Events
Tijuana - Mexico
ARC @ Cine Sin Fronteras
18 - 22 November 2025
Cine Sin Fronteras is an international event that utilizes film, art, human rights, and cultural diplomacy to dignify the migrant experience.
New Orleans, LA
ARC @ National Performance Network 2025 Conference
As The Theater Offensive offered in its rules for fellowship in this era: “No blame. No hatred. Love. Unity. Liberation. Abundance.” With Giselle Byrd, The Theater Offensive; Anjee Helstrup-Alvarez, MACLA; and Julie Trébault, Artists at Risk Connection.
Barcelona - Spain
Cultural Rights Now | MONDIACULT 2025
1 October 2025
ARC will cohost the panel "Cultural Rights Now: Voices at Risk, Access in Action" as part of MONDIACULT 2025. The discussion is in collaboration with EBA — Europe Beyond Access, the Diputació de Barcelona, and the British Council.
Barcelona - Spain
Weaving Cultural Futures | MONDIACULT 2025
29 September 2025
ARC will cohost the side event "Weaving Cultural Futures: Artistic Freedom, Feminist Advocacy, and Local Governance in Action" as part of MONDIACULT 2025. The discussion is in collaboration with the Women X Culture Network, UCLG - United Cities and Local Governments, and the Institut de Cultura, Ajuntament de Barcelona.
Baltimore - USA
ARC @ 2025 National Museum Publishing Seminar
29 June - 1 July 2025
ARC will participate in the panel "Publishing Without Fear or Favor: Maintaining Trust with Authors, Artists, and Audiences" to reflect on how museums can remain spaces for healthy debate and learning.
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Osman Obaid
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Zhenya Berkovich
Nicaragua
Ludwing Gómez
China
Rahima Mahmut
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Shareef Sarhan
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🎥🇲🇽 ARC is heading to Tijuana!
From TODAY until Saturday 22 November, we’ll be joining the Meeting of the Abya Yala Human Rights Film Festival Network, held as part of the Cine Sin Fronteras Festival.
This five-day gathering brings together some of the most committed human rights film festivals across Latin America—directors, programmers, and producers imagining new collective strategies for a more ethical, sustainable, and politically engaged filmmaking ecosystem.
✨ On Friday, ARC will lead a Safety Workshop for artists and filmmakers, focusing on digital protection, secure communication, and safety strategies for working amid growing censorship and authoritarian pressure.
Participants include: @festivalentretodos @contraelsilencio @espacio_queer
@colmigrantefest @festradical_bolivia
Learn more: https://artistsatriskconnection.org/event/arc-cine-sin-fronteras/
🎥🇲🇽 ARC is heading to Tijuana!
From TODAY until Saturday 22 November, we’ll be joining the Meeting of the Abya Yala Human Rights Film Festival Network, held as part of the Cine Sin Fronteras Festival.
This five-day gathering brings together some of the most committed human rights film festivals across Latin America—directors, programmers, and producers imagining new collective strategies for a more ethical, sustainable, and politically engaged filmmaking ecosystem.
✨ On Friday, ARC will lead a Safety Workshop for artists and filmmakers, focusing on digital protection, secure communication, and safety strategies for working amid growing censorship and authoritarian pressure.
Participants include: @festivalentretodos @contraelsilencio @espacio_queer
@colmigrantefest @festradical_bolivia
Learn more: https://artistsatriskconnection.org/event/arc-cine-sin-fronteras/
On this Day of the Imprisoned Writer 2025, ARC joins PEN International in standing with writers around the world who are silenced for their words.
Today, we highlight Mohamed Tadjadit—an imprisoned Algerian writer known as the “the poet of the Hirak.” A powerful voice for justice, Mohamed has faced repeated arrests since 2019 for his poetry and peaceful activism. In January 2025, he was sentenced to five years in prison on politically motivated charges.
✊ ARC joins PEN International in calling on the Algerian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release Mohamed Tadjadit and drop all charges related to his peaceful expression.
Read our past statement on Mohamed`s arrest: https://artistsatriskconnection.org/statement/arc-and-pen-america-condemn-the-imprisonment-of-poet-mohamed-tadjadit/
@peninternational #DayOfTheImprisonedWriter #FreeMohamedTadjadit #Algeria #PoetryIsNotACrime
On this Day of the Imprisoned Writer 2025, ARC joins PEN International in standing with writers around the world who are silenced for their words.
Today, we highlight Mohamed Tadjadit—an imprisoned Algerian writer known as the “the poet of the Hirak.” A powerful voice for justice, Mohamed has faced repeated arrests since 2019 for his poetry and peaceful activism. In January 2025, he was sentenced to five years in prison on politically motivated charges.
✊ ARC joins PEN International in calling on the Algerian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release Mohamed Tadjadit and drop all charges related to his peaceful expression.
Read our past statement on Mohamed`s arrest: https://artistsatriskconnection.org/statement/arc-and-pen-america-condemn-the-imprisonment-of-poet-mohamed-tadjadit/
@peninternational #DayOfTheImprisonedWriter #FreeMohamedTadjadit #Algeria #PoetryIsNotACrime
⛓🇩🇿 Boualem Sansal is FREE!
