Events
Paris, France
ARC @ Forum Europe Créative 2025
2 December 2025
Ce forum invite artistes, professionnels de la culture, acteurs de l’audiovisuel et des médias, chercheurs et décideurs à réfléchir ensemble : comment, aujourd’hui en Europe, la culture peut-elle encore défendre la liberté, raviver l’engagement et nourrir une démocratie en mouvement ?
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.
Artist
stories
Stories of at-risk artists from all over the world who are committed to protecting their right to freedom of expression and using their art to fight for justice.
India
Leena Manimekalai
Sudan
Osman Obaid
Russia
Zhenya Berkovich
Nicaragua
Ludwing Gómez
China
Rahima Mahmut
Palestine
Shareef Sarhan
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PANAF 2025 - DAY 2
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🚨 ARC condemns the violent arrest of Iranian artists and human rights defenders.
Earlier today, photographer Aliyeh Motalebzadeh, visual artist & activist Sepideh Gholian, and writer Abolfazl Abri were violently detained at a peaceful memorial in Mashhad honoring human rights lawyer Khosro Alikordi, whose death in custody has raised widespread concern.
They were arrested alongside many others, including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi.
⚖️ ARC calls for their immediate and unconditional release.
🎨✍🏽Artists in Iran continue to face intimidation, censorship, and state violence simply for creating, speaking, and resisting.
🌍 Artistic freedom is a human right.
📸 Image credit: @centerforhumanrights (CHRI)
#standwithartists #iran #artisticfreedom #humanrightsviolations #freethemall #StopRepression #iranprotests #womenlifefreedom #artisresistance
@peninternational @amnesty @article19org @hrf @penamerica @humanrightswatch @hyperallergic @guardian
🚨 ARC condemns the violent arrest of Iranian artists and human rights defenders.
Earlier today, photographer Aliyeh Motalebzadeh, visual artist & activist Sepideh Gholian, and writer Abolfazl Abri were violently detained at a peaceful memorial in Mashhad honoring human rights lawyer Khosro Alikordi, whose death in custody has raised widespread concern.
They were arrested alongside many others, including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi.
⚖️ ARC calls for their immediate and unconditional release.
🎨✍🏽Artists in Iran continue to face intimidation, censorship, and state violence simply for creating, speaking, and resisting.
🌍 Artistic freedom is a human right.
📸 Image credit: @centerforhumanrights (CHRI)
#standwithartists #iran #artisticfreedom #humanrightsviolations #freethemall #StopRepression #iranprotests #womenlifefreedom #artisresistance
@peninternational @amnesty @article19org @hrf @penamerica @humanrightswatch @hyperallergic @guardian
🌍✨ Human Rights Day: "Human Rights, Our Everyday Essentials"
Today, ARC honors five powerful artists whose work advances justice, resilience, and human dignity:
🇵🇸 Doha Kahlout
🇨🇺 Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara
🇮🇷 Samaneh Atef
🇺🇦 Nikita Kadan
🇦🇫 Zahra Abrahimi
These artists remind us that human rights are not optional—they are our essential to our everyday. ✊🎨
🔗 Read their full profiles: https://artistsatriskconnection.org/stories?category=Artist%20Profile&page=1
#HumanRightsDay #EverydayEssentials #ArtForChange #ArtistsAtRisk #CreativityForJustice #UN
🌍✨ Human Rights Day: "Human Rights, Our Everyday Essentials"
Today, ARC honors five powerful artists whose work advances justice, resilience, and human dignity:
🇵🇸 Doha Kahlout
🇨🇺 Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara
🇮🇷 Samaneh Atef
🇺🇦 Nikita Kadan
🇦🇫 Zahra Abrahimi
These artists remind us that human rights are not optional—they are our essential to our everyday. ✊🎨
🔗 Read their full profiles: https://artistsatriskconnection.org/stories?category=Artist%20Profile&page=1
#HumanRightsDay #EverydayEssentials #ArtForChange #ArtistsAtRisk #CreativityForJustice #UN
📣 Discover firsthand how the Cuban Migrant Artist Resilience Fellowship has supported Cuban artists in exile with their creative processes and helped them advance new stages in their careers.
Join the Resilience Fellowship community and gain access to financial support, mentorship, collaborative networks, and opportunities to showcase your work.
To ensure broad access and equitable distribution of support, previous recipients of the fellowship are not eligible to reapply.
More info 👇
https://artistsatriskconnection.org/story/programa-de-becas-de-resiliencia-para-artistas-cubanos-migrantes/
#CubanArt #ARCAlumni #ResilienceFellowship #CubanMigrantArtists
📣 Discover firsthand how the Cuban Migrant Artist Resilience Fellowship has supported Cuban artists in exile with their creative processes and helped them advance new stages in their careers.
