INVITATION
Report launch and debate: Indecency used to silence women artists
Indecency continues to be the main rationale for silencing, imprisoning and harassing women artists globally.
How do governments and societies allow this to happen?
KVINFO
and
Freemuse
would like to invite you to the
following event to find out more:
Thursday 29 November 2018
13:30
–
15:30
Socialdemokratiets gruppeværelse S-090
Danish Parliament, Christiansborg Palace, Copenhagen
hosted by Yildiz Akdogan, MP and Vice Chair of the Gender Equality Committee.
The
e e t ill e ased o Free use’s forth o i g
report:
Creativity Wro
ged: How wo e ’s rights to artistic
freedom are denied and marginalised,
which highlights the inequality, exclusion and harassment of women
artists and audiences around the world, as documented through five years of research. The event will discuss
key challenges and opportunities on how to change structural barriers that silence women artists by those in
power
–
politically, religiously or societally.
Programme
13.00:
Registration and coffee
13.30-14.30:
Welcome by Yildiz Akdogan, MP and Vice Chair of the Gender Equality Committee
Opening by Mette Bock, Minister of Culture
Eiler Nils Fleischer, Director of the Cultural unit of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway (tbc)
Henriette Laursen, Director, KVINFO
Srirak Plipat, Executive Director, Freemuse: Presentation of the report
14.30
–
15.30 Debate (including Q&A with the audience)
Monirah Hashemi, Afghan Playwright and Actor, Sweden
Anders Wahren, Program Director, Roskilde Festival
Cecilie Gregersen Nielsen, Program Manager Civic Space, Amnesty International Denmark
15:30
–
16:00 Coffee
The event will take place in English
RSVP by 22 November