“While we are enormously relieved that Sansal has regained his freedom and is now in Germany where he can access critical medical care, his case should serve as a stark reminder: across the world, artists and writers continue to be targeted, silenced, or criminalized for expressing ideas that challenge power.”
ARC welcomes the humanitarian pardon and release of Algerian-French writer Boualem Sansal, following international appeals and urgent concerns over his deteriorating health. His case highlights the shrinking space for artistic freedom in Algeria and the critical need to protect creative voices from repression.
Read our statement: https://artistsatriskconnection.org/statement/arc-welcomes-humanitarian-pardon-and-release-of-algerian-french-writer-boualem-sansal/
@peninternational @penamerica @indexcensorship #BoualemSansal #FreedomforBoualem #Algeria #ArtisticFreedom #ArtistsAtRisk
⛓🇩🇿 Boualem Sansal is FREE!
“While we are enormously relieved that Sansal has regained his freedom and is now in Germany where he can access critical medical care, his case should serve as a stark reminder: across the world, artists and writers continue to be targeted, silenced, or criminalized for expressing ideas that challenge power.”
ARC welcomes the humanitarian pardon and release of Algerian-French writer Boualem Sansal, following international appeals and urgent concerns over his deteriorating health. His case highlights the shrinking space for artistic freedom in Algeria and the critical need to protect creative voices from repression.
Read our statement: https://artistsatriskconnection.org/statement/arc-welcomes-humanitarian-pardon-and-release-of-algerian-french-writer-boualem-sansal/
@peninternational @penamerica @indexcensorship #BoualemSansal #FreedomforBoualem #Algeria #ArtisticFreedom #ArtistsAtRisk
How do we defend imagination when it’s under attack?
At the #CECArtsLink2025Assembly, ARC’s Julie Trebault joined Achiro P. Olwoch, playwright, novelist, and filmmaker to confront the defunding of imagination — and reimagine how we can stand together for artistic freedom.
Artistic expression is not expendable — it’s essential.
Together, we defend each other.
Learn more: https://artistsatriskconnection.org/event/arc-cec-artslink/
#ArtistsAtRisk #ArtisticFreedom #CreativeResistance #DefendingEachOther #ArtsAdvocacy @cec_artslink @achiro.p.olwoch
How do we defend imagination when it’s under attack?
At the #CECArtsLink2025Assembly, ARC’s Julie Trebault joined Achiro P. Olwoch, playwright, novelist, and filmmaker to confront the defunding of imagination — and reimagine how we can stand together for artistic freedom.
Artistic expression is not expendable — it’s essential.
Together, we defend each other.
Learn more: https://artistsatriskconnection.org/event/arc-cec-artslink/
#ArtistsAtRisk #ArtisticFreedom #CreativeResistance #DefendingEachOther #ArtsAdvocacy @cec_artslink @achiro.p.olwoch
“There are songs that I couldn`t sing at first because it hurt a lot to sing them. And after many years of singing them, I realized, this wound no longer hurts... I am no longer the same person who began to sing full of rage, full of hate. That possibility was given to me by the arts.” — Rebeca Lane (@rebecalane6)
Guatemalan musician and activist Rebeca Lane has spent the last decade using hip-hop to challenge patriarchy and empower women across Latin America. Drawing from her family’s experiences during Guatemala’s civil war, Lane transforms pain into healing through art — inspiring others to do the same.
🎥 Watch Lane’s powerful music video and feminist resistance song “Ni Una Menos,” an anthem against gender-based violence that has resonated across Latin America: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbQ_
🎶 Read her story: https://artistsatriskconnection.org/artist-voice/rebeca-lane/
#RebecaLane #Guatemala #NiUnaMenos #ArtistSpotlight
Lane performs onstage in Berlin in 2018. Photo credit: Nika Kramer.
“There are songs that I couldn`t sing at first because it hurt a lot to sing them. And after many years of singing them, I realized, this wound no longer hurts... I am no longer the same person who began to sing full of rage, full of hate. That possibility was given to me by the arts.” — Rebeca Lane (@rebecalane6)
Guatemalan musician and activist Rebeca Lane has spent the last decade using hip-hop to challenge patriarchy and empower women across Latin America. Drawing from her family’s experiences during Guatemala’s civil war, Lane transforms pain into healing through art — inspiring others to do the same.
🎥 Watch Lane’s powerful music video and feminist resistance song “Ni Una Menos,” an anthem against gender-based violence that has resonated across Latin America: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbQ_
🎶 Read her story: https://artistsatriskconnection.org/artist-voice/rebeca-lane/
#RebecaLane #Guatemala #NiUnaMenos #ArtistSpotlight
Lane performs onstage in Berlin in 2018. Photo credit: Nika Kramer.
“Our opposition thrives on chaos.” — Nikole Hannah-Jones
Across the U.S., artists, writers, and educators are confronting censorship and political pressure that`s reaching new heights.
