone on the planet will be connected . to a single global cultural ecosystem for the first time in history. From combating extremism to reversing climate change, from preserving culture to promoting the arts in education, we will explore the actions that these leaders can take to address global challenges.
The focus of CultureSummit is the future—emerging trends, opportunities, challenges, technologies, . and the rising generations who will shape and be shaped by the outcomes of our discussions.
This promises to be an exceptional week, and we . are delighted that you can join us.
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This program is current as of April 3rd.For the most up-to-date agenda and speaker list, please visit our website or down the CultureSummit 2017 app.
Sunday, April 9
12:00 – 6:00 p.m. Registration (Location: Host Hotels)
6:00 – 10:00 p.m. Welcome Dinner (Location: Park Hyatt) A Bright Line in History: Why Here, Why Now? During this first session, a panel will frame the summit with a discussion of the coming watershed moment in human history when everyone on the planet will be connected in a single global cultural ecosystem for the first time in history. This discussion will explore these ideas and themes for the participants and serve as a scene setter for the rest of the week. The focus of the summit is on the future, emerging trends, opportunities, challenges, technologies and the rising generations who will shape and be shaped by the outcomes of discussion throughout the week.
Monday, April 10
9:00 – 12:45 p.m. State of the Arts Plenary Universality and Uniqueness: Boundaries and that by Which We are Bound Together in a Connected World
9:00 – 9:15 a.m. Welcome Remarks
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CS2017_ProgramBooklet_A5.indd 9 4/4/17 1:34 AM 9:15 – 9:45 a.m. “Cases Studies in Connectedness: New Collaborations for a New World” H.E. Noura Al Kaabi, Minister of State, Federal . National Council Affairs; Chair, Media Zone . Authority-Abu Dhabi & twofour54 Irina Bokova, Director-General, UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Robert L. Lynch, President & CEO, Americans for the Arts
9:45 – 10:30 a.m. “Global Culture Hubs: The Role and Lessons of New Cities in an Urbanizing World” H.E. Mohamed Al Mubarak, Chairman, . Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority Richard Armstrong, Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim . Museum and Foundation Rula Jebreal, Visiting Professor, American University of Rome Ana Cristina Vargas, Architect
10:30-10:45 a.m. Keynote Address HH Sheikh Nahyan Al Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Culture, United Arab Emirates
Coffee Break for Conversation
11:00-11:15 a.m. Featured Performance Sandeep Das, Silk Road Project
11:15-11:45 a.m. “The Universals: What the Arts Tell Us About How We Can Come Together” Sabine Choucair, Artistic Director, Clown Me In Amb. Cynthia Schneider, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, Georgetown School of Public Service Dustin Yellin, Founder, Pioneer Works
11:45-12:15 p.m. “Globalization and the Other: Lessons from Refugees and The Dislocated” Octopizzo, Founder & Executive Director, . Octopizzo Foundation H.E. Faryad Rwandizi, Minister of Culture, Iraq Sherrie Westin, EVP, Global Impact & Philanthropy, . Sesame Workshop
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CS2017_ProgramBooklet_A5.indd 10 4/4/17 1:34 AM 12:15-12:45 p.m. “The Different Cultures of Funding Culture: A Look at Private Philanthropy, State Support and What Lies Between the Two” Werner Binnenstein-Bachstein,. Director, Community Arts Lab, Porticus Foundation Angela Migally, Executive Director,. Salama bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation Darren Walker, President, Ford Foundation
1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Lunch Conversation and Performance This lunch session will include a series of working conversations on the morning’s themes at tables . hosted by event faculty. Featured Performance Ana Tijoux with Ramiro Durán
Afternoon issue workshop series The afternoon programs for the event will follow CultureSummit’s Q-A-A format. On day one, workshops will focus on identifying the major questions that participants feel we need to be asking about the future of global arts and culture with a specific focus on how culture and coming changes in how culture is distributed and consumed can be used to produce positive social change. On day two, the workshops will focus on identifying the best answers the group can identify to those questions. And on day three, the groups will work on identifying the most effective and impactful actions they feel should be taken by artists, arts organizations, governments and other actors to help realize the answers identified in day two.
2:15 – 3:30 p.m. Issues Workshops – Framing the Questions
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CS2017_ProgramBooklet_A5.indd 11 4/4/17 1:34 AM 6:00 – 10:00 p.m. A Celebration of Our Artists in Residence (Location: Manarat al Saadiyat) Introductions & Conversation with . CultureSummit 2017 Artists-In-Residence: Tan Dun, Composer. Idris Khan, Visual Artist. Liz Lerman, Choreographer Featured Performance “Healing Wars”:. choreographed by Liz Lerman featuring Paul Hurley & Keith Thompson Nightcap Performance by DJ Tudo
Tuesday, April 11
9:00 – 12:10 p.m. S tate of the Arts Plenary Change Agents, Healers and Advocates: The Why of the Arts and Media in the New Global Cultural Reality
9:00 – 9:45 a.m. “The Why and How of Cultural Preservation in the Coming Decades” HE Dr. Zaki Anwar Nusseibeh, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs & International Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs & International Cooperation,Cultural Adviser, Ministry of Presidential Affairs Zaki Aslan, Arab States Representative, ICCROM HRH Dana Firas, President, Petra National Trust Mariët Westermann, Executive Vice President, . Andrew Mellon Foundation
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CS2017_ProgramBooklet_A5.indd 12 4/4/17 1:34 AM 10:30-10:50 a.m. Featured Performances Julian Crouch & Saskia Lane’s Birdheart
10:50 – 11:20 a.m. “The Arts and Fighting Climate Change” Fabrice Monteiro, Photographer Aurora Robson, Founding Artist, Project Vortex Sibylle Szaggars Redford, Founder, President & Artistic Director, The Way of the Rain
11:20 – 11:50 a.m. “The Arts and Gender Equity” Jamila Afghani, Executive Director, Noor Educational & Capacity Development Organization Alyse Nelson, CEO, Vital Voices Adejoke Tugbiyele, Artist
11:50 – 12:10 p.m. Featured Performances Nástio Mosquito, Multimedia & Performance Artist Sarah Elizabeth Charles, Vocalist
12:30 – 2:00 p.m. Lunchtime Conversation and Expo 2020 Dubai Preview Dr. Tarek Oliviera Shayya, Director, International Affairs Department, Minister of State; Office Board Director, Expo 2020 Manal Al Bayat, Senior Vice President Business Development and Integration, Expo 2020 Dr. Hayat Shamsuddin, Senior Advisor, Culture, Expo 2020 Moderator: Dyala Nusseibeh, Director, Abu Dhabi Art, Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority
Afternoon issue workshop series
2:15 – 3:30 p.m. Issues Workshops – Seeking Answers What is in the Minds and Hearts of the Rising Generations?
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CS2017_ProgramBooklet_A5.indd 13 4/4/17 1:34 AM 5:30 – 10:00 p.m. Cultural Diplomats of the Year Awards Dinner (Location: The Ritz Carlton) Awards in Cultural Diplomacy Presented to: Dr. Madeleine K. Albright, Former US Secretary of State . & Chair, Albright Stonebridge Group El Sistema (represented by Eduardo Mendez, Executive Director, Fundacion Musical Simón Bolívar) HE Dr. Anwar Mohammed Gargash, Minister of State. Foreign Affairs, Minister of State, Federal National Council Affairs HE Dr. Zaki Anwar Nusseibeh, Assistant Minister . of Foreign Affairs & International Cooperation, . Ministry of Foreign Affairs & International Cooperation, Cultural Adviser, Ministry of Presidential Affairs Sesame Workshop (represented by Sherrie Westin, EVP, Social Impact & Philanthropy) West-Eastern Divan Orchestra (represented by Tabaré Perlas, CEO) Featured Performance Maya Beiser, Cellist Nightcap Performance Young Paris with DJ Acidophilus
Wednesday, April 12
9:00 – 12:20 p.m. State of the Arts Plenary A Day of Vision: Technology and How It Will Change Everything
9:00 – 9:30 a.m. “The Arts & Advocacy: Confronting the Challenges of Our Time” Dr. Madeleine K. Albright, Former U.S. Secretary of State; Chair, Albright Stonebridge Group
9:30 – 10:15 a.m. “Innovators Roundtable: Visions for a Different Tomorrow” Tracy Fullerton, Chair, Interactive Media & Games Department, University of Southern California Aaron Koblin, Co-Founder & CTO, Within Horacio Lecona, Creative Director, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Matthew Putman, Nanoscientist, Musician and. Board Chair, Pioneer Works
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CS2017_ProgramBooklet_A5.indd 14 4/4/17 1:34 AM 10:15 – 10:35 a.m. Featured Performance Emeline Michel with Studio at the Summit. (Christopher Marianetti, Jeremy Thal, Kyla-Rose Smith)
Coffee Break for Conversation
10:50 – 11:20 a.m. “The Unintended Consequences of Technological Change” Bill Bragin, Executive Artistic Director, NYU Abu Dhabi Arts Center Samantha Diamond, CEO, CultureConnect Kristy Edmunds, Executive & Artistic Director. Center for the Art of Performance, UCLA
11:20 – 11:50 a.m. “The Future of Culture” Princess Alia Al-Senussi, Chair, Tate Young Patrons Board; Advisor, Art Basel Adrian Ellis, Director, AEA Consulting; Director and Co-Founder, Global Cultural Districts Network (GCDN) H.E. Saif Saeed Ghobash, Director General, Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority Deborah Rutter, President, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
11:50 – 12:20 p.m. Featured Performances Mutabaruka, Dub Poet Jo Lawry, Singer Songwriter
12:30 – 2:00 p.m. Lunchtime Conversation and Artist-in-Residence Discussion A conversation on “Disruptive Art and a Disrupted Future” with Artist-in-Residence Idris Khan
Afternoon issue workshop series
2:15 – 3:30 p.m. Issues Workshops – Action Agenda Next Generation Collaborations and Where They May Lead
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CS2017_ProgramBooklet_A5.indd 15 4/4/17 1:34 AM 5:00 – 9:00 p.m. Cultural Trade Routes Dinner and Performances (Location: Park Hyatt) On this special evening the food and the performances will be curated to illustrate the flow of all forms of culture from and through the Middle East to Asia and China as well as to Africa, Europe and the Americas. It will illustrate cultural connections over the centuries and speculate about where they may go in the future.