Join the Resilience Fellowship community and gain access to financial support, mentorship, collaborative networks, and opportunities to showcase your work.
To ensure broad access and equitable distribution of support, previous recipients of the fellowship are not eligible to reapply.
More info 👇
https://artistsatriskconnection.org/story/programa-de-becas-de-resiliencia-para-artistas-cubanos-migrantes/
#CubanArt #ARCAlumni #ResilienceFellowship #CubanMigrantArtists
“For me, art cannot be separated from life. There was art in everything my people did.” — Yacunã Tuxá
Yacunã Tuxá is an Indigenous illustrator and visual artist from the Tuxá people of Bahia, Brazil. Her work blends ancestral memory, identity, land, and the strength of Indigenous women into vibrant contemporary forms.
Rooted in the stories and experiences of her community, Yacunã’s illustrations reclaim narratives long erased by displacement and colonial violence. Through color, symbolism, and attention to embodiment and territory, she creates images that honor Indigenous memory while resisting ongoing attempts to silence it.
🔗 Learn more about her work and story:
https://artistsatriskconnection.org/artist-voice/yacuna-tuxa/
Image: “Corpo Canoa,” image courtesy of the artist.
#YacunaTuxa #IndigenousArt #ArtistSpotlight
“For me, art cannot be separated from life. There was art in everything my people did.” — Yacunã Tuxá
Yacunã Tuxá is an Indigenous illustrator and visual artist from the Tuxá people of Bahia, Brazil. Her work blends ancestral memory, identity, land, and the strength of Indigenous women into vibrant contemporary forms.
Rooted in the stories and experiences of her community, Yacunã’s illustrations reclaim narratives long erased by displacement and colonial violence. Through color, symbolism, and attention to embodiment and territory, she creates images that honor Indigenous memory while resisting ongoing attempts to silence it.
🔗 Learn more about her work and story:
https://artistsatriskconnection.org/artist-voice/yacuna-tuxa/
Image: “Corpo Canoa,” image courtesy of the artist.
#YacunaTuxa #IndigenousArt #ArtistSpotlight
🛑🇧🇩 “The government must take decisive action to protect Baul singers—and ensure the law is never weaponized to suppress artistic freedom or religious expression.” — Julie Trébault, ARC Executive Director
ARC calls on the Government of Bangladesh to protect Baul artists following the arrest of singer Abul Sarkar and increasingly violent attacks on Baul community members.
Sufi Baul musicians, guardians of a UNESCO-recognized cultural tradition, have faced escalating assaults and criminalization by religious extremist groups, while authorities have taken limited action to ensure their safety.
ARC urges the government to drop the charges against Sarkar, safeguard Baul singers and community, and defend artistic freedom across Bangladesh.
Read our statement: https://artistsatriskconnection.org/statement/arc-calls-on-government-of-bangladesh-to-protect-the-baul-community/
#ProtectBauls #ArtisticFreedom #Bangladesh #BaulMusic
🛑🇧🇩 “The government must take decisive action to protect Baul singers—and ensure the law is never weaponized to suppress artistic freedom or religious expression.” — Julie Trébault, ARC Executive Director
ARC calls on the Government of Bangladesh to protect Baul artists following the arrest of singer Abul Sarkar and increasingly violent attacks on Baul community members.
Sufi Baul musicians, guardians of a UNESCO-recognized cultural tradition, have faced escalating assaults and criminalization by religious extremist groups, while authorities have taken limited action to ensure their safety.
ARC urges the government to drop the charges against Sarkar, safeguard Baul singers and community, and defend artistic freedom across Bangladesh.
Read our statement: https://artistsatriskconnection.org/statement/arc-calls-on-government-of-bangladesh-to-protect-the-baul-community/
#ProtectBauls #ArtisticFreedom #Bangladesh #BaulMusic
✨ Reintroducing Carlos Quintela and Hamlet Lavastida, participants in ARC’s Resilience Fellowship for Cuban Migrant Artists in its 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 editions. During the fellowship, they developed their respective projects “In the Name of Henry” and “Cultura penitenciaria.”
🇨🇺 The Resilience Fellowship aims to support Cuban migrant artists in their artistic practice and increase the visibility of their work through various resources.
