How Culture Makes the City (Brooklyn Rail) 

A conversation organized by Brooklyn Rail featuring special guests Juliette Donadieu, Cultural Attaché of the French Embassy in San Francisco and Director of Villa Albertine San Francisco, Simón Adinia Hanukai, Theatermaker and Co-Artistic Director of Kaimera Productions, Lori Fogarty, Director of the Oakland Museum of California, and Juliette Bompoint, Cultural Producer and Director of Mains d’Oeuvres, a nonprofit arts space in Saint-Ouen, a suburb of Paris.

They were joined by the Rail’s Malvika Jolly for a conversation on what our different cities can teach us, on reimagining the role of cultural actors in urban development, and why our cities must be built collectively. The conversation was concluded with a poetry reading by Farid Matuk. Watch it here!