5:45 – 7:00 pm Artist-in-Residence Presentation Tan Dun, Academy Award-Winning Composer
7:00 – 9:00 pm Dinner and Performances Curating Chef Simon Majumdar, Food Channel Featured Performance Falu, Singer/Songwriter Nightcap Performance DJ Beco with Flavio Renegado
Thursday, April 13
9:00 – 10:00 a.m. State of the Arts Plenary Solutions: Emerging Opportunities, Generations and Risks and the Answers the Arts Can Provide for Each For this session we will invite the workshop faculty . plus selected individuals to offer their key “action item” conclusions for the event before opening the . conversation to the entire group. Featured Performance Tim Casson, “The Dance WE Made”
10:00 – 11:00 a.m. A Preview of the Louvre Abu Dhabi
11:00 – 12:30 p.m. A Special Closing Performance The Way of the Rain
12:30 – 1:30 p.m. Lunchtime Conversation and Closing Remarks
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CS2017_ProgramBooklet_A5.indd 16 4/4/17 1:34 AM CULTURAL DIPLOMAT AWARD WINNERS
CS2017_ProgramBooklet_A5.indd 17 4/4/17 1:34 AM CS2017_ProgramBooklet_A5.indd 18 4/4/17 1:34 AM Dr. Madeleine K. Albright El Sistema Former U.S. Secretary Represented by Eduardo Mendez, of State Chair, Albright Executive Director, Stonebridge Group Fundacion Musical Simón Bolívar Madeleine K. Albright is chair of the Born in Caracas, Venezuela on Dec. Albright Stonebridge Group, a global 6, 1978, the younger brother of two, strategy firm, and Albright Capital Eduardo Mendez grew up in Merida Management LLC, an investment with his parents, Laura and Gustavo. advisory firm focused on emerging At the age of 5, he started playing markets. In 1997, Albright became the violin in a nucleo and continued the 64th secretary of state of the to play in the Chacao’s nucleo in United States. She was the first female Caracas until he auditioned for the secretary of state and, at that time, the Simon Bolivar Orchestra. Mendez highest-ranking woman in the history was accepted and played with the of the U.S. government. From 1993 to orchestra, traveling on several inter- 1997, Albright was the U.S. permanent national tours in America and Europe, representative to the United Nations until 2003. He graduated from the law and a member of the president’s cab- school at the Universidad Catolica inet. She is a professor in the practice Andres Bello in 2000 and graduated of diplomacy at the Georgetown as a magister in public policies from University School of Foreign Service. IESA in 2007. Maestro Jose Antonio Albright chairs the National Demo- Abreu, as executive director of El cratic Institute for International Affairs. Sistema, named him in 2008 after 12 She is the president of the Truman years of uninterrupted work alongside Scholarship Foundation. In 2012, she him. Mendez continues in his role as was chosen by President Barack executive director today. Obama to receive the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in recognition of her con- tributions to international peace and democracy.
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CS2017_ProgramBooklet_A5.indd 19 4/4/17 1:34 AM H.E. Dr. Anwar Bin H.E. Zaki Anwar Nusseibeh Mohammed Gargash Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs Cabinet Member and Minister of and International Cooperation, State for Foreign Affairs Cultural Advisor, Ministry of His Excellency Dr. Anwar Mohammed Presidential Affairs Gargash was appointed in 2006 as His Excellency Zaki Anwar Nusseibeh Minister of State for Federal National has been active in service of the gov- Council Affairs. In February 2008, His ernment and as an interpreter for the Excellency Dr. Gargash was given the presidents of the United Arab Emirates additional responsibility of Minister of since 1968. He is the assistant minister State for Foreign Affairs. In February of foreign affairs and international 2016, he has been appointed as cooperation at the Foreign Ministry Minister of State for Foreign Affairs. His and the cultural advisor at the UAE Excellency holds a number of positions Presidential Court. Nusseibeh was in addition to his Ministerial positions deputy chairman of the Abu Dhabi as he is the Chairman of the National Culture and Heritage Authority since Elections Committee, overseeing the 2006. Following its amalgamation UAE’s first elections which took place with Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority in in 2006 and the subsequent elections 2012, he continued as a board mem- in 2011 and 2015. He is also the Chair- ber of the newly formed entity, con- man of the National Committee to tributing to the development of some Combat Human Trafficking, the Chair- of Abu Dhabi’s major cultural and art man of the Board of Trustees of the Al initiatives. He has served as a trustee Owais Cultural Foundation, Member of the Sheikh Zayed Award and the of the Board of Trustees of the Emir- International Prize for Arab Fiction. He ates Diplomatic Academy and Leads is the chairman of the London School the UAE team for the Human Rights of Economics LSE Middle East Centre Periodic Review. Dr. Gargash received Advisory. He is also the president of his Ph.D from King’s College. the Alliance Francaise Abu Dhabi.
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CS2017_ProgramBooklet_A5.indd 20 4/4/17 1:34 AM Sesame Workshop West-Eastern Divan Orchestra Represented by Sherrie Rollins Represented by Westin, Executive Vice President, Tabaré Perlas, CEO Global Impact and Philanthropy Tabaré Perlas has been chairman Sherrie Rollins Westin is executive vice of the Daniel Barenboim Founda- president, Global Impact and Philan- tion since 2007. He manages the thropy for Sesame Workshop, the international network of foundations nonprofit organization behind Sesame created by Barenboim as well as the Street. Westin oversees the workshop’s West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, which programs, addressing the needs of he has accompanied since its creation children from India to South Africa to in 1999 in Weimar, Germany, by the United States and providing early Barenboim and the late philosopher education through mass media and Edward Said. Israeli, Palestinian, and targeted initiatives. Westin’s career other Arab musicians who had inter- spans media, the private sector, acted only with one another through nonprofit, and public service. She was the prism of war found themselves assistant to the president for public living, working, and making music liaison and intergovernmental affairs together as equals. The utopian under President George H.W. Bush, experiment in promoting common assistant secretary for public affairs at understanding quickly evolved into the U.S. Department of Housing and a legendary orchestra, which has Urban Development, and held senior given concerts every year in the most positions at the ABC television network prestigious venues of the world. The and U.S. News & World Report. Westin Barenboim-Said Academy and its serves on the boards of UNICEF, the Pierre Boulez concert hall, which Per- U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, las helped create on these principles, and Mount Holyoke College. She is opened, respectively, in December a member of the Council on Foreign 2016 and March 2017 in Berlin. Relations and was named a 2016 Leading Global Thinker by Foreign Policy magazine. Westin holds an honorary doctorate from Concordia College and graduated from the Uni- versity of Virginia.
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CS2017_ProgramBooklet_A5.indd 23 4/4/17 1:34 AM CS2017_ProgramBooklet_A5.indd 24 4/4/17 1:34 AM Tan Dun Idris Khan Academy Award Winning Visual Artist Composer/Conductor Born in Birmingham in 1978, Idris The world renowned artist and . Khan lives and works in London. UNESCO Global Goodwill Ambassa- Since completing his master’s degree dor Tan Dun, has made an indelible at the Royal College of Art in London mark on the world’s music scene with in 2004, he has shown internation- a creative repertoire that spans the ally multiple times, including his boundaries of classical music, multi most recent solo show at the New media performance, and Eastern Art Gallery Walsall, Birmingham and Western traditions. A winner (2017). Drawing inspiration from the of today’s most prestigious honors history of art and music as well as key including the Grammy Award, Oscar/ philosophical and theological texts, Academy Award, Grawemeyer Khan investigates memory, creativity, Award for classical composition, and the layering of experience. Khan Musical America’s Composer of the is known for his large-scale works — Year, Bach Prize and Shostakovich sculpture, painting, and photography Award, Tan Dun’s music has been — in which techniques of layering played throughout the world by are used to arrive at what might be leading orchestras, opera houses, considered the essence of an image, international festivals, and on the and to create something entirely . radio and television. Most recently, new through repetition and super- Tan Dun conducted the grand imposition. Khan has a permanent opening celebration of Disneyland public monument, forming the Shanghai which was broadcast to centerpiece of the new Memorial a record-breaking audience of 65 Park in Abu Dhabi. million people worldwide. Tan Dun has previously served as Chair of Carnegie Hall’s China Committee, Creative Chair of the 2014 Philadel- phia Orchestra China Tour, Associate Composer/Conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony, and Artistic Direc- tor of the Festival Water Crossing Fire held at the Barbican Centre.
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CS2017_ProgramBooklet_A5.indd 25 4/4/17 1:34 AM Liz Lerman Choreographer Liz Lerman is a choreographer, per- former, writer, educator, and speaker and the recipient of numerous honors, including a 2002 MacArthur “Genius Grant” and a 2011 United States Artists Ford fellowship in dance. A key aspect of her artistry is opening her process to various publics from shipbuilders to physicists, resulting in research and outcomes that are participatory, relevant, urgent, and usable by others. She founded the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange in 1976 and led it until 2011. Her most recent work, “Healing Wars,” toured across the United States in 2014-15. Lerman conducts residencies on the critical response process, creative research, the intersection of art and science, and the building of narrative within dance performance at such institu- tions as Harvard University, the Yale School of Drama, Wesleyan Univer- sity, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and the National Theatre Studio, among others. Her third book, Hiking the Horizontal: Field Notes from a Choreographer, was pub- lished in 2011 by Wesleyan University Press. Liz Lerman most recently won the 2017 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award, a prestigious honor in acknowledge- ment of her vision and outstanding contributions to the dance field.