📌 Apply for the current edition of the fellowship here: https://artistsatriskconnection.org/story/programa-de-becas-de-resiliencia-para-artistas-cubanos-migrantes/
Image 1: Hamlet Lavastida
Image 2: Hamlet Lavastida installing one of his works
Image 3: Detail from the solo exhibition “Cultura penitenciaria”
Image 4: Carlos Quintela
Image 5: Still from the documentary “In the Name of Henry”
#CubanArt #CubanMigrantArtists #ResilienceFellowship #ArtIsNotACrime
✨ Reintroducing Carlos Quintela and Hamlet Lavastida, participants in ARC’s Resilience Fellowship for Cuban Migrant Artists in its 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 editions. During the fellowship, they developed their respective projects “In the Name of Henry” and “Cultura penitenciaria.”
🇨🇺 The Resilience Fellowship aims to support Cuban migrant artists in their artistic practice and increase the visibility of their work through various resources.
📌 Apply for the current edition of the fellowship here: https://artistsatriskconnection.org/story/programa-de-becas-de-resiliencia-para-artistas-cubanos-migrantes/
Image 1: Hamlet Lavastida
Image 2: Hamlet Lavastida installing one of his works
Image 3: Detail from the solo exhibition “Cultura penitenciaria”
Image 4: Carlos Quintela
Image 5: Still from the documentary “In the Name of Henry”
#CubanArt #CubanMigrantArtists #ResilienceFellowship #ArtIsNotACrime
🛑🇨🇺 “Luis Manuel’s decision to, once again, resort to a hunger strike on the eve of his 38th birthday, his fifth spent behind bars, is stark and tragic. That an artist must literally put his life on the line simply for creating, imagining, and demanding a freer Cuba is intolerable,” — Julie Trébault, ARC Executive Director
ARC expresses grave concern following reports that Cuban artist and activist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara has begun a hunger strike while imprisoned. His protest highlights the extreme repression faced by artists and independent voices across Cuba.
ARC urges Cuban authorities to immediately release Otero Alcántara and all unjustly-detained artists and prisoners of conscience in Cuba.
Read our statement: https://artistsatriskconnection.org/statement/arc-calls-for-release-of-cuban-artist-luis-manuel-otero-alcantara-as-he-begins-hunger-strike-in-prison/
#FreeLuisManuel #LuisManuelOteroAlcántara #SOSCuba #VocesPresas #ArtistsAtRisk #Cuba #ArtisticFreedom
🛑🇨🇺 “Luis Manuel’s decision to, once again, resort to a hunger strike on the eve of his 38th birthday, his fifth spent behind bars, is stark and tragic. That an artist must literally put his life on the line simply for creating, imagining, and demanding a freer Cuba is intolerable,” — Julie Trébault, ARC Executive Director
ARC expresses grave concern following reports that Cuban artist and activist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara has begun a hunger strike while imprisoned. His protest highlights the extreme repression faced by artists and independent voices across Cuba.
ARC urges Cuban authorities to immediately release Otero Alcántara and all unjustly-detained artists and prisoners of conscience in Cuba.
Read our statement: https://artistsatriskconnection.org/statement/arc-calls-for-release-of-cuban-artist-luis-manuel-otero-alcantara-as-he-begins-hunger-strike-in-prison/
#FreeLuisManuel #LuisManuelOteroAlcántara #SOSCuba #VocesPresas #ArtistsAtRisk #Cuba #ArtisticFreedom
“We fell in love with how calligraphy can define a city.” — Javier Serrano Guerra
Spanish artist Javier Serrano Guerra (part of the collective Boa Mistura) has spent more than two decades turning urban walls into canvases of belonging, community and resistance. With a group rooted in graffiti culture, Boa Mistura creates murals and installations that respond to the identity of each place, often in close collaboration with local residents.
Their work reaches beyond aesthetics. Murals, public-space interventions and community art projects become tools for solidarity, visibility, and dignity.
🔗 Read their story: https://artistsatriskconnection.org/artist-voice/javier-serrano-guerra-boa-mistura/
@boamistura #StreetArt #UrbanArt #Grafitti #ArtistSpotlight
“We fell in love with how calligraphy can define a city.” — Javier Serrano Guerra
Spanish artist Javier Serrano Guerra (part of the collective Boa Mistura) has spent more than two decades turning urban walls into canvases of belonging, community and resistance. With a group rooted in graffiti culture, Boa Mistura creates murals and installations that respond to the identity of each place, often in close collaboration with local residents.
Their work reaches beyond aesthetics. Murals, public-space interventions and community art projects become tools for solidarity, visibility, and dignity.
🔗 Read their story: https://artistsatriskconnection.org/artist-voice/javier-serrano-guerra-boa-mistura/
@boamistura #StreetArt #UrbanArt #Grafitti #ArtistSpotlight