This Sunday, May 6, 2012, 1 pm:
“99% Art In the Public Realm: A Tool for Social Change Panel” sponsored by Metropolis magazine
From Susan B. Komen to Kony, public discourse is the art “Happening,” taking to the streets and Tweets to affect global change and re-invention. This panel will review art and current events globally, where public performance and street art is on the rise and how artists, museums, urban interventions, interactive events and media now meet marketing and non-profits to engage audience.
Curator, Jade Dressler, Creative Director and Metropolis journalist, with Lina Srivastava, Jonathan Porcelli, Serena Saitas, Nicholas Coblence, Renata Lopes-Merriam, Philippe Achard. Presented by Kiwi Arts Group at site/109, 109 Norfolk Street, NYC
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LINA SRIVASTAVA is the Principal of Lina Srivastava Consulting, a strategic consultancy working with companies and organizations to positively transform communities through art, culture and technology. An attorney by training, Lina is a first-mover in transmedia for social change, having been involved in successful cross-media campaigns for several documentaries, including Oscar-winning Born into Brothels and the Emmy-nominated The Devil Came on Horseback. The former Executive Director of Kids with Cameras, and the past Interim Executive Director of the Association of Video and Filmmakers, she is currently the organizational strategist for VODO and for 3Generations and Director, social change strategy team, for the Resist Network and its forthcoming film Who Is Dayani Cristal?. Lina has provided strategic consulting and projectdesign to a group of organizations dedicated to social impact, ranging from UNESCO to BYkids. Website: 
He has a bachelor’s degree in international relations from the University of Chicago, where he worked part time for the William Benton Fellowships in Broadcast Journalism. He later interned with Mail & Guardian TV in South Africa, working on shows about everyday life and township businesses. He helped coordinate the series “Africa Express” for the South African Broadcasting Company. He researched for the BBC before returning to Chicago and a job as a producer for Tower Productions. Since 2003, he has been a freelance producer, writer and director. He has worked on many projects for the History Channel, including the 2009 award-winning documentary “JFK: Three Shots that Changed America.” His other work — for PBS, A&E, and museum exhibits — includes “History Detectives”, as well as pieces on forensic anthropologists at the Smithsonian, and the history of Wall Street. Website: 
She has consulted, produced and done logistics for over ten years working on concerts, awards show, art exhibits, festivals and events such as the Popes visit to New York, Barcelona’s world yacht race and the massive art exhibits Waterfalls and The Gates in NY. She has worked extensively with Sierra Leone since 2002 and has been living in Sierra Leone for most of the last 3 years. Her entertaining documentary of the first Sierra Leone democratic Paramount Chief election, The Candidates, will release in early 2012. She also works with several NGOs within the country as a consultant, filmmaker and artist. Currently she is the Director of the inaugural Sierra Leone International Film Festival. Website: 
His 2007 documentary “This is Nollywood,” won the Audience Award at the Abuja International Film Festival (Nigeria) and was broadcast internationally. “American Eunuchs,” his first feature length documentary as director/producer/editor, aired on the Sundance Channel in the US and was an official selection in dozens of film festivals including the prestigious International Documentary Film festival in Amsterdam (IDFA). Between 2002 and 2005 Franco collaborated with numerous news magazines of RAI International (Italian Public Television) as a reporter/producer/editor. Franco also directs and produces films for NGOs and universities with a focus on economic development and Africa. He is committed to film education, and has developed curricula and served as an instructor in workshops all over the world. His films have been screened at the Lincoln Center, The Anthology Film Archive, in New York, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Franco graduated in political science at the University of Bologna. He received a Masters of Arts in Visual Arts at Emerson College in Boston, MA. Website: 