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CS2017_ProgramBooklet_A5.indd 27 4/4/17 1:34 AM CS2017_ProgramBooklet_A5.indd 28 4/4/17 1:34 AM H.E. Noura bint Mohammed H.E. Mohamed Khalifa Al Kaabi Al Mubarak Minister of State for Federal Chairman of the Abu Dhabi National Council Affairs Tourism & Culture Authority Chairwoman of the Media Zone (TCA Abu Dhabi) Authority — Abu Dhabi (MZA) and H.E. Mohamed Khalifa Al Mubarak is twofour54 chairman of the Abu Dhabi Tourism & Her Excellency Noura bint Moham- Culture Authority, which oversees the med Al Kaabi was appointed as the conservation and promotion of Abu United Arab Emirates minister of state Dhabi’s heritage and culture, lever- for federal national council affairs in aging them to develop distinctive February 2016. In this role, Al Kaabi Abu Dhabi experiences designed to acts as the key link and facilitator enrich the lives of visitors and resi- between the cabinet and the Federal dents. In 2016, Khalifa was appointed National Council. Al Kaabi is chair- chairman of the Tourism Develop- woman of the Media Zone Authority ment & Investment Co. (TDIC), master — Abu Dhabi (MZA) and twofour54, developer of major tourism, cultural, the home of media and entertain- and residential destinations in Abu ment in Abu Dhabi, and chairwoman Dhabi. Khalifa is also chairman of of Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Co. Miral Asset Management, which is (ADNEC Group). She is also a board responsible for creating and man- member of the UAE’s National Media aging destinations in Abu Dhabi Council, Abu Dhabi Media, Image focused on building lifelong visitor Nation, and the Abu Dhabi Sports value for the emirate. Khalifa is CEO Council. Al Kaabi is the first UAE of Aldar Properties PJSC, Abu Dhabi’s national to be ranked on Foreign leading property development and Policy magazine’s Top 100 Global management company as well as Thinkers List. In 2014, she was named chairman of Aldar Academies, one one of Forbes Middle East’s 30 Most of the largest providers of modern Influential Women in Government. private education in Abu Dhabi. He She was awarded Business Woman is chairman of Image Nation Abu of the Year at the Gulf Business Indus- Dhabi, one of the leading content try Awards. creators for film and television in the Middle East.
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CS2017_ProgramBooklet_A5.indd 29 4/4/17 1:34 AM Carla Dirlikov Canales David J. Rothkopf CEO and Founder, TCP Venture CEO and Editor, The FP Group Carla Dirlikov Canales is an inter- David J. Rothkopf is CEO and nationally known opera singer who editor of the FP Group, where he has established herself as a leader in oversees all editorial, publishing, using the arts to advance important events, and other operations of the social issues. She is a member of the company, which publishes Foreign President’s Committee on the Arts Policy magazine. Rothkopf is the and Humanities Turnaround Arts Pro- author of numerous internationally gram, was selected by Foreign Policy acclaimed books, including Power, magazine as one of its 100 Leading Inc., Superclass, Running the World, Global Thinkers in 2015 and won the and National Insecurity: American Medal of Excellence from the Sphinx Leadership in an Age of Fear. His Organization. In each case, she was newest book, The Great Questions the first opera singer to receive the of Tomorrow, will be published in honor. As a singer, she has received April. He writes a weekly column for worldwide acclaim and is best ForeignPolicy.com and is a frequent known for her portrayals of Bizet’s contributor to leading newspapers “Carmen,” which she has performed and magazines, including the New more than 80 times in a dozen York Times, the Washington Post, the countries. She has performed as a Financial Times, CNN, Newsweek, soloist at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Time, and many others. He is the host Center, Carnegie Hall, and top inter- of “The Editor’s Roundtable” (“The national venues in Europe, Asia, and E.R.”) podcast, a weekly program Latin America. She is the founder and that examines the big issues of the CEO of the Canales Project, aimed day. Rothkopf is a visiting scholar at at giving voice to issues of identity the Carnegie Endowment for Interna- and culture through music and con- tional Peace. versation. Canales also maintains a practice as an independent curator and is co-founder of a Washington, D.C.-based public arts program.
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CS2017_ProgramBooklet_A5.indd 30 4/4/17 1:34 AM Werner Binnenstein-Bachstein Bill Bragin Director of Community Arts Lab, Artistic Director, New York Porticus Foundation University Abu Dhabi Arts Center Dr. Werner Binnenstein-Bachstein Bill Bragin is the founding executive was born in 1969 in Vorarlberg, artistic director of the Arts Center at Austria. He started his professional New York University Abu Dhabi, a career as an assistant professor in game-changer in the United Arab the Department for Social Policy, Emirates. Previously, as director of focusing on research of nonprofit public programming of New York’s organizations, volunteering, and Lincoln Center for the Perform- social inclusion. During this time, he ing Arts, he attracted hundreds of was a director of the Competence thousands of audience members to Centre for Nonprofit Organizations at the Midsummer Night Swing and the Vienna University of Econom- Lincoln Center Out of Doors festivals, ics and Business. In March 2013, and commissioned and premiered he started to work for Porticus as numerous works in various disciplines. a regional director for Central and He set the artistic vision for the David Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Rubenstein Atrium, which opened In January 2016, he assumed a new during his tenure. Previously, as role as a director of the Community director of Joe’s Pub at the Public Arts Laboratory, an initiative closely Theater, he commissioned and linked to Porticus. He is a co-founder helped develop the Tony Award-win- of superar, a music initiative based ing musical Passing Strange. Bragin is on an El-Sistema model. He worked co-founding producer of the not-for- closely with orchestras, co-organized profit world music festival and service the opening of the music festival Wie- organization globalFEST and a for- ner Festwochen in 2007, and the first mer member of the board of trustees collaboration between the superar of the Association of Performing Arts group and the Vienna Philharmonic Professionals. As “Acidophilus,” he is at the Summer Night Concert in 2012. internationally recognized as part of the GlobeSonic Sound System.
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CS2017_ProgramBooklet_A5.indd 31 4/4/17 1:34 AM Sandeep Das Kristy Edmunds “Silk Road Project” Artistic Director, Center for the Art Sandeep Das is considered one of of Performance, UCLA the leading Tabla exponents in the An artist, curator, and artistic direc- world. His collaboration with the Silk tor, Kristy Edmunds is recognized Road Ensemble for “Sing Me Home” for innovation and depth in the won the 2017 Grammy Award for the presentation of works by contem- Best World Music Album. Before this porary artists, with an emphasis on win, he was nominated for a Grammy contemporary performing arts. In her Award in 2005 and 2009. His pro- current role at UCLA’s performing fessional career spanning 23 years arts program CAP UCLA, Edmunds has seen him composing and playing is shepherding an exciting new era. with the legendary cellist Yo-Yo Ma Under her leadership, the organi- and the Silk Road Ensemble, string zation has evolved into a creative quartets, and orchestras such as the habitat for supporting artists in the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago presentation of their work. Edmunds Symphony Orchestra, and the Boston previously served as the consulting Symphony Orchestra, to name a few. artistic director for the Park Avenue His concerts have taken him regularly Armory in New York from 2009-2012. to major centers of music around the Previously, she was artistic director globe, including Carnegie Hall, Lin- for the Melbourne International Arts coln Center, Royce Hall, Royal Albert Festival from 2005-2008, the first Hall, Hollywood Bowl, Kennedy Cen- to serve a four-year term. She was ter, and the Concertgebouw. To his the founding executive and artistic credit he has 40 CDs, three of which director of the Portland Institute have been Grammy nominated. for Contemporary Art and the TBA Festival (Time Based Art) in Portland, Oregon. In 2016, Edmunds was named Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication.
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CS2017_ProgramBooklet_A5.indd 32 4/4/17 1:34 AM Nora Halpern Sarah Johnson Vice President, Leadership Director, Weill Center for Music, Alliances Americans for the Arts Carnegie Hall Trained as an art historian and cura- As director of the Weill Music Insti- tor, Halpern joined Americans for the tute, Sarah Johnson is responsible for Arts in 2001, following four years as a developing and overseeing Carnegie DPhil advisor in art history at the Uni- Hall’s education and social impact versity of Oxford, where she also was programs. The Weill Music Institute an independent curator. Before living annually serves over 500,000 chil- in England, Halpern was curator of dren, students, teachers, parents, the Frederick R. Weisman Collections young music professionals, and in Los Angeles, founding director adults in the New York metropoli- of the museum at Pepperdine Uni- tan area, across the United States, versity, and director of Fine Arts for and around the world. Johnson Sotheby’s. She has received the Los has led the Weill Music Institute in Angeles Mayor’s Award of Merit and enormous programmatic growth and a Helena Rubinstein fellowship from has launched numerous initiatives, the Whitney Museum of American including Musical Connections, Art. She is on the board of Scholas- serving people in health care settings tic’s Alliance for Young Artists and and correctional facilities, including Writers and formerly served on the juvenile justice settings; the National boards of the Los Angeles Institute of Youth Orchestra of the United States Contemporary Art, the Santa Monica of America; and most recently NYO2, Museum of Art, ArtTable, and PS Arts. a summer training program for out- standing musicians 14 to 17 years old. She was the 2013 American Express NGen Leadership Award winner, an honor given each year to an accom- plished leader under age 40 who has demonstrated significant impact in addressing society’s critical needs.
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CS2017_ProgramBooklet_A5.indd 33 4/4/17 1:34 AM Naima Lahbil Tagemouati Robert L. Lynch Academic Expert President and CEO, Americans for Naima Lahbil Tagemouati was a pro- the Arts fessor of economics at Fez University Robert L. Lynch is president and and then took on the role of director CEO of Americans for the Arts and of the Fes Festival of Sacred Music. the Americans for the Arts Action She is now a freelance consultant Fund. With more than 42 years of and novelist. She works mainly on experience in the arts industry, he is culture as a tool for development, motivated by his mission to empower rehabilitation of old cities (especially communities and leaders to advance the Fez medina), and poor housing the arts in society and in the lives and slums. She had published many of our citizens. Bringing a national articles and scientific books, short perspective to local arts issues, Lynch stories, and novels, among them Dia- serves on the board of the Inde- logue en medina, La liste. and Fès pendent Sector. He has served two est une drogue. Her novels and short terms on the U.S. Travel and Tourism stories are inspired from her work in Advisory Board, a position appointed the field. by the U.S. secretary of commerce. He was the 2017 inaugural recipient of the JFK Commonwealth Award from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation. Lynch received a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Massachusetts-Am- herst and enjoys playing the piano, mandolin, and guitar. He lives in Washington, D.C.
