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Kenyan LGBTQI musician Grammo Suspect receives emergency Covid-19 funding
5 May 2020 Grammo Suspect, a Kenyan LGBTQI rapper, activist and spoken word musician, is one of the first artists to receive an emergency grant from Artists at Risk (AR). The AR Covid-19 Emergency Fund was created to support artists … Continue reading
Welcoming Ali Saad to AR-Helsinki
IA Resident – Ali Saad A big welcome to Ali Saad as an Immigré Artists (IA)-Resident at AR-Safe Haven Helsinki! Saad is an Iraqi musician currently working in Finland as a musician, composer and sound designer. He has worked at … Continue reading
AR featured on SUBSTANCE 100
It is with great pleasure that we find Artists at Risk (AR) featured on SUBSTANCE 100, “a new, annual list that outlines a diverse array of artists, activists, collectives, movements and organizations making a substantial change in the world.” And … Continue reading
PRESS: In a Rebuke to Power Lists, Collecteurs Announces Substance 100 by Sam Gaskin
SOURCE: Ocula Sam Gaskin 10.04.2020 PRESS TEXT: In a Rebuke to Power Lists, Collecteurs Announces Substance 100 The list sought to raise the question, what is the purpose of art in the 21st century? Nan Goldin, Die-in (2019). Staged inside … Continue reading
ARTISTS AT RISK (AR) LAUNCHES COVID-19 EMERGENCY FUND
20 April 2020 Artists at Risk (AR) has today launched an emergency fund to support artists who face threats to their freedom or lives and are unable to reach a country of safety during the coronavirus pandemic. Pussy Riot member … Continue reading
Welcoming Gulled Simba to AR-Helsinki
A big welcome to Gulled Simba as an Immigré Artists (IA) Resident at AR-Safe Haven Helsinki! Simba is a Somali pop musician who has been based in Finland since 2014. During his IA-residency he will be working on a new … Continue reading
PRESS: Kurdish artist Fatos Irwen released from Turkish prison – Rûdaw
Related: Bio Fatoş İrwen BREAKING NEWS! Fatoş İrwen has been released from Turkish prison! SOURCE: Rûdaw, Yasmine Mosimann & Shawn Carrié, March 6, 2020 PRESS TEXT: ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Fatos Irwen, a Kurdish artist from Diyarbakir, was released from a … Continue reading
BREAKING NEWS! Fatoş İrwen has been released from Turkish prison!
2 March 2020 BREAKING NEWS Fatoş İrwen has been released from Turkish prison!! Congratulations! Welcome back! ——– Artists at Risk (AR) has long been advocating for the release and just treatment of Fatoş İrwen (bio page). Since 2016, İrwen faced … Continue reading
Jobs at PM/AR: EU PROJECT MANAGER
Artists at Risk (AR) is looking for an experienced EU Project Manager who will be responsible for the overall management of the EU-funded “Artists at Risk (AR)-A European Network of Safe Havens (AR-ENSH) project and further tasks at PM/AR. Responsibilities … Continue reading
EVENT: Kansallisteatterin Undocumented Love tuo näyttämölle viisi esiintyjää ja tositarinaa Suomesta, Irakista ja Syyriasta – Kansallisteatteri
Dokumenttiteatteriesitys tuo näyttämölle rakkautensa vuoksi maastaan paenneen henkilön ja hänen tulkkinsa, isännän ja orjan sekä turvapaikanhakijan, joka saa Helsingissä perheenjäsenensä kuolinuutisen Bagdadista. Kaikki esityksen henkilöt ovat välitilassa ja joutuvat taistelemaan oikeudestaan olla olemassa. Voiko ihminen oikeasti asettua toisen ihmisen asemaan? … Continue reading
