"Pandemic as Portal":
A Call and Response with Frank Snowden and Marc Bamuthi Joseph
Nov. 23, 2020 4-6PM EST (NY)
Event Video:
SPEAKERS:
Frank M. Snowden, PhDProfessor Snowden talks about the idea of the Pandemic as Portal, identifying 3 ways humanity might remake the world for a better post-pandemic future.
About Frank Snowden:Frank Snowden is one of the leading historians of epidemics in the world and has spoken internationally since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic on the way epidemics shape human society:
"Epidemic diseases reach into the deepest levels of the human psyche. They pose the ultimate questions about death, about mortality: What is life for?"- Frank Snowden 
"May we be ‘forever changed’ by coronavirus"--Frank Snowden How will COVID-19 Change the World? An Interview with Frank Snowden:
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Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Writer, PerformerMarc Bamuthi Joseph responds to Professor Snowden and offers ideas on how his work as an artist and activist intersect with Dr. Snowden’s vision for a post-pandemic future.
About Marc Bamuthi Joseph:Marc Bamuthi Joseph is a world-renowned artist, activist, and author whose works feature the through-line of healing:
#HOW WE HEAL:
Bamuthi's 2017 Opera, "We Shall Not Be Moved," was hailed by the New York Times as one of the year's best classical music performances:
“It is an epic poem as much as it is a libretto."--Daniel Bernard Roumain, composer 
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Mr. Joseph will appear in HBO's special event Between The World And Me on Nov. 21, alongside Ta-Nehisi Coates, Mahershala Ali, Angela Bassett, Angela Davis, Alicia Garza, Tip “T.I.” Harris, Jharrel Jerome, Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter, Oprah Winfrey, and others:
Based on the 2018 adaptation and staging of the book at the Apollo Theater, the HBO Special will combine elements of the Apollo’s production, including powerful readings from Coates’ book, and incorporate documentary footage from the actors’ home life, archival footage, and animation.
