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URL:https://alaskaworldaffairs.org/archived-events/music-art-justice/
SUMMARY:Music\, Art\, & Justice: Community Building and Political Expressio
 n Internationally and Locally
DESCRIPTION:Online registration for this event is now closed. To inquire ab
 out seat availability\, please call the AKWorld office at (907) 276-8038\,
  or email us at rsvp@alaskaworldaffairs.org\n\n\n\nSpeaker Bios:\n\nMurry 
 Sidlin\nMurry Sidlin is a conductor and the founder and president of the D
 efiant Requiem Foundation\, which sponsors live concert performances of De
 fiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín. The concert-drama\, tells the story of t
 he courageous Jewish prisoners in the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp du
 ring World War II who performed the famous Verdi Requiem Mass while experi
 encing the depths of human degradation. Sidlin conceived and created the 
 concert\, which combines the magnificent music of Verdi with testimony fro
 m survivors of the original chorus and footage from a Nazi propaganda film
  on Theresienstadt.  Sidlin lectures extensively on the arts and humaniti
 es as practiced by the prisoners of the Terezín Concentration Camp\, and 
 is a distinguished teacher of conducting and performs throughout the world
  in traditional concert halls.\n\nJulie Decker\nJulie Decker is the Direct
 or and CEO of the Anchorage Museum.  She has an extensive curatorial back
 ground combined with a long history initiating innovative Anchorage Museum
  programs and exhibitions. She is leading the museum beyond its recent exp
 ansion to position it as a key cultural institution in the international N
 orth.  She has authored and edited numerous exhibition catalogues and pu
 blications on the art and architecture of Alaska. She previously ran cont
 emporary art galleries\, was an instructor for the University of Alaska\, 
 and has served on the boards of several nonprofit organizations. She holds
  a Ph.D. in contemporary art history\, criticism and management from Union
  Institute and University\, a master's degree in arts administration from 
 Golden Gate University\, and bachelor degrees in fine art and journalism f
 rom the University of Oregon.\n\n&nbsp\;\n\nGeorge Martinez\nGeorge Martin
 ez is an award winning artist\, social entrepreneur\, and cultural ambassa
 dor for the US Department of State. He is the founder of the Global Block 
 Foundation\, the co-author/ editor of\, The Organic Globalizer: Hip Hop\, 
 Political Development and Movement Culture (Bloomsbury)\, and an adjunct p
 rofessor of political science. He is a civil society member of the United 
 Nations Alliance of Civilizations\, a member of the Multicultural Educatio
 n Concerns Advisory Committee of the Anchorage School District and serves 
 as the Special Assistant to Mayor Ethan Berkowitz for education\, youth de
 velopment\, diversity and economic development.\n\n&nbsp\;\n\nmoderated by
  Torrie Allen\nTorrie Allen is an Alaskan and national arts leader with mo
 re than 30 years of wide-ranging experience in the performing arts and bro
 adcast media. He recently served on the grants review panel for the Wallac
 e Foundation's $52 million Building Audiences for Sustainability initiativ
 e and the opera grants panel for the National Endowment for the Arts. Alle
 n is a Fellow of National Arts Strategies’ Chief Executive Program and h
 as participated in chief executive education programs at Harvard Business
  School\, Ross School of Business at University of Michigan and the RGK Ce
 nter for Philanthropy and Community Service at the University of Texas at
  Austin. He holds degrees from UCLA and the Boston Conservatory. Allen cur
 rently serves as the Chief Officer of Marketing and Development at Alaska 
 Public Media.\n\n&nbsp\;\n\nThis program is presented as part of Defy Fear
  Week in partnership with\n\n\n\n\n\nThis program's podcast is available t
 hrough Alaska Public Media's AWAC Presents\, click here to listen.\n\n&nbs
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LOCATION:Anchorage Hilton\, 500 W 3rd Ave\, Anchorage\, Alaska\, United Sta
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