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Held from February 14–16, 2025, the second edition of the Pan-African Network for Artistic Freedom (PANAF) Summit convened 51 participants from 17 countries in Zanzibar, Tanzania. Highlights from Day 2.

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Held from February 14–16, 2025, the second edition of the Pan-African Network for Artistic Freedom (PANAF) Summit convened 51 participants from 17 countries in Zanzibar, Tanzania. The Summit was co-organized by Selam and ARC. Highlights from Day 1.

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In 2025, the United States has seen an upswell in actions threatening artistic freedom. Amid escalating concerns, this timely discussion will incorporate the perspectives of four musicians from around the world who use music as a catalyst for social change: Siddique Ahmed, Afghan bassist and member of Kabul Dreams; DJ Switch, Nigerian performing artist, disc jockey, and activist; David D’Omni, Cuban multidisciplinary artist and musician; and Nadine El Roubi, Sudanese rapper. Moderated by ARC Executive Director Julie Trébault, the event will explore common challenges musicians face abroad, informing a candid conversation on domestic affronts to creative expression and their impacts.

This event is part of New York Music Month (NYMM) in collaboration with the NYC Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME). NYMM is an annual citywide celebration of music and MOME initiative, first created in 2017. Every June, MOME brings together diverse artists, organizations, and other stakeholders, providing free programming that highlights the role of NYC as a global music capital.

Speakers
Siddique Ahmed, Afghanistan
DJ Switch, Nigeria
David D'Omni, Cuba
Nadine El Roubi, Sudan
Julie Trébault, ARC

https://artistsatriskconnection.org/event/arc-new-york-music-month/

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On February 28th, ARC hosted a virtual screening of "The Art of Exile" documentary series. Art of Exile, brings together three documentary shorts from directors Dara Kell and Veena Rao that recount the stories of a visionary, self-taught artist, a boundary-pushing novelist, and a defiant musician who challenge status quos, preconceived notions, and the boundaries of the permissible.

In “The Ex-Criminal” Egyptian novelist Ahmed Naji, weaves tales of youthful defiance, spending two years in prison during the height of Egypt’s crackdown on free expression. In “A Ship From Guantanamo,” Yemeni sculptor Moath al-Alwi creates magical boats out of found materials, while dreaming of freedom from his cell in Guantánamo. And in “I Sing What I See,” Vietnamese pop star Mai Khoi writes songs about sex pushes the boundaries of her craft in her quest to reinvent herself as a dissident. After the screening, musician Mai Khoi and novelist Ahmed Naji will give a live performance, followed by a Q&A with the artists and filmmakers. Moath al-Alwi, whose work is featured in A Ship from Guantánamo, will be represented by his lawyer Beth Jacob in the Q&A.

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COVID-19 has been a cataclysm for cultural rights, threatening a global “cultural catastrophe” with severe, long-lasting consequences for human rights if effective action is not taken immediately. The new report of the United Nations Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, Karima Bennoune, to the Human Rights Council surveys the negative impacts of COVID-19 on cultures and cultural rights worldwide, and the positive potential of cultures and cultural rights to advance rights-respecting solutions and build resilience in the pandemic and post-pandemic.

In this virtual event, the Special Rapporteur will be joined by Cuban performance artist Tania Bruguera, English actor, writer, and theatre director Simon Callow, Zimbabwean cultural expert and producer Daves Guzha, co-founding Artistic Director of Belarus Free Theatre (BFT) Natalia Kaliada, and Executive Director of IFACCA Magdalena Moreno to consider these issues and address relevant recommendations for how to both better defend culture and cultural rights from the detrimental effects of the health crisis as well as levy culture to sustainability rebuild during and in the wake of the pandemic. Humanists International's Director of Advocacy Elizabeth O’Casey and Artists at Risk Connection's Director, Julie Trébault, will chair this event.

This public program is organized by ARC, Humanists International, and Freemuse.

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En esta primera sesión de “Arte en el Encierro”, tres colectivos artisticos y culturales latinoamericanos reflexionarán sobre la situación de pandemia vivida en diferentes paises, cuáles Chile, Colombia y México, donde el número de contagios está creciendo exponencialmente cada dia, y donde se han tomado medidas en muchos casos ambiguas y criticadas por sectores de la sociedad civil. Más allá de la crisis sanitaria, este evento se enfocará en el análisis de los efectos negativos que esta particular situación está surtiendo hacia la libre expresión artistica y los derechos humanos de activistas y creadores, en paises que registran indices particularmente preocupantes de violación. A través de sus experiencias y perspectivas de trabajo especificas, cada colectivo explorará estrategias para enfrentar la nueva situación de una manera eficaz, repensando el trabajo de artistas y defensores de derechos humanos en un contexto de transformación e incertidumbre, cómo el actual. Con la participación de tres miembros de importantes organizaciones artisticas y culturales latinoamericanas, Octavio Gana, Juana Salgado y Lucila Sandoval. La discusión será presentada por Julie Trebault, Directora de ARC y moderada por Alessandro Zagato, Encargado regional para America Latina de ARC.

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