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Safe Havens Global Stream 2020

Safe Havens Global Stream 2020: A BROAD VARIETY OF ARTISTIC INTERVENTIONS

December 18, 2020

Safe Havens is a once-a-year conference opportunity where arts and human rights activists share and use their experience. This year organized as a two-stage series of online seminars under the title Safe Havens Global Stream. Prioritising artists, smaller organisations and individuals working in the field of artistic freedom and human right.

Phase one of the conference took place between 10 and 13 November with a series of workshops. Then, based on issues and questions that came up during these workshops, phase two of the conference took place on 3 December 2020 with two round-table discussions.

A very fruitful and inspiring gathering all together, although this year as webinars on the internet. 164 registrations in November, and during the streamed round table-sessions 3. December we registered 250 visitors through the streaming partner HowlRound, 154 live views on Facebook, and 214 views on the conference Vimeo-stream. 18 nations with US on top including 17 US states.

Museum of Movement in Malmö, Sweden, was the main organizer (closing down 31 December due to a total budget cut from the Ministry of Culture in Sweden !) with Safemuse as close partner, and a long row of supporters within the Safe Havens international network.

A comprehensive report is on its way.

INSPIRING ARTISTIC INTERVENTIONS

Safemuse organized a bouquet of artistic interventions presented both during the November and December sessions.

And as a ‘Great Thank You’ to all Safemuse’s friends and partners for this odd year’s cooperation, and not the least a Grateful Gesture to all the artists we have collaborated with throughout 2020, we’ll bring you here the artistic interventions presented during Safe Havens Global Stream 2020. Some strong and beautiful artistic interventions from artists with very different backgrounds, but also a common ground in the urge to express themselves freely – in spite of great difficulties.

Hamid Sakhizada is a highly acknowledged musician from Afghanistan, specialized in the Hazara traditional music and the instrument dambura.
Hamid has a large fan base in Afghanistan and abroad, and has participated in the 2012 ABU Annual Song Contest and Afghan Star, the equivalent to the Idol song contest. He has performed in several countries, as well as having produced three albums.
Hamid’s all-consuming passion for the Hazara music has cost him dearly. The Hazara-people is a minority in Afghanistan, and due to his tireless efforts to preserve the tradition, Hamid became subject to a steady campaign of threats and violent harassment from groups who oppose the minority Hazara culture, as well as from religious traditionalists.
Hamid was forced to leave his country, and in 2016 he came as guest musician to Safe Music Haven Harstad, Norway, where he still lives and continues to perform his music openly and keeping the Hazara tradition alive.
The album Dai Raft was released in Nov 2019 (LIDIO/Safemuse). With help from an all-star team of musicians Hamid brings old traditions alive through new collaborations, interpretations and expressions. And his artistic intervention during Safe Havens Global Stream is from the release concert of Dai Raft.

Hamid Sakhizada/Dai Raft: ‘My heart’
Hamid Sakhizada (vocals and dambura), Harpreet Bansal (violin), Birger Mistereggen (jew’s harp and rope tensioned drum, percussion), Kaveh Mahmudiyan (tombak, daf and bandir)
Video by Freemuse/ Ingvar Kolbjørnsen

Hamid Sakhizada/Dai Raft: ‘Dambura’
Hamid Sakhizada (vocals and dambura), Harpreet Bansal (violin), Birger Mistereggen (jew’s harp and rope tensioned drum, percussion), Kaveh Mahmudiyan (tombak, daf and bandir)
Video by Freemuse/ Ingvar Kolbjørnsen

Mai Khoi is a Vietnamese celebrated pop star, singer and musician. She has been playing music professionally since she was 12 – in her father’s wedding band, and in 2010 she was awarded the Vietnam Television Song and Album of the Year Award, the highest award for song writing in her country. Her music is distinct in terms of its emotional range, her wide vocal register and the distinct tonal qualities of her voice.
Mai Khoi is somewhat of an anomaly for a celebrity in a Communist country like Vietnam, for having spoken out about sexuality, LGBT rights and violence against women. And in 2016 Mai Khoi broke international headlines after she became the first Vietnamese celebrity in history to nominate herself for the National Assembly on a pro-democracy platform.
After this she has been banned from performing in Vietnam, harassed and detained. Even the closed recording session of her first album after changing from pop icon to artist activist, with only invited friends and supporters in the studio, the police showed up and obstructed her work (‘Dissent’ LIDIO/Safemuse 2018).
The music Mai Khoi will perform during Safe Havens Global Stream is from a project that was planned premiered in Oslo in may this year. Together with Norwegian musician and composer/ music arranger Julie Ofelia Østrem Ossum the stage production ‘Mai Khoi Song Cycle’ is still in the making, with Mai Khoi in New York and Ofelia in Oslo – due to corona. So, this is a sneak peek into what will be on stage when the world again opens up after the pandemic.
Mai Khoi is for the time being an Artist Protection Fund Fellow.