At ARC’s “Dangerous Art / Endangered Artists” summit in May 2024, Nikole Hannah-Jones joined Aruna D’Souza to discuss how censorship operates across art, race, gender, and sexuality—and how each of us can resist this suppression with clarity and courage.
The insights shared during the summit are now more urgent than ever.
🎥 Watch their full conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkoMPOoKxCk
@nikolehannahjones @invisible.flaneuse
“Our opposition thrives on chaos.” — Nikole Hannah-Jones
Across the U.S., artists, writers, and educators are confronting censorship and political pressure that`s reaching new heights.
At ARC’s “Dangerous Art / Endangered Artists” summit in May 2024, Nikole Hannah-Jones joined Aruna D’Souza to discuss how censorship operates across art, race, gender, and sexuality—and how each of us can resist this suppression with clarity and courage.
The insights shared during the summit are now more urgent than ever.
🎥 Watch their full conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkoMPOoKxCk
@nikolehannahjones @invisible.flaneuse
🇰🇪 “Art is more than just a form of expression—it’s a tool to challenge societal norms, raise awareness, and inspire action.” - @javan_thepoet
From Kenya, to Madagascar, Nepal, and beyond, a new generation of young people is rising up—demanding justice, accountability, and change. Artists are at the heart of these movements, using creativity to amplify truth and inspire solidarity.
Today, ARC spotlights Javan the Poet, a socially-engaged musician from Nairobi, Kenya, whose art embodies this spirit. Through his lyrics, Javan speaks truth to power—denouncing human rights violations, police brutality, and inequality.
“Art can give a voice to the voiceless,” Javan shared with ARC. “The diversity of mediums allows us to reach a broader audience and impact people across different walks of life.”
His work reminds us that art doesn’t just reflect society—it can transform it.
🔗 Learn more about Javan’s story: https://artistsatriskconnection.org/artist-voice/javan-the-poet/
#Kenya #ArtistsForJustice #GenZProtests
🇰🇪 “Art is more than just a form of expression—it’s a tool to challenge societal norms, raise awareness, and inspire action.” - @javan_thepoet
From Kenya, to Madagascar, Nepal, and beyond, a new generation of young people is rising up—demanding justice, accountability, and change. Artists are at the heart of these movements, using creativity to amplify truth and inspire solidarity.
Today, ARC spotlights Javan the Poet, a socially-engaged musician from Nairobi, Kenya, whose art embodies this spirit. Through his lyrics, Javan speaks truth to power—denouncing human rights violations, police brutality, and inequality.
“Art can give a voice to the voiceless,” Javan shared with ARC. “The diversity of mediums allows us to reach a broader audience and impact people across different walks of life.”
His work reminds us that art doesn’t just reflect society—it can transform it.
🔗 Learn more about Javan’s story: https://artistsatriskconnection.org/artist-voice/javan-the-poet/
#Kenya #ArtistsForJustice #GenZProtests
ARC is excited to take part in the #CECArtsLink2025Assembly: Defending Each Other! — happening THIS WEEK, November 6–7, at La MaMa Ellen Stewart Theatre (NYC) and online.
Join ARC Executive Director Julie Trébault and Achiro P. Olwoch, Ugandan writer, filmmaker, and activist, for a powerful conversation on defending artists and advancing creative freedom.
We’re also honored that longtime ARC collaborator Mai Khoi, a Vietnamese musician and dissident artist, will take part in the Assembly—sharing her experiences and insights on artistic resistance and solidarity.
ARC will also host an Artist Safety Consultation, based on our adaptation of the Safety Guide for Artists to the U.S. context.
As threats to creative expression continue to rise globally, the Assembly—and the artists at its heart—remind us that defending one another is both an act of solidarity and survival.
🔗 Learn more: https://artistsatriskconnection.org/event/arc-cec-artslink/
@achiro.p.olwoch @mai.khoi #DefendingEachOther #CECArtsLink #ArtisticFreedom
ARC is excited to take part in the #CECArtsLink2025Assembly: Defending Each Other! — happening THIS WEEK, November 6–7, at La MaMa Ellen Stewart Theatre (NYC) and online.
Join ARC Executive Director Julie Trébault and Achiro P. Olwoch, Ugandan writer, filmmaker, and activist, for a powerful conversation on defending artists and advancing creative freedom.
We’re also honored that longtime ARC collaborator Mai Khoi, a Vietnamese musician and dissident artist, will take part in the Assembly—sharing her experiences and insights on artistic resistance and solidarity.
ARC will also host an Artist Safety Consultation, based on our adaptation of the Safety Guide for Artists to the U.S. context.
As threats to creative expression continue to rise globally, the Assembly—and the artists at its heart—remind us that defending one another is both an act of solidarity and survival.
🔗 Learn more: https://artistsatriskconnection.org/event/arc-cec-artslink/
@achiro.p.olwoch @mai.khoi #DefendingEachOther #CECArtsLink #ArtisticFreedom