We’re pleased to announce the participants of a panel discussion immediately following the premiere of After the Factory at 7pm inside the Detroit Institute of Art on Thursday, February 2 (buy your tickets here!).
The discussion will be moderated by Mikel Ellcessor, the general manager of our NPR syndicate here in Detroit, WDET 101.9. Panelists include:
- Grace Lee Boggs, author of The Next Great American Revolution and lifelong social activist and community builder.
- Martina Guzman, reporter with 101.9 WDET who has spent the last year composing a body of work titled the “Detroit-Berlin Connection” looking at ways the two-post industrial cities have/will develop(ed).
- Haman Cross Jr, pastor at Rosedale Baptist church on the Northwest side of Detroit. Pastor Cross has a very innovative appraoch to the church’s role in his neighborhood. More info on him .
- Margaret Garry of the German Marshall Fund. She works with the GMF’s Transatlantic Cities Network and was instrumental in developing Detroit’s relationship with Turin, Italy (another post-industrial giant) in 2009.
- Philip Lauri, director of “After the Factory”
Good news is that there will be an afterglow inside the DIA cafe immediately following the panel discussion, and then the afterPARTY will take place at Woodbridge Pub.
Hope to see you there and don’t forget to order your tickets in advance here. See the Facebook invite here.