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In the left margin, you can see four main categories of Freemuse's activities.
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If you seek information about what Freemuse's activities were in
a specific year, then click on the timeline above.
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Artists Alert Action Project
15 September 2010 to 15 April 2012
The Artists Alert Action Project is one of Freemuse’s main activity for this period. It includes: the establishment of three local and regional support networks in high risk areas, offering immediate and relevant support to music creators suffering repression and persecution; creation of an online action manual in collaboration with other freedom of expression and human rights agencies; and mapping of arts residencies in the three regions. The project is funded by Sweden’s Special Initiative for Democratisation and Freedom of Expression.
In 2011, a workshop was held in West Africa (Senegal) in May, and another workshop in MENA in June (Cairo)
9 December Artsfex, Copenhagen Summit on Artistic Freedom of Expression is organised by Freemuse and Danish Pen, including a public meeting in Copenhagen. Read more...
21 November Egyptian singer Ramy Essam is the winner of the 2011 Freemuse Award. The artist receives the award at a ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden. Read more...
21 November Freemuse takes part in the conference 'Right!' Read more...
2 October Beneficiary concert for Freemuse in Stockholm
1-2 October Executive Committee meeting
Impossible Music Session no. 4 in New York
10 June In this session, Cuban hip-hop artist Escuadrón Patriota participated live via phone. Read more...
Music Freedom Day 2011
3 March
'Listen to the banned' CD launch in Oslo and New York
Seminar and concert in Den Hague, the Netherlands
Swedish Radio – P2 “full day event”
Concerts and seminars in Bombay, Amman, Gdansk, and more
Petitions for Lapiro to Embassy of Cameroon, Paris
Website activities: www.musicfreedomday.org
February
Presentation at Gradtrad seminar in Dublin, Ireland
23 January to 3 February
Freemuse attended ECOSOC in New York
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Artists Alert Action Project
15 September 2010 to 15 April 2012
The Artists Alert Action Project is Freemuse’s main activity for this period. It includes: the establishment of three local and regional support networks in high risk areas, offering immediate and relevant support to music creators suffering repression and persecution; creation of an online action manual in collaboration with other freedom of expression and human rights agencies; and mapping of arts residencies in the three regions.
The project is funded by Sweden’s Special Initiative for Democratisation and Freedom of Expression.
Support to musicians
June-November Freemuse continuously campaigns for the imprisoned musician Lapiro de Mbanga from Cameroon, and follows up on the on-going court cases and charges against the Kurdish musician Ferhat Tunc in Diyarbakir, Turkey
Impossible Music Session no. 3 in New York
16 November In this session, the Boston-based Afro-pop ensemble Lamine Touré and Group Saloum performed a banned song by the imprisoned Cameroonian singer Lapiro de Mbanga, who joined on mobile phone from his prison cell. Read more...
WOMEX 2010
27-31 October Participation in the world music expo in Copenhagen, Denmark, including a launch-event for the publication ‘Smashed Hits 2.0’.
Music Freedom Day
October Launch of interactive site for Music Freedom Day 2011. www.musicfreedomday.org
Quick Guide to Artist Visa Applications
20 October Launch of a ‘quick guide’ to international conventions and policy recommendations, produced by Freemuse in order to provide arguments to promoters of artists who face severe problems acquiring visas for their tours in Europe. Read more...
Smashed Hits 2.0
21 September A special issue of Index on Censorship about music and freedom of expression produced in collaboration between Freemuse and Index on Censorship, launched at the Free Word Centre in London. Read more on freemuse.org and indexoncensorship.org
Seminars
July Participation and seminar at Førde Folk Music Festival in Norway on 7-11 July. Workshop in collaboration with Azagaia, rapper from Mozambique, in Denmark on 28 July.
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Impossible Music Session no. 2 in New York
Wednesday 30 June In 2009, members of Baloberos Crew were detained and intimidated by members of the military intelligence because of a song which criticises the military and the government. Via a live video feed the group gives a virtual performance in New York. Read more... |
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Freemuse Award 2010
Thursday 25 March Mahsa Vahdat and Ferhat Tunç, the joint winners of the Freemuse Award 2010, gave a short and impressive performance at the award ceremony in London’s Royal Institute of British Architects. Read more...
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Music Freedom Day
Wednesday 3 March Mumbai, Cairo, Kabul, Amman, The Hague, Paris and New York were some of the cities organizing Music Freedom Day events in 2010. Read more...
