Please join us for a conversation featuring special guests Juliette Donadieu, cultural attaché of the French Embassy in San Francisco & director of Villa San Francisco, Simón Adinia Hanukai, theatermaker & co-artistic director of Kaimera Productions, Lori Fogarty, director of the Oakland Museum of California, and Juliette Bompoint, cultural producer & director of Mains d'Oeuvres, a nonprofit arts space in Saint-Ouen, a suburb of Paris. They will be 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.

This dialogue builds on cross-cultural exchange between twenty artists, urban planners, entrepreneurs, cultural producers, and researchers from Oakland, CA and Saint-Denis, France to collaboratively address and reimagine the future of our cities. This conversation will also celebrate the recent publication of Oakland/Saint-Denis: Translating Cities and Cultures which details their findings, roadmaps, and best practices for reclaiming cultural spaces, resisting real estate pressures, and creating new models for tomorrow's cities.

We'll conclude with a poetry reading by Farid Matuk.