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CS2017_ProgramBooklet_A5.indd 34 4/4/17 1:34 AM Simon Majumdar Panos Panay Chef and TV personality Director, Berklee Institute for Simon Majumdar is a world-. Creative Entrepreneurship renowned broadcaster, food writer, Panos Panay is the founder and author, and cook who has dedicated managing director of the Berklee the second half of his time on this Institute for Creative Entrepreneurship planet to fulfill his ambition to “go as well as a passionate entrepreneur, everywhere, eat everything.” The educator, and startup mentor. As journey has taken him to all 50 states the founder of Sonicbids, he created and dozens of countries around the leading platform for bands to the world. He has written hundreds book gigs and market themselves of articles for such outlets as The online, building a subscriber net- Guardian, Foodnetwork.com, The work of 550,000 bands and 35,000 Times of London, and The Daily promoters from over 100 countries. Beast. He has also written three He led the company as CEO for 13 books, Eat My Globe (2009), Eating years, from its inception until after for Britain (2011), and Fed, White its successful acquisition in a deal and Blue (2015), which catalogs backed by Guggenheim Partners. his journey to American citizenship. Panay is the co-founder of the Open Majumdar also is a well-recognized Music Initiative, which has brought television personality, regularly together over 140 leading music, appearing on such shows as Cut- media, technology industry organi- throat Kitchen, Beat Bobby Flay, Iron zations, and academic institutions Chef America, The Next Iron Chef, to create a blockchain-based open The Best Thing I Ever Ate (Food Net- protocol for uniform identification of work), EAT: The Story of Food (Nat. musical-rights owners and creators. Geo), and Man vs. Master (FYI). He His work and approach to entrepre- lives in Los Angeles. neurial and innovation pedagogy builds heavily on music thinking, in particular jazz, as a catalyst for creative breakthroughs in business, life, and art.
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CS2017_ProgramBooklet_A5.indd 35 4/4/17 1:34 AM Sophia Welz Managing Director, South African National Youth Orchestra Foundation Sophia Welz is the managing director of the South African National Youth Orchestra Foundation and has two main passions: music and people — more specifically, the ability of music to empower people. She has varied experience in the public and private sectors and community environments, as well as in music performance and arts management. Believing that well-rounded musicians become well-rounded people, her ambition is to create a South Africa that offers equal access to high-quality music education.
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CS2017_ProgramBooklet_A5.indd 37 4/4/17 1:34 AM CS2017_ProgramBooklet_A5.indd 38 4/4/17 1:34 AM Jamila Afghani Princess Alia Al-Senussi Executive Director, Noor Chair of Tate Young Patrons Board Educational and Capacity Advisor, Art Basel Development Organization Princess Alia Al-Senussi holds mas- Jamila Afghani has been the head ter’s degree in political science from of NECDO since 2001. NECDO is Brown University and an MSc in law, a nonprofit, local, women NGO anthropology, and society from the registered with Afghan government. London School of Economics. She is During the Russian invasion she immi- studying toward her Ph.D. in politics grated to Peshawar Pakistan where at SOAS (London). Al-Senussi is an she completed her secondary and active member of the contemporary higher education. She has two master art world, with a focus on young degrees in Sharia Law & International patronage and arts and culture in Relations from Peshawar University. the Middle East, holding a variety of Ms. Afghani has always worked in the nonprofit board and committee posi- field of education, serving the Afghan tions that promote young patronage youths and women in the refugee of the arts in London and collecting camps in Peshawar and remained a in the Middle East. The majority of the woman activist defending the rights philanthropic work Al-Senussi does of women in the light of Islamic law is through chairing, founding, and and the international law. She has running museum patrons groups as initiated several fruitful projects for chair of the Tate Young Patrons, the the empowerment of women, youths Board of Patrons of Art Dubai (serv- & children socially, economically in 18 ing an integral role in the founding of provinces of the country. One of the the fair), and the Middle East Circle initiatives, working with Imams (reli- of the Guggenheim. Al-Senussi is the gious leaders) on human rights and representative to the United Kingdom women rights, has received interna- and the Middle East for Art Basel. tional recognition. She has received the religious Peace Maker Award from Tananbaum and many national and international appreciation and award.
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CS2017_ProgramBooklet_A5.indd 39 4/4/17 1:34 AM Manal AlBayat Richard Armstrong Senior Vice President, Business Director, Guggenheim Museum Development and Integration, Expo and Guggenheim Foundation 2020 Dubai Richard Armstrong has served as Manal AlBayat is senior vice president director of the Solomon R. Guggen- of business development and integra- heim Museum and Foundation since tion at Expo 2020 Dubai. Her respon- November 2008. As head of the sibilities include developing outreach Guggenheim’s executive staff, he programs and collaborative platforms focuses on the pivotal role of the New for local, regional, and international York museum and its collection while businesses that will not only facilitate providing leadership and manage- their integration into the Expo supply ment for the other institutions in the chain, but also drive global business global Guggenheim network and for connectivity and long-term growth. the foundation’s international pro- Before joining the Expo 2020 Dubai grams. Armstrong works with senior team, AlBayat founded HEADSTART, staff to maximize all aspects of the a strategy and human capital consul- foundation’s operations: permanent tancy, where she advised corporates collections, exhibition programs, on such matters as reputational loans, acquisitions, documenta- positioning, stakeholder engagement, tion, scholarship, and conservation. and human capital policies and Armstrong serves in an advisory processes. AlBayat holds an MBA capacity on a number of foundation from DePaul University with a con- boards, including the Victor Pinchuk centration in marketing and change Foundation, Kiev, Ukraine; the Artistic management as well as a bachelor’s Council, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, degree in organizational manage- Switzerland; the Al Held Foundation, ment from Purdue University. She has New York; and the Judd Foundation; spoken on panels across the globe and as director, Fine Family Founda- on a wide range of topics, including tion, Pittsburgh. Armstrong is a mem- community and international engage- ber of the Association of Art Museum ment initiatives, the role of women in Directors. A native of Kansas City, the economy, and enabling human Missouri, Armstrong graduated from capital to achieve its potential in the Lake Forest College in Illinois with public and private sectors, all vital a BA in art history. He subsequently components to Expo 2020 Dubai’s studied at the Université de Dijon and efforts to engage and inspire. the Université de Paris, Sorbonne.
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CS2017_ProgramBooklet_A5.indd 40 4/4/17 1:34 AM H.E. Zaki Anwar Nusseibeh Dr. Zaki Aslan Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs ICCROM and International Cooperation Zaki Aslan is a conservation archi- Cultural Advisor, Ministry of tect who has been the manager Presidential Affairs of ICCROM’s ATHAR Program His Excellency Zaki Anwar Nusseibeh (Conservation of Cultural Heritage has been active in service of the in the Arab Region) since 2003. government and as an interpreter Aslan provided technical advice and for the presidents of the United extensive training programs to the Arab Emirates since 1968. He is the Arab states in the Mediterranean and assistant minister of foreign affairs the Gulf countries on issues related and international cooperation at to heritage conservation, manage- the Foreign Ministry and the cultural ment, and planning, World Heritage advisor at the UAE Presidential Court. procedures, national heritage strat- Nusseibeh was deputy chairman of egies and governance, as well as the Abu Dhabi Culture and Heritage education and curricula develop- Authority since 2006. Following its ment at the graduate level. A 1988 amalgamation with Abu Dhabi Tour- graduate in architecture, Aslan holds ism Authority in 2012, he continued a Ph.D. in heritage conservation and as a board member of the newly management from the University Col- formed entity, contributing to the lege London and a M.Sc. degree in development of some of Abu Dhabi’s conservation of the built environment major cultural and art initiatives. He from the University of Montreal (1991). has served as a trustee of the Sheikh He is co-author of a UNESCO-IC- Zayed Award and the International CROM teacher’s guide titled “Intro- Prize for Arab Fiction. He is the ducing Young People to Heritage Site chairman of the London School of Management and Protection” and Economics LSE Middle East Centre editor of ICCROM-ATHAR Publication Advisory. He is also the president of Series: Issues in the Conservation of the Alliance Francaise Abu Dhabi Cultural Heritage in the Arab Region. and the UAE chapter of the Inter- Aslan is an advisory member at the national Friends of Richard Wagner 2nd Category World Heritage Centre Society. for the Arab states in Bahrain.
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CS2017_ProgramBooklet_A5.indd 41 4/4/17 1:34 AM Maya Beiser Alfredo Bello aka DJ Tudo Cellist A researcher of Brazilian traditional Cellist Maya Beiser is passionately expressions, Alfredo Bello has a col- forging a career path through lection of over 2,000 hours of original uncharted territories, captivating music and video footage. Together audiences worldwide with her with a collection of 16,000 LPs, it is virtuosity, eclectic repertoire, and considered one of the most important relentless quest to redefine her ethnomusicological collections of instrument’s boundaries. Raised traditional music in Brazil. The gath- in the Galilee Mountains in Israel, ering of this vast material led to the surrounded by the music and rituals creation of the label Mundo Melhor of Jews, Muslims, and Christians while (www.selomundomelhor.org), docu- studying classical cello repertoire, menting the traditions of several com- Beiser has dedicated her work to munities across Brazil. DJ Tudo was reinventing solo cello performance born after adding bass, sampling, in the mainstream classical arena. percussion, keyboards, and program- Beiser is a 2015 United States Artists ming to his musical knowledge, a distinguished fellow in music and project that searches for new artistic a 2017 Mellon distinguished visiting experiences by combining traditional artist at MIT. Her vast discography folkloric music and electronic music, includes 10 solo albums. Her latest creating a unique way of being a DJ, album, TranceClassical, released linking and overlapping traditional in July 2016, debuted at No. 1 on the and contemporary/electronic music. Apple Music classical chart. Her album Uncovered, a collection of re-imagined classic rock, also topped the classical music charts, making the No. 1 spot on both Amazon and iTunes. Beiser was a founding mem- ber of the Bang on a Can All-Stars and is a graduate of Yale University.