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Listen to the banned - CD
Wednesday 3 March Compiled by the artist Deeyah and Freemuse, this CD compilation album was published by Norway’s most successful music label, Grappa Records, and distributed internationally. Read more...
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Launch of Freemuse's heavy metal report
Monday 22 February Author Mark LeVine is on skype and facebook, chatting with metalheads and journalists from all over the world. Read more...
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Impossible Music Session Performance series
9 December A concert with the exiled Pakistani singer Haroon Bacha marks the launch of a performance series in New York, USA, which will showcase banned music. Read more... |
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Festival Against Censorship (Zensura At!) Bilbao
On 26-28 November Freemuse participated in Europe’s leading festival against censorship, which included concerts, film screenings, seminars and exhibitions. Read more... |
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Womex networking meeting
Thursday 29 October Freemuse organises a meeting which includes presentations of three initiatives related to freedom of musical expression. Read more... |
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Campaign to release musician Lapiro
In October, Freemuse along with Freedom Now, International PEN, the guitar producer Vigier and the website MyMondoMix.com started petitions, protests and media campaigns against the three-year prison sentence and exorbitant fine imposed on the singer-songwriter Lapiro de Mbanga from Cameroon. Read more... |
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International graduate network
Tuesday 11 August Ole Reitov, Freemuse, lectured on music censorship and freedom of expression in Osnabrück, Germany, in front of an international group of doctoral students. Read more...
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Young Leaders
Friday 12 June Ole Reitov, Freemuse, lectured on music censorship and freedom of expression in the Middle East at a seminar organised in Stockholm by Swedish Institute for 30 young leaders from the Middle East and North Africa. Read more...
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IFEX Global Forum
1-6 June Freemuse took part in the Global Forum on Freedom of Expression in Oslo, Norway, and held meetings with political and media activists as well as sister organisations such as Pen International and Index on Censorship. Artists’ voices were embarrassingly missing at the forum’s sessions. Read more... |
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Mexico
June
Freemuse was invited to the final week of one of Latin America's biggest music festivals, Ollinkan, in one of the most deadly places for musicians, Mexico, for a 40 minute powerpoint presentation on the challenges the organisation is facing in monitoring abuses against musicians.
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Consultative status with ECOSOC
In May the Freemuse secretariat applied for consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). |
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Missing Voices
Wednesday 11 March Ole Reitov, Freemuse, lectured on music censorship/freedom of expression at a seminar organised by `Missing Voices´ - a trans-European Muslim Women Music Makers Campaign. The event taking place in Denmark included artists from the Netherlands, UK and Scandinavia. |
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Music Freedom Day - Freemuse Award
Tuesday 3 March Freemuse in collaboration with Re:Orient organised two seminars and a concert in Stockholm, Sweden celebrating Music Freedom Day. Artists Chiwoniso, Zimbabwe, Ferhat Tunc, Turkey and Mahsa Vahdat joined forces with Sweden's Matti Bye in the concert recorded by Swedish Broadcasting Corporation. The concert even featured the presentation of the Freemuse Award to Pete Seeger, who's grandson and musician Tao Rodriquez-Seeger, received the award on his behalf and performed a couple of songs.
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EU Workshop:Artists mobility/Visa Issues
Friday 13 February Freemuse by invitation from ECOTEC and EU Commission DG Education and Culture took part in a workshop on information systems to support the mobility of artists and professionals in the field of culture. |
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Parliamentary Hearing: Culture and Development
Wednesday 4 February The Danish Parliament held a hearing on the implementation of the Unesco Convention on Cultural Diversity. Ole Reitov, Freemuse, was invited to keep an opening speech along with the Ministers of Development and Culture. Reitov advocated a pro-active solution to visa issues for artists from non EU-countries and suggested national cultural institutions and public broadcasting to actively integrate and promote further artistic expressions from developing countries.
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Democracy in Dakar - Film screenings and seminars in Malmö & Copenhagen
Sunday 1 February & Monday 2 February Filmmaker and musician Ben Herson presented his film Democracy In Dakar about music and politics in Senegal at the Music Doc Festival, Malmoe, Sweden and at the Danish Centre for Culture and Development in Copenhagen, Denmark. Freemuse programme manager Ole Reitov moderated discussions on music and politics with the filmmaker and the audiences.
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