December 17, 2020 — Asia Society Northern California, along with the Asia Society Global Cultural Diplomacy Initiatives, hosts a panel featuring filmmakers and musicians from the documentary film Beethoven in Beijing as part of the China Now Music Festival. The discussion centers around building new connections across cultures and between nations, work that exemplifies the idea of culture as diplomacy, a new initiative of the Asia Society.

Panelists include Asia Society President Emeritus Nicholas Platt, consulting producer of Beethoven in Beijing and U.S.-China Music Institute at Bard College Jindong Cai, classical composer and pianist Peng Peng Gong, co-director and co-producer of Beethoven in Beijing Jennifer Lin, Asia Society Northern California board member Sheila Melvin, executive director of the Philadelphia Orchestra Ryan Fleur, and director of global cultural diplomacy initiatives at Asia Society Rachel Cooper. (1 hr., 14 min.)