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CS2017_ProgramBooklet_A5.indd 42 4/4/17 1:34 AM Irina Bokova Tim Casson Director-General, UNESCO Performer Irina Bokova, who was born in Sofia, Tim Casson is a performer, choreog- Bulgaria, has been the director-gen- rapher, and dance educator based eral of UNESCO since November 15, in London. He trained in dance at 2009, and re-elected in 2013. She is the BRIT School and studied musi- the first woman to lead the organi- cal theater at Bird College before zation. She graduated from Moscow completing an MA in contemporary State Institute of International Rela- dance at the London Contemporary tions and studied at the University of Dance School. Casson has performed Maryland (Washington) and the John internationally and taught extensively F. Kennedy School of Government for the Jasmin Vardimon Company, (Harvard University). Bokova joined creating their JV2 postgraduate the United Nations Department at program. He has performed for Nigel the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bul- Charnock, Katie Green, and Ben garia in 1977. As a member of parlia- Wright. Casson has been featured ment (1990- 1991 and 2001-2005), she in various music videos, commer- participated in the drafting of Bulgar- cials, and the movie World War Z. ia’s new constitution, which con- Described as “the friendliest man tributed significantly to the country’s in dance,” Casson regularly leads accession to the European Union. As educational projects for a wide director-general of UNESCO, Bokova range of dance organizations, such is actively engaged in international as Sadler’s Wells Theatre, where he efforts to advance quality educa- has worked extensively with the U.K.’s tion for all, gender equality, cultural National Youth Dance Company. dialogue, and scientific cooperation Casson has held associate artist posi- for sustainable development. She tions at Pavilion Dance South West is leading UNESCO as a global and dancedigital (U.K.), created advocate for the safety of journalists the World Record Breaking online and freedom of expression. Bokova is performance project, “The Dance co-vice chair of the Broadband Com- WE Made,” and directs his company, mission and chair of the U.N. High Casson & Friends, creating work with Level Committee on Management. a focus on collaboration, interaction, and joy.
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CS2017_ProgramBooklet_A5.indd 43 4/4/17 1:34 AM Panmela Castro Sarah Elizabeth Charles President, NAMI Rede Feminista Vocalist De Arte Urbana Sarah Elizabeth Charles is a rising Panmela Castro, who was born in vocalist/composer based in New Rio de Janeiro in 1981, has a master’s York. She has worked and studied degree in contemporary artistic with artists such as George Cables, processes from the State University Geri Allen, and Nicholas Payton of Rio de Janeiro and graduated in and released her debut record, painting from the School of Fine Arts “Red,” in September 2012 with her at the University of Rio de Janeiro. She band, SCOPE. As the active vocalist is Brazilian, a feminist, human rights in a number of bands, Charles has activist, art collector, cultural entre- performed at many venues, includ- preneur, and a promoter of street ing the White House, the Kennedy art produced by women in Brazil. In Center, and the Rose Theatre with 2005, Castro initiated a collection of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Charles is the work of street artists, the majority also an active educator. She works of which were by women. She per- as a teaching artist with Carnegie forms a curatorial role with the aim of Hall and is developing an early encouraging the production of work childhood music education program by such artists. She also founded with Rise2Shine, a nonprofit based Rede NAMI, a feminist organization in Fond Parisien, Haiti. Her critically that unites various artistic talents and acclaimed sophomore project, . seeks to promote training and work- “Inner Dialogue,” released March 24, shops with the aim of advocating for 2015, features her band along with the rights of women and, in essence, co-producer/special guest Chris- ending violence committed against tian Scott. Her third album will be women. She has received many nom- released this year. inations, such as one of “150 Women Who Shake the World,” (Newsweek, 2015).
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CS2017_ProgramBooklet_A5.indd 44 4/4/17 1:34 AM Sabine Choucair Julian Crouch Artistic Director, Clown Me In Artist Sabine Choucair (Lebanon) has a BA Julian Crouch is a Brooklyn-based in theater from Lebanese Univer- independent director, designer, sity. She studied at the International writer, maker, teacher, illustrator, and School of Performing Arts and the musician whose career has spanned Desmond Jones School of Mime in theater, opera, ballet, film, and London. She is certified in social television. Initially a mask and puppet therapy from the East Side Institute in maker, with much of his life based New York. She’s an active member in London, Crouch co-founded Lon- of Clowns Without Borders USA and don’s Improbable Theatre Company co-founder of Clown Me In. Choucair in the mid-1990s. Crouch co-cre- is managing director of the Beirut ated, co-directed, and designed the Cinema Days Arab film festival and multi-award winning Shockheaded artistic director of Caravan, a street Peter. His opera work has included theater project based on true stories set design and associate direction for from Syrian refugees, which has Satyagraha for the ENO and The Met toured in Lebanon and Tunisia and Opera, and creating The Enchanted is planning to go to Europe this year. Island, Doctor Atomic and staging the She has done theater, storytelling, 125th Gala for the Met. Most recently and group therapy projects around Julian co-directed and designed the world with drug addicts, margin- Jedermann for the Salzburg Festival. alized communities, refugees, and His recent set design for Hedwig And youths living in difficult situations. She The Angry Inch on Broadway earned has worked in Lebanon, Morocco, him a Tony Nomination. Currently Jordan, Dubai, the United Kingdom, he is designing The Nutcracker for Mexico, the United States, Brazil, Christopher Wheeldon and The Jof- India, Cyprus, and Cameroon. frey Ballet, King Arthur for the Berlin Staatsoper, Hansel and Gretel for the Scala Opera, Milan.
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CS2017_ProgramBooklet_A5.indd 45 4/4/17 1:34 AM Samantha Diamond Roberto Dranoff CEO, CultureConnect DJ Béco Dranoff Samantha Diamond is CEO of Active in music production and the CultureConnect (www.culturecon- international creation and devel- nectme.com), an award-winning opment of cultural and charitable technology company delivering projects, São Paulo-born Béco beautiful and meaningful digital Dranoff is a creative connector with experiences to museums and cultural over 25 years of experience in the heritage organizations. CultureCon- entertainment industry. Based in New nect innovates the visitor experience York since 1988, Dranoff’s Brazilian, through audience research, digital European, and American back- experience design, and software grounds and expertise positions him development. Previously, Diamond as a global bridge for entertainment was on the executive team of 20x200, and music projects in and out of Bra- a VC-backed art e- commerce com- zil. His multifaceted career includes pany that pioneered the sale of con- credits in Grammy- and Academy temporary art online. She has been Award-nominated projects, as well featured in national press (NPR, as label founder and artistic director, CNBC), international conferences record producer, festival curator, (MuseumNext, American Alliance documentarian, film/TV music for Museums, among others), and supervision, and online radio host. speaks frequently as an expert on Notable projects include co-founding the intersection of digital transfor- Ziriguiboom music label, production mation, learning, and engagement. of artists Bebel Gilberto, Bossacu- Diamond’s expertise includes strategy canova, Zuco 103 and more, Red Hot and operations, which she honed + Rio HIV/AIDS charitable compila- while working at the multibillion-dol- tions, documentary Beyond Ipanema: lar McMaster-Carr Supply Co. and Brazilian Waves in Global Music in Africa and the Middle East for the and New York’s Brasil Summerfest. In U.S. government and NGOs. She 2010, Béco was recognized in Vogue received an MBA from Columbia Brazil’s list of Top 100 Brazilians in the Business School and a BA in interna- USA. tional relations from Tufts University.
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CS2017_ProgramBooklet_A5.indd 46 4/4/17 1:34 AM Ramiro Durán Adrian Ellis Producer and Musician Director, AEA Consulting; Director Ramiro Durán Bunster is a Chilean and Co-Founder, Global Cultural producer and musician with a long Districts Network (GCDN) history in jazz and folkloric music. Adrian Ellis is the founder of AEA With an arsenal that includes Consulting (1990) and the Global acoustic and electric guitar and the Cultural Districts Network (2013). In Venezuelan and Puerto Rican cuatro, addition to consulting globally with he has been an integral member of clients across the cultural, public, the instrumental ensemble Aguaferte and business sectors, Ellis lectures Acústico, La Chilombiana, and and writes widely and has been recently, Ana Tijoux. He has traveled featured in numerous distinguished through most of Europe as well as forums. He serves on the Interna- Latin America, and appears on the tional Advisory Committee of the Grammy-nominated album “Vengo” master’s program in international arts by Ana Tijoux, as well as the forth- management. A lifelong jazz fanatic, coming record by the Mexican singer Ellis was executive director of jazz at Mon Laferte. Lincoln Center from 2007-2011. Before founding AEA, he was executive director of the Conran Foundation in London, where he planned and managed the creation of the Design Museum. He began his career as a civil servant in the U.K. Treasury and the Cabinet Office. Ellis received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from Univer- sity College, Oxford, where he served as a college lecturer in politics. He completed additional graduate work at the London School of Economics.
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CS2017_ProgramBooklet_A5.indd 47 4/4/17 1:34 AM Falu HRH Princess Dana Firas Singer/Songwriter President, Petra National Trust Falu is internationally recognized for HRH Princess Dana Firas is a global her rare ability to seamlessly blend advocate for heritage protection a signature modern inventive style and preservation as a foundation for with a formidable Indian classically development, responsible tourism, shaped vocal talent. Falu moved to political identity, and participation. the United States in 2000 and was Princess Dana is president of the appointed as a visiting lecturer at Petra National Trust, Jordan’s oldest Tufts University, where she taught national nongovernmental organiza- Indian classical music for two years. tion in the field of heritage protection Her subsequent career in the United and preservation. Established in 1989, States had led to a series of collabo- PNT seeks to preserve and protect rations with Yo-Yo Ma, Wyclef Jean, the natural, cultural, and socioeco- Philip Glass, Ricky Martin, Blues nomic heritage of the ancient Naba- Traveler, and A.R. Rahman, among taean city in southern Jordan and its others. She was appointed Carnegie surrounding region. Since the early Hall’s ambassador of Indian music 1990s, Princess Dana has worked to in 2006, where her shows at Zankel promote cultural heritage preser- Hall have consistently sold out. One vation, education, and sustainable of Falu’s most astonishing recent per- development in various capacities. formances occurred alongside A.R. Princess Dana holds a B.A. degree Rahman for President Barack Obama from Boston University. She also holds and first lady Michelle Obama at an MSc in development studies from the White House for their first state the London School of Economics and dinner in November 2009. She was Political Science and an MPA from the featured performer at the Time- Harvard University’s Kennedy School 100 gala in 2009. In early 2015, Falu of Government, where she was a was named one of the top 20 most Fulbright scholar. She is married to influential global Indian women in Prince Firas bin Raad and has two India’s Economic Times. Falu is tour- daughters, Safa and Haya, and a ing her new project, Falu’s Bollywood son, Hashem. Orchestra.
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CS2017_ProgramBooklet_A5.indd 48 4/4/17 1:34 AM Tracy Fullerton Rula Jebreal Chair of USC Interactive Media Visiting Professor, American & Games Department University of Rome Tracy Fullerton is a game designer, Rula Jebreal is a professor of inter- professor, and director of the USC national relations at the Ameri- Games program. Her research can University of Rome. From 2011 center, the Game Innovation Lab, through 2014, Jebreal was an on-air has produced several influential foreign policy analyst for MSNBC. independent games, including She frequently appears on CNN, “Cloud,” “flOw,” “Darfur is Dying,” Bloomberg, HBO, and other major “The Misadventures of P.B. Winter- U.S. and Italian networks. Jebre- bottom,” and “The Night Journey,” al’s articles have appeared in the with artist Bill Viola, and “Walden, New York Times, the Washington a game.” Fullerton is the author of Post, Newsweek, Foreign Policy, Game Design Workshop: A Playcen- The Nation, the San Jose Mercury tric Approach to Creating Innovative News, Salon.com, and others. Her Games, a design textbook used at work reflects a deep knowledge of game programs worldwide, and religious fundamentalism, ultra-na- holder of the Electronic Arts Endowed tionalist and populist movements in Chair in Interactive Entertainment. the West, and the emerging political Before USC, she designed games for order in the Arab-Muslim world. She Microsoft, Sony, MTV, among others. has written three books. Her first Tracy’s work has received honors book, Miral, was made into a major including an Emmy nomination, motion picture by The Weinstein Cos. Indiecade’s Sublime Experience, Impact, and Trailblazer awards, the Games for Change Game Changer Award, and the Game Developers Choice Ambassador Award.
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CS2017_ProgramBooklet_A5.indd 49 4/4/17 1:34 AM Aaron Koblin Saskia Lane Co-founder & CTO, Within Musician Aaron Koblin is the co-founder Saskia Lane is a Juilliard-trained and CTO of Within, a virtual reality bassist, composer, performer, and company. Previously, he created and educator whose work spans many led the Data Arts Team at Google genres. Most recently, she co-cre- from 2008-2015. Koblin has received ated with fellow composer Tom numerous awards, including the Cabaniss and librettist Zoe Palmer a Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National new opera for young people, Otoy- Design Award for Interaction Design otoy, which premiered at Carnegie and the National Science Founda- Hall in January. The Brooklyn-based tion’s award for science visualization. artist has been touring her new show, He received an Emmy in 2014, and Birdheart, co-created with director/ two of his music video collaborations designer Julian Crouch, and had have been Grammy-nominated. In the honor of performing the piece 2010, Koblin was the Abramowitz art- for the Dalai Lama in September ist-in-residence at MIT. He received 2016. This summer she will perform his M.F.A. in design/media arts in the Salzburg Festival’s annual from UCLA. His work is part of the production of Jedermann, her fifth permanent collection of the Museum appearance there. Since 2010, Lane of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, has been a member of the theater the Victoria & Albert Museum in company Checkov at Lake Lucille as London, and the Centre Pompidou in performer and composer, and is set Paris. His projects have been shown to appear in the group’s soon-to-be- at international festivals, including released feature film of The Seagull. TED, Sundance, Tribeca Film Festival, A classically trained musician with a Ars Electronica, SIGGRAPH, and the strong grounding in jazz, Lane has Japan Media Arts Festival. appeared with artists as diverse as Jay-Z and Beyoncé, Marc Ribot, and the Kronos Quartet.
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CS2017_ProgramBooklet_A5.indd 50 4/4/17 1:34 AM Jo Lawry Horacio Lecona Singer, Songwriter Creative Director, UNAM Australian-born, Brooklyn-based Jo Horacio Lecona is president and Lawry’s debut album, I Want to Be CEO of Creativa Inc. He has been Happy, was named one of the Best instrumental in positioning Creativa CDs of the Decade by Downbeat to take on a leadership role in the Magazine. She is the vocalist for the performing arts and creative devel- Fred Hersch Pocket Orchestra and opment, promoting the company has worked with Carnegie Hall as a through the fields of arts, creative featured artist in their Musical Con- thinking, technology, and business in nections program. Lawry has become the international arena. He was artis- well-known beyond jazz circles for tic director of the Compañía Nacio- her work with Sting, with whom she nal de Danza and later coordinator has been touring and recording since of Nacional de Danza at the Instituto 2009, and more recently with Paul Nacional de Bellas Artes in Mexico. Simon and Peter Gabriel. In 2013, While working in Mexico, Lecona Lawry was featured in the film 20 took an interest in international arts Feet From Stardom, which chronicled advocacy. He has designed and run the lives and careers of “the backup a diverse range of projects for the singers behind some of the greatest Creativity Development and Artistic musical legends of the 21st century” International Exchange. He is secre- and went on to win the Academy tary of planning and programming Award for Best Documentary Feature. of the Coordinación de Difusión Lawry leads her own band and Cultural at the Universidad Nacional released her latest album of origi- Autónoma de Mexico. nals, Taking Pictures, in March 2015. The follow-up, The Bathtub and The Sea, is due for release in May.
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CS2017_ProgramBooklet_A5.indd 51 4/4/17 1:34 AM Christopher Marianetti Emeline Michel Artistic Director and Co-Founder, Singer Found Sound Nation Haitian songstress and Red Cross Christopher Marianetti is a com- Ambassador Emeline Michel is inter- poser, producer, and educator from nationally acclaimed for fusing pop, Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is the jazz, blues, and traditional Haitian artistic director and co-founder of rhythms into deeply moving, joyful Found Sound Nation, a collective of music delivered with a charismatic musicians and artists who design and live show. A master entertainer, lead socially engaged music projects. Michel has shared her message He is a co-director of OneBeat, with audiences for more than 20 a music diplomacy initiative now years, including appearances at entering its fourth year in partner- Carnegie Hall, the United Nations, ship with the U.S. State Department, Milan’s Teatro Manzoni, Florida’s bringing together musicians, social Kravis Center, Festival International entrepreneurs, and artistic innovators de Jazz (Haiti), Ontario’s Luminato from around the world to launch Festival, the Montreal International collaborative projects designed to Jazz Festival, the New Orleans Jazz make a positive impact on local and Fest, Tasmania’s Ten Days on the global communities. His works have Island, Zimbabwe’s Harare Interna- been presented at the MATA Festival, tional Arts Festival, and MTV’s Hope Gaudeamus Interpreters Compe- for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for tition, International Symposium on Earthquake Relief. Hailed by the New Electronic Art, Merkin Concert Hall, York Times as a “diplomat of music” Massachusetts Museum of Modern and “the dancing ambassador with Art, The Stone, and the Tenri Cultural a voice serene and warm like the Institute, among others. With Found breeze,” Michel began singing with Sound Nation, Marianetti has led the gospel choir in the church of music projects in New York, South Gonaïves, Haiti. After studying at the Africa, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Detroit Jazz Center, she returned to Zimbabwe, Italy, and Switzerland, Haiti, where her career blossomed. as well as serving as a teaching artist with the Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall.
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CS2017_ProgramBooklet_A5.indd 52 4/4/17 1:34 AM Angela Migally Fabrice Monteiro Executive director, Salama bint Visual Artist Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation Belgian-Beninese visual artist Fabrice Angela Migally joined the Salama Monteiro electrically draws on the bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation techniques of photojournalism and as general counsel in 2013 and was fashion photography while refer- appointed to the role of executive encing tradition-based West African director in June 2015. The private cosmologies and the modern history not-for-profit foundation is com- of African and African American pho- mitted to the cultivation of a more tography. Monteiro studied industrial creative, connected, and thriving engineering in Europe and worked as UAE community. SHF oversees a a model. Under a New York-based diverse portfolio of not-for-profit photographer, he immersed himself programs and initiatives spanning in photography, gradually turning to the arts, culture, heritage, human African and Afro-Atlantic themes as development, and early childhood in he contemplates his complex “trans- the UAE and internationally. Migally cultural” ancestry. “The Prophecy” also served as deputy director of the contemplates global crisis in an era Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Scholars of climate change and environmen- Program at New York University Abu tal degradation through a vision Dhabi, a leadership program for that is both terrifying and beautiful. top Emirati university students from Composite figures inspired by West the three federal universities. She African masqueraders emerge out also served as an instructor on NYU of oil slicks, garbage dumps, and President John Sexton’s teaching desiccated landscapes in startling, team, teaching a course on U.S. exquisite dances of our new millen- constitutional law to NYUAD students nium. In such images we behold the and Sheikha Moahmed bin Zayed incomparable beauty of the human Scholars from 2010 to 2013. Before figure in ways that celebrate and coming to Abu Dhabi, Migally was a undercut the aesthetics of the fashion practicing lawyer. world—forcing us to contemplate our shared histories and potential futures on this beautiful, fragile planet.
