COMMON GROUND: How to join forces to protect artistic freedom
Arts and Culture Norway is hosting a panel on artistic freedom as part of Bodø European Capital of Culture 2024 programme. The conference is a cooperation with ICORN and Bodø2024. More information, full program and registration will follow medio August.
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13. september 2024 kl. 13:00 - 15:00 |
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Wood Hotel Bodø |
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Kulturdirektoratet |
COMMON GROUND: How to join forces to protect artistic freedom
The session COMMON GROUND gives floor to speakers representing different stakeholders in the field of artistic freedom and will contain short key notes and a panel discussion. Together they will search the gaps, look for the blind spots, and discuss how better to join forces in order to enhance and support artistic freedom.
Speakers
- Matjaz Gruden, Director of democracy Council of Europe
- Anaïs Chagankerian, Associate Project Officer, Diversity of Cultural Expressions Entity, UNESCO
- Khalid Albaih, Romanian-born, Sudanese artist and political cartoonist. Currently based in Oslo.
- Marianne Borgen, Member of the ICORN Board. Mayor of Oslo from 2015 – 2023.
- Kristin Danielsen, Director of Arts and Culture Norway. She is currently holding the position as General Director of International Federation of arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA).
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BACKGROUND
The UNESCO 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Culture reaffirms that freedom of thought, expression and information, as well as diversity of the media, enable cultural expressions to flourish within societies. One of the main objectives of the convention is that international and national legislation related to human rights and fundamental freedoms promote both artistic freedom and the social and economic rights of artists.
Council of Europe's treaty - European Convention on Human Right states that everyone has the right to freedom of expression. In 2020 the Council of Europe Manifesto on the Freedom of Expression of Arts and Culture in the Digital aera was launched. The Manifesto sums up the importance of artistic creation and cultural industry for our democratic societies as well as the protection. It highlights the key role of arts and culture as powerful means for maintaining constructive dialogue in democratic and open societies.
Information about Arts of democracy
ICORN International Cities of Refuge Network and Bodø European Capital of Culture 2024 are cooperating on a festival week with democracy and artistic freedom as a headline.
The festival will take place 9th -14th September in Bodø. The programme will consist of panels and concerts in addition to workshops, social events, performances in public space, etc. Several European ICORN- cities will be present and will bring artists in residence; Amsterdam, Chemnitz, Trencin, Paris and Stockholm.