Events
9 May – 22 November 2026 - Venice - Italy Discover how the Pavilion of Finland at the 61st Venice Biennale is partnering with ARC – Artists at Risk Connection through "Aeolian Suite" by Jenna Sutela, highlighting artistic freedom, solidarity, and support for artists at risk worldwide. 2 June 2026 - Paris - France ARC – Artists at Risk Connection joins ICOM France for a public debate at the École du Louvre and online on the growing pressures facing artistic, curatorial, and academic freedom. Bringing together museum leaders, researchers, and cultural professionals, the discussion will examine censorship, self-censorship, and political pressures affecting cultural institutions. 15 May 2026 - Online Solidarity Loom is a six-month virtual series bringing together artists, cultural workers, scholars, activists, and organizers from across the world who are responding to rising authoritarianism through creative and cultural practice. 29 April 2026 - New York - USA In a conversation moderated by ARC Executive Director, Julie Trébault, writers Madeline Sayet and Gabriela Wiener, and museum professional, Meghan Bill, ask: what do the journeys of human remains, cultural artifacts, and iconic artworks reveal about our history? What makes the violence and asymmetries that have shaped their extraction, preservation, and return both collective and deeply personal experiences? 15-16 April 2026 - Online ARC and Res Artis are hosting an online workshop focussed on how to effectively host artists-at-risk. In this 90-minute session, we will examine the social and political contexts that place artists in this position – and how these differing situations require different responses. 21 April 2026 - Norfolk - USA Join us for a focused and timely conversation as part of the Southeastern Art Museum Director Conference 2026, hosted by the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia (April 19-21), on the evolving landscape of artistic freedom in the United States. 21 March 2026 - New York - USA Join Mai Khôi & The Dissidents:“Bad Activist” and “Five Years in Exile” Album Release - A powerful 2-in-1 concert experience at National Sawdust in Brooklyn. 19 March 2026 - Online Artists Untangling Censorship is an online public conversation featuring UNDOXX organizers zavé martohardjono and Maya Simone Z., alongside Patrick Bond (ARC), Adam Odsess-Rubin and Achiro P. Olwoch (National Queer Theater), and Minneapolis-based artist Leila Awadallah.
20 - 28 March 2026 - The Hague - The Netherlands At the internationally renowned Movies that Matter Festival in The Hague, filmmakers, human rights defenders, artists, and audiences from around the world come together to engage with powerful stories that confront injustice and inspire change.
From 20 - 28 March 2026, through films and dialogues, the Festival affirms a shared conviction: that storytelling is not only a reflection of global realities, but a force capable of shaping them. 6 - 8 February 2026 - Addis Ababa - Ethiopia At the PANAF Summit 2026, artists, activists, policymakers, funders, and cultural leaders from across the continent will come together in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to explore how creativity thrives—and transforms—within today’s shifting digital and economic realities.
From 6–8 February 2026, PANAF Summit will once again affirm one message: that to be free to create is to be free to define the future.