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CS2017_ProgramBooklet_A5.indd 53 4/4/17 1:34 AM Nástio Mosquito Mutabaruka Multimedia and Poet Performance Artist Mutabaruka (formerly Allan Hope) At the core of Nástio Mosquito’s was born in Rae Town, Kingston, on work is an intense commitment to the Dec. 26, 1952. After primary educa- open-ended potential of language, tion he attended Kingston Technical arrived at through deliberate strate- High School. Trained in electronics, gies of reinvention. Mosquito makes he left his first job after about six music, performances, objects, and months and took employment at the videos under a range of monikers, Jamaica Telephone Co. Ltd. During such as Nastiá, Saco, Cucumber his time at the telephone company Slice, and Zura Zuara. Nástio also he began to examine Rastafarianism develops works under the collectives and found it more meaningful than Nastivicious and Bofa da Cara. In either the Roman Catholicism of his 2010, Bofa da Cara produced My upbringing or the political radicalism African Mind, a stunning video about into which he had drifted. To Muta- Western constructions of Africa, with baruka now, Rastafarianism is part a voiceover that floats along with of a universal quest that may also be a dramatic, 1940s-Hollywood-style pursued by other routes, such as Hin- soundtrack. Mosquito is a founding duism, Buddhism, or Christianity. He member of DZZZZ Consulting Ser- was the first well-publicized voice in vices and ZZZZZ Creative Projects the new wave of poets growing since and was recently nominated for the the early 1970s. They have developed Future Generation Art Prize 2014, a a living relationship between a poet major international competition that and a fairly wide audience such as, provides long-term support to emerg- in Jamaica, only Louise Bennett has ing artists. achieved before them.
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CS2017_ProgramBooklet_A5.indd 54 4/4/17 1:34 AM Alyse Nelson Octopizzo CEO, Vital Voices Musical Artist and UNHCR Alyse Nelson is president and CEO Ambassador of Vital Voices Global Partnership. A Octopizzo is a Kenyan hip hop artist co-founder, Nelson has worked for who has won several national and the organization for 20 years, serving international awards. He has served as vice president and senior director as a Youth Ambassador for Film Aid of programs before, assuming her International, the British Council current role in 2009. Under her lead- and is currently supporting UNHCR ership, Vital Voices has expanded Kenya with a dynamic youth project its reach to serve over 15,000 female dubbed “Artistes for Refugees”. He leaders in 144 countries. Previously, has been involved in a variety of Nelson was deputy director of the philanthropic and community based State Department’s Vital Voices projects with children, women and Global Democracy Initiative and youth since 2010. Although his first worked with the President’s Inter- love is music, he is equally passionate agency Council on Women at the about projects that focus on capacity White House. She is a member of the building and community participa- Council on Foreign Relations, the tion. His music centers on success, Expert Group for the B Team, and the believing in oneself and resonates advisory board of Chime for Change. with people from diverse cultures and Fortune named Nelson one of the 55 backgrounds. Octopizzo believes that Most Influential Women on Twitter. everything is possible. He is a living She is the author of the best-selling testament of that fact as he was born book Vital Voices: The Power of in a mud house in arguably the larg- Women Leading Change Around the est slum in the world. He can attest to World and has been featured in vari- the countless challenges that life in ous international and national media. such informal settlements face.
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CS2017_ProgramBooklet_A5.indd 55 4/4/17 1:34 AM Hayat Shamsuddin Tarek Oliveira Shayya Director of Culture, Expo 2020 Board Director, Expo 2020 Hayat Shamsuddin has been working Under the management of HE with Expo 2020 since September 2014. Minister Reem Ibrahim Al Hashimy, She is responsible for embedding minister of state for international Emirati and Arab culture throughout cooperation, Oliveira Shayya has the planning and delivery of the Expo been the director of the Interna- 2020 event, to maximize the opportu- tional Affairs Department at the nity of reaching out to cultural entities Minister of State office since 2010. He and participating nations, offering supervises a team of strategists and a platform for unity, collaboration, specialists in political risk analyses, and cultural expression, as well as political trend assessments, scenario providing all visitors with culturally planning, and the development of transforming experiences. Shamsud- strategies with key stakeholders for din has more than 20 years of expe- the UAE’s policies/engagement with rience in travel and tourism, events, various parts of the world. In January culture, and education, and has 2016, he was appointed as a board worked on a number of high-profile director for Expo 2020 with respon- national events across the UAE advis- sibility for international participants. ing both government and private In this capacity, Shayya supervises sector organizations. Throughout her the team responsible for managing career, Shamsuddin has increased Expo’s relationship with all potential awareness, knowledge, and participant countries. Shayya has 22 appreciation of Emirati culture and years of experience in various inter- heritage among multicultural and national affairs fields at the United national segments in the UAE. She Nations and the government of the has developed marketing segmenta- UAE. He holds a Ph.D. in interna- tion specific to the UAE multicultural tional relations/foreign policy from society, which has proved effective Northwestern University. for strategic planning across diverse economic sectors, including art fairs, film festivals, television productions, book fairs, and tourism develop- ments. Shamsuddin has a master’s in tourism marketing and a Ph.D. in con- sumer behavior from the University of Surrey in the U.K.
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CS2017_ProgramBooklet_A5.indd 56 4/4/17 1:34 AM Young Paris Matthew Putnam Artistic Director, Music Producer, CEO, Nanotranics and Songwriter Matthew Putman is the CEO of Young Paris totes an origin story that Nanotronics, a company that is blends cultures from three corners of revolutionizing industry by combining the world. Born to Congolese par- Super-resolution, AI, and robotics ents, he is an artistic director, music to make the worlds most advanced producer, and songwriter who has microscope. Matthew holds a Ph.D. worked with Grammy Award-win- in Applied Physics from Columbia ning producers. Young Paris has University. He has published over 30 recently been featured in Billboard, papers and holds 8 patents for his The Fader, REVOLT, BET, Vice, XXL work on devices, instrumentation, Mag, Pigeons & Planes, in addition and software processes. Matthew is to his impact on fashion in Vogue, Chairman of the Board for Pioneer WWD, Harper’s Bazaar, Coveteur, Works in Brooklyn, where he helps Essence, and VMAN. His full-length bring creative visionaries from many album, “African Vogue,” recently disciplines together to ignite novel released official remix of “Best of new creations. Matthew is a jazz Me,” featuring Nigerian star Tiwa pianist, published poet, as well as an Savage, and “One Time,” featuring Executive Producer on several films Reekado Banks, have won acclaim. and plays. Young Paris’s latest accomplishment finds him as a signee to the Jay-Z’s entertainment brand, Roc Nation. He is ready to introduce his wave of Afrobeats and unique style in pop culture. He is the founder MELANIN, a company designed to encour- age people of color to share and embrace their excellence and high- light the beauty of their skin.
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CS2017_ProgramBooklet_A5.indd 57 4/4/17 1:34 AM H.E. Saif Saeed Ghobash Fryad Rwandzi Director General, Abu Dhabi Minister of Culture, Iraq Tourism & Culture Authority. Born in 1957 in Erbil, Iraq, Rwandzi HE Saif Saeed Ghobash was went on to receive a bachelor of appointed as the director general of chemistry from the University of Mosul Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Author- and a diploma in translation and the ity in March 2016. Ghobash brings a competence of the press from the world of knowledge and experi- Cross Ankooij Institute in Canada. He ence from the spheres of strategic has worked in the field of teaching development, investment, and media for four years and then worked in affairs. He has held numerous senior journalism for more than 35 years. executive positions and was a mem- He was one of the founders of the ber of several key government entities. newspaper Kordstani nuclei in 1992, Ghobash was a director in the Office and presided over the liberation from of Strategic Affairs at the Crown 1996 to 2000. He was also one of the Prince Court and was acting CEO founders of the daily Al Ittihad news- and COO at Abu Dhabi Media. The paper in 1993.Rwandzi is a member director general is a member of the of the Global Association of Journal- Economic Development Committee ists and the Syndicate of Journalists of of the Abu Dhabi Executive Council. Kurdistan. He is also a member of the In addition, Ghobash is deputy chair- Iraqi Transitional National Assembly man of the board of directors of the 2004-2005 Erbil Department, the Zoo and Aquarium Public Institution Iraqi Council of Representatives for in Al Ain (Al Ain Zoo), Emirates Palace the first session 2005-2010 Erbil circle, Co., Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions the Committee on Constitutional Co. (ADNEC), Abu Dhabi Motorsports amendments in the first parliamen- Management, and Agthia. Ghobash tary session and of the Supreme also is a member of the Higher Com- National Commission for national mittee of the 2019 Special Olympics reconciliation, which was formed in and the EMEA Executive Advisory the national unity government (2005- Board at the Wharton School. The 2010).He is fluent in Kurdish, Arabic, director general earned a B.S. in English, and Farsi. economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and an executive M.B.A. from the IMD Business School.
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CS2017_ProgramBooklet_A5.indd 58 4/4/17 1:34 AM Flavio Renegado Aurora Robson Artist Artist Flávio Renegado is a Brazilian artist Aurora Robson is a multimedia artist who from the beginning of his career known predominantly for intercepting seemed to predict that his songs waste streams. Her practice centers would impact the world. Born and on subjugating negativity and raised in the favela of Alto Vera shifting trajectories while formally Cruz, in the city of Belo Horizonte in referencing recurring nightmares southeastern Brazil, he named “Do she had as a child. Born in Toronto, Oiapoque a Nova Iorque – From Robson grew up in Hawaii then Oiapoque to New York“ his first spent 20 years in New York City until album. His music is a mix of hip-hop recently relocating to the Hudson with Brazilian, Latin, and Jamaican Valley. Robson completed a double rhythms. His music traveled through- major (B.A.) in visual arts and art out Brazil, Europe, Oceania and the history at Columbia University. She Americas. His latest release, from is a recipient of The Pollock Krasner 2016, is a contemporary urban album Grant, a New York Foundation for called “Outono Selvagem - Wild the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture, a Autumn,” which reflects the conflicts TED/Lincoln Re-Imagine Prize, and related to the seven sins and virtues. a National Endowment for the Arts Renegado is also the leader and “Art Work Grant.” She is the founding founder of the NGO Arebeldia, which artist of Project Vortex, an interna- aims to empower young people from tional collective of artists, designers, the suburban area of his city. and architects utilizing plastic debris. She designed a curriculum called “Sculpture + Intercepting the Waste Stream” fostering creative steward- ship through academia. It was . the focus of her recent TEDx talk, “Trash + Love.”