Mai Khoi: ‘Lanninh’ & ‘Meow’
Mai Khoi (vocals and keybord), Julie Ofelia Østrem Ossum (cello)
Video by the artist/Safemuse.

Mai Khoi: ‘Love’ & ‘Just be Patient’
Mai Khoi (vocals and keybord), Julie Ofelia Østrem Ossum (cello)
Video by the artist/Safemuse.

Yasmine Baramawy is an Egyptian musician, sound artist, Oud performer and composer based in Malmö. She develops an original sound universe around her practice of the Oud (modified and augmented by a low string) but also around concrete music and other electronic experiments. She plays one of the world’s oldest instruments yet she manages to work with a curious blend of different approaches and genres like oriental, rock and classic music. She builds sound installations mingling with poetry and spoken word added to her Oud live manipulations, her approach is characterized by a permanent sound research exploring both the acoustic tradition of the oud and the adventurous and transversal sound practices. She composed and performed live with experimental and dance theatre plays and wrote scores for film production in the alternative scene in Egypt.

Yasmine Elbaramawy: ‘about to’
Yasmine Elbaramawy (oud)
(Egypt/Sweden)
Video by the artist/Safemuse.
Special thanks to Ahmed Hararah.
Thanks’ to Inter Arts Center Malmö for providing the studio facilities.

Confess is originally an Iranian heavy metal band. They are known for having faced charges in Iran for their music, in which they expressed anti-religious and anti-government views. Confess in Iran played together for 10 years, and released 2 albums, an EP and several singles.
Khosravi and Ilkhani were arrested in November 2015 and held in solitary confinement. At that time, they potentially faced execution after being charged with blasphemy for “writing Satanic music and speaking to foreign radio stations”. In July 2019, the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Tehran handed Khosravi and Ilkhani a combined sentence of 14 1⁄2 years in prison for the crime of playing metal. Khosravi was also sentenced to 74 lashes. Nikan managed to escape the country and landed in Safe Music Haven Harstad, and a while later, it also became possible for Arash to come to Norway. They have teamed up with by Norwegian musicians, and are developing their distinct and powerful metal music and are planning a tour in the spring of 2021.

Confess: ‘Evin’ & ‘I am your god’
Nikan Khosravi (vokals/guitar), Arash Ilkhani (keyboard/dj), Roger Tunheim Jakobsen (drums), Steffen Normark (guitar), Erling Malm (bass)
Video by the Normark Photography

Lavon Volski an icon of Belarusian rock music, a cultural figure, an author. His songs are anthems of those who dream of a democratic and free Belarus. Thus, Volski since many years has been on the regime’s infamous “black list” of artists never played on national radio and banned from performing. Lavon Volski has created several successful solo projects and he founded bands such as Mroya, N.R.M., Zet and Krambambulya, which all made a huge impact on the development of a Belarusian-speaking rock music and of Belarusian culture in general.
Lavon is awarded numerous musical awards, and he received the Freemuse Award 2016.

Lavon Volski: ‘Air Balloon’ & ‘Enemies of the people’
Lavon Volski (vocals/ guitar), Paval Tryputs (guitar), Siarhei Adamovič (bass), Paval Mamonaū (drums)
Film/video production: Kanstancin Siarohin, Valery Kandracjeu
Studio: EverestMedia by Paval Sinila

Safe Havens Global Stream 2020 organized by Museum of Movements in corporation with Safemuse, and with kind support from Fritt Ord, Norwegian Arts Council.

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Pouya Pour-Amin: An artist’s journey from fear to freedom

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Safemuse Artist Touring High Schools

SAFEMUSE RESIDENCE ARTIST TOURING HIGH SCