Community Conversation | Creative Resilience

In partnership with Emory Woodruff Health Sciences Center and Grady Health System, The Atlanta Opera presents a community conversation: “Creative Resilience: How Three Centuries of Pandemics Influenced the Arts,” a panel discussion exploring the impact on performing artists of three pandemics over three centuries. Panelists include Dr. Carlos del Rio, Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases at Emory University School of Medicine; Eric Paul Leue, Vice President of HIV Services at Ponce de Leon Center of Grady Hospital; Dr. Stefan Goldberg, Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University; Dr. Jodie Guest, Senior Vice Chair, Department of Epidemiology at Emory University; Tomer Zvulun, the Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. General & Artistic Director at The Atlanta Opera; and Lois Reitzes, Program Host at WABE-FM “city Lights.”
This community conversation supports performances by The Atlanta Opera of Jonathan Larson’s Broadway rock opera, Rent, and the beloved opera that inspired it, Giacomo Puccini’s La bohème. Performances Sep 18 – Oct 6 at Pullman Yards.