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CS2017_ProgramBooklet_A5.indd 59 4/4/17 1:34 AM Deborah Rutter Cynthia Schneider President, The John F. Kennedy Distinguished Professor, Center for the Performing Arts Georgetown University Deborah F. Rutter began her tenure Cynthia P. Schneider, distinguished as president of the John F. Kennedy professor in the practice of diplomacy Center for the Performing Arts on at Georgetown University, teaches, Sept. 1, 2014. Known for emphasiz- publishes, and organizes initiatives in ing collaboration, innovation, and cultural diplomacy. She co-directs the community engagement, she is Laboratory for Global Performance considered one of the most influential and Politics at Georgetown, as well arts administrators in the nation. As as the Los Angeles-based MOST president of the Kennedy Center, Resource (Muslims on Screen and Rutter is the artistic and administra- Television). Additionally, she co-di- tive director of the world’s busiest rects the Timbuktu Renaissance, an performing arts center. The center innovative strategy and platform for encompasses one of the nation’s countering extremism and promoting largest arts education programs, peace and development, which grew reaching millions of people of all out of her work leading the Arts and ages each year, and includes VSA, Culture Dialogue Initiative within the international organization on arts Brookings’ Center for Middle East and disability. She was president of Policy. Schneider teaches courses in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra diplomacy and culture in the School Association, employing her dynamic of Foreign Service at Georgetown, influence to enhance the Chicago where, from 1984-2005, she was Symphony Orchestra’s reputation a member of the art history faculty as one of the world’s most highly and published on Rembrandt and acclaimed orchestras. As CSOA pres- 17th-century Dutch art. From 1998- ident, Rutter oversaw the operations 2001, she was U.S. ambassador to the of the Chicago Symphony Orches- Netherlands, during which time she tra, Symphony Center Presents, the led initiatives in cultural diplomacy, Institute for Learning, Access, and biotechnology, cybersecurity, and Training (including the Civic Orches- education. tra of Chicago), and the Chicago Symphony Chorus.
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CS2017_ProgramBooklet_A5.indd 60 4/4/17 1:34 AM Kyla-Rose Smith Sibylle Szaggars Redford Performer Founder, President, and Artistic Kyla-Rose Smith is an acclaimed Director, The Way of the Rain performer, violinist, and multimedia Sibylle Szaggars Redford is a Ger- artist. She is best known for her work man born Multimedia Environmental with Freshlyground, South Africa’s Artist. She has dedicated her life’s premier Afropop band. She has work to creating art informed by her toured extensively inside and beyond spiritual consciousness of our connec- South Africa with Freshlyground, tion to life, the land, and the world by which has garnered many awards, raising awareness of our environmen- including seven South African Music tal unsound practices for almost three Awards, an MTV Europe Award, and decades. Redford’s inspirations stem four METRO, and collaborated with from nature, ancient cultures, or as in Shakira on the FIFA 2010 World Cup her most recent work the unbalanced Song and subsequent global chart monsoons. Since 2012, Szaggars Red- topper, Waka Waka (This Time for ford had created site-specific staged Africa). Smith was also a recipient art performances titled, “The Way of of the Glamour Woman of the Year the Rain,” in which she explores cli- Award 2011. As a member of South mate change. This live performance Africa’s top touring band, Smith has art experience of multidisciplinary art developed a keen interest in the art forms is a homage to planet Earth. of performance and how musicians In 2015, she founded The Way of the interact with their audience through Rain Inc., a nonprofit organization. the medium of sound and music, while bridging cultural divides. She is the co-artistic director and artist facil- itator of Hear Be Dragons, a sound mapping project and communi- ty-based artistic exchange program.
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CS2017_ProgramBooklet_A5.indd 61 4/4/17 1:34 AM Jeremy Thal Ana Tijoux, MC Co-Director and Co-Founder, One of the most respected MCs in Found Sound Nation any language, Ana Tijoux has con- Found Sound Nation co-founder stantly set the standard for not only and co-director Jeremy Thal is a female rappers or Rap en Español, composer, multi-instrumentalist, and but for the hip-hop genre, breaking organizer. Found Sound Nation is all barriers and connecting with a New-York based music organi- audiences from different generations, zation that leverages the power of backgrounds, and voices. Born in collaborative sound-making to build France, Tijoux became a household community across cultural divides name in Chile with her first band, and amplify movements for social the critically acclaimed late 1990s justice. He has recorded and toured rap trio Makiza, as well as voicing with indie rock heavyweights Neutral the main character in the popular Milk Hotel and The National, and animated series Los Pulentos. Now leads his own band, Briars of North a Grammy-winning solo artist, her America. biting lyrics have resonated with fans across the globe as her activism has grown. She is now just as likely to be seen on Al-Jazeera or Democracy Now as she is at Lollapalooza or Roskilde. With the intention of re-con- necting with her roots and fighting for a continent, she somehow became a global spokesperson not only for the next generation of Latinos, but for for- gotten people all around the globe.
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CS2017_ProgramBooklet_A5.indd 62 4/4/17 1:34 AM Adejoke Tugbiyele Ana Cristina Vargas Artist Architect Adejoke Tugbiyele is an award- Vargas is an architect based in Cara- winning, LGBTQ, black artist and cas, Venezuela. Her work focuses advocate. She is a recipient of the on projects related to architecture, 2016 Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculp- urbanism, and participatory urban tors Grant. In 2015, Foreign Policy design, as well as research and described her as one of 100 Leading publications. In 2015, she estab- Global Thinkers for her sculptural lished an architecture practice. work addressing the criminalization Vargas founded Tracing Public of LGBTQ individuals in Nigeria. Space (Trazando Espacios), an NGO She is a 2014 U.S. Fulbright Student focused on teaching children urban Alumni and her artwork can be found design skills to transform public in significant public and private spaces within their communities. collections, including the Brooklyn Trazando Espacios has done projects Museum, Newark Museum, Smith- in India, Chile, the United States, sonian National Museum of African and Venezuela, where it is based. Art, and Credit Suisse Bank. While Professor and researcher, Urbanism a graduate student at Maryland Institute, Architecture Faculty, Univer- Institute College of Art, Tugbiyele sidad Central de Venezuela; created was awarded the Amalie Rothschild and teaches a course on participa- ’34 Rinehart Award in 2012 and the tory design for graduate students. William M. Phillips ’54 Scholarship Has presented work at events in for Best Figurative Sculpture in 2013. Caracas and internationally. Vargas She received a Bachelor of Science is a recipient of honors and awards, in Architecture from the New Jersey including: Dubai International Award Institute of Technology in 2002 and in for Best Practices U.N.-Habitat 2013 graduated with a Master of Fine for graduate thesis Tracing Public Arts in Sculpture from the Maryland Space; Impact Hub Caracas and IDB Institute College of Art. (InterAmerican Development Bank) Fellowship for social entrepreneur- ship and award from Metropolitan Municipality of Caracas for contrib- uting to a safer and more integrated city, for Trazando Espacios.
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CS2017_ProgramBooklet_A5.indd 63 4/4/17 7:42 AM Darren Walker Mariët Westermann President, Ford Foundation Executive Vice President, Darren Walker is president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Ford Foundation, the nation’s sec- As executive vice president of the ond-largest philanthropy, and for two foundation, Mariët Westermann decades has been a leader in the directs the grant-making programs nonprofit and philanthropic sectors. and works closely with the president He led the philanthropy committee and her fellow officers on strate- that helped bring a resolution to gic directions and initiatives. Prior Detroit’s historic bankruptcy and to taking up her position in 2010, chairs the U.S. Impact Investing Westermann was the first provost Alliance. Prior to joining Ford, he and chief academic officer of New was vice president at the Rockefeller York University Abu Dhabi, charged Foundation, where he managed the with directing the development of rebuild New Orleans initiative after the new campus and overseeing the Hurricane Katrina. In the 1990s, as design of the academic program and COO of Harlem’s largest commu- recruitment of the faculty. At NYU, nity development organization, the she had previously served as director Abyssinian Development Corp., and Paulette Goddard professor at Walker oversaw a comprehensive the Institute of Fine Arts. Earlier in her revitalization program of central career, Westermann held positions Harlem, including over 1,000 new as associate director of research at units of housing. He had a decade- the Clark Art Institute and as assistant long career in international law and and associate professor at Rutgers finance at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & University. Her collaborations with Hamilton and UBS. He is a member museums include her Rijksmuseum of the Commission on the Future Dossier: Johannes Vermeer (Waan- of Riker’s Island and serves on the ders, 2004) and curatorship of the boards of Carnegie Hall, New York exhibition Art and Home: Dutch Inte- City Ballet, the High Line, the Arcus riors in the Age of Rembrandt (Denver Foundation and PepsiCo. Art Museum and Newark Museum, 2001).
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CS2017_ProgramBooklet_A5.indd 64 4/4/17 1:34 AM Dustin Yellin Founder, Pioneer Works Born in California in 1975 and raised in Colorado, Dustin Yellin is a visual artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. In the past year, Yellin’s seminal Psychogeograp hies, have been commissioned for public exhibi- tion at Kennedy Center in Washing- ton, D.C., and Lincoln Center in New York City for the New York City Ballet Art Series. A series of these sculptures were also installed permanently in Los Angeles on Sunset Boulevard. In 2010, Yellin founded Pioneer Works, a social sculpture and nonprofit institute for art and innovation in Red Hook. Through a broad range of educational programs, exhibitions, performances, and arts and science residencies, Pioneer Works seeks to transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries, foster community, and provide a space where alternative modes of thought are supported and activated in tangible ways.
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