2016 Women's AM | Lindy Sisson from the ACT

ART CAN CHANGE

Lindy Sisson, Executive and Artistic Director of the ACT Arts Centre

Lindy's talk will include interesting information about the impact of the arts in our lives through the sharing of personal stories, industry studies and statistics, plus the showing of the short film "Art Can Change", commissioned as part of the 2015 CRE8 Youth Arts Day, which showcases Maple Ridge Artists in Residence Kat Wahamaa and Robi Smith, and Kwantlen artist Brandon Gabriel.  The film was produced by Marcus Kliewer under the mentorship of filmmaker Anne Watson. 

"The point is, art never stopped a war and never got anybody a job. That was never its function. Art cannot change events. But it can change people.  It can affect people so that they are changed... because people are changed by art - enriched, ennobled, encouraged - they then act in a way that may affect the course of events ... by the way they vote, they behave, the way they think." 

Leonard Bernstein (American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist)