Kulturledere i Arendal arbeider for deltakelse i det internasjonale i Friby-nettverket

Kulturledere i Arendal arbeider for at byen skal etablere seg som del av det internasjonale Friby-nettverket. I Arendal har alle kulturlederne gått sammen i Art27Arendal for å diskutere internasjonalisering av programarbeid og utvikling av et bedre internasjonalt nettverk. Arendal skal fortsatt være et fellesskap som ivaretar kunstneriske rettigheter. Dette gjelder både folks deltakelse i kunstproduksjon og kunstnernes ytringsfrihet. Slik vil de sikre at kultursektoren forblir en god pådriver og arena for demokratisering i lokalsamfunnet.

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AuthorLitangen
CategoriesArtistic Rights, Artist at Risk
Tagsart27Arendal, Friby-nettverket, ICORN

Stand for Sudanese Artists

Culture Resource and Action for Hope are launching an emergency initiative to support Sudanese artists and protect cultural resources in Sudan. This initiative includes different components, such as providing support to artists and writers who have been directly affected by the war, identifying and documenting the cultural and artistic resources at risk in Sudan and exploring ways to protect them, providing workplaces and meeting spaces for Sudanese artists who had to leave Sudan recently, and training a group of cultural actors from Sudan and South Sudan on protecting cultural rights in times of war and crisis.

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AuthorLitangen
CategoriesArtist at Risk
TagsCulture Resource, Action for Hope, Sudan

Partnerne i sør må ha definisjonsmakten

Solveig Korum Korum har tatt doktorgrad i bruk av musikk som verktøy i norsk utenriks- og bistandspolitikk ved Universitetet i Agder. I fagbladet for norsk bistandssektor, Panorama Nyheter, viser Solveig Korum til Mimeta som eksempel på norske organisasjoner som arbeider sammen med lokale partnere for å få frem en fungerende kultursektor i land der myndigheten ikke tar dette ansvaret.

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AuthorLitangen
CategoriesCultural policy
TagsSolveig Korum, International development cooperation, Norad

Freedom of Expression and the protection of artistic rights: Are we doing enough?

Carving out a space for free expression has always been a high-cost fight for artists under autocratic rule. Today, that space is contested even in some established western democracies. This session will present you with real life models and experiences from Africa, the Middle East and Norway of those working effortlessly to salvage a space for free expression for artists.  How can we ensure more international engagement in protecting the rights of artists at risk?

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AuthorLitangen
CategoriesArtistic Rights, Artist at Risk, Human Rights, Freedom of Expression
TagsWEXFO

LISTEN!UP

Velkommen til frokostseminar om kraften i historiefortelling og hvordan den kan brukes til å påvirke både individuelle ferdigheter og endringer av sosiale situasjoner. Arendal Voksenopplæring og Media Service AS, i samarbeid med Oslo Met og NLA-Høgskolen, bruker film i språkopplæring for innvandrere i Arendal. Prosjektet er finansiert av Imdi. 

Basma El Husseiny er fra Egypt. Hun er en internasjonalt anerkjent kulturleder, og driver den arabiske organisasjonen Action for Hope som har filmskoler for unge syriske flyktninger i Libanon.

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AuthorLitangen
CategoriesNarrative change, Social Mobilization
TagsNarrative change

At World Summit: Unesco launches a US$ 1 million investment in artistic freedom

It is our pleasure to invite you to the roundtable “Artists at risk: Learning from the experience of journalists”, which will be hosted by UNESCO on Thursday 4 May 2023 from 13h00 to 13h30, in the framework of IFACCA’s 9th World Summit on Arts & Culture — Space A1 (Level 4), Waterfront Congress Centre, Stockholm, Sweden. The event will feature the launch of UNESCO’s new publication “Defending Creative Voices: Artists in emergencies – Learning from the safety of journalists” and the announcement of over US$ 1 million investment in artistic freedom through the UNESCO-Aschberg programme.

The roundtable, dedicated to the safety of artists, will be opened and moderated by Mr. Ernesto Ottone R., UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Culture. It will include the participation of the following panellists:

  • Mr Shahidul Alam, Artist, photojournalist, educator and social activist 

  • Ms Basma El Husseiny, Founder, Action for Hope

  • Ms Julie Trébault, Director, Artists at Risk Connection (ARC) - PEN America 

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AuthorLitangen
CategoriesArtistic Rights, Cultural policy, Artist at Risk
TagsUNESCO

Artist at Risk Funding Initiative

It is of urgency to invest in these structures as their foundations are crackling. The number of people that are involved concretely in the protective work globally is countable on few hands. The protective structures on ground are alarmingly scarce and not fully integrated in the international system of protection, according to head of Mimeta, Cato Litangen. 

Authorities, philanthropy, cultural institutes, and key organizations and artists from vulnerable regions, took part in the first meeting of the Artist at Risk Funding Initiative. The aim is to strengthen the protection of artists at risk. 

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AuthorLitangen
CategoriesArtistic Rights, Cultural policy, Funding
TagsARFI, The Artist at Risk Funding Initiative