Join us to explore how art and culture are central tools advancing civic health in local communities around the country. Leave inspired by how initiatives from Philadelphia to rural Kentucky to Arkansas can be models for cross-sector practice to create a healthy democracy in your community.

Featuring:

Lisa Hicks Gilbert, Mayor, historian, community builder, and founder and Managing Director of Descendants of the Elaine Massacre of 1919.
Phoebe Bachman, (she/they), South Philadelphia-based artist, facilitator, and curator
Savannah Barrett, Exchange Director for Art of the Rural, and Kentucky Rural-Urban Exchange co-founder
Moderated by Richard Young, FORWARD Issue 8 guest editor and founder and executive director at CivicLex, a nonprofit in Lexington, Kentucky dedicated to strengthening civic health at the local level

This is part of our conversation series for our new digital publication, FORWARD 8: Civic Health. Forecast Public Art offers this program free of cost, but donations are appreciated. Forecast Public Art is a nonprofit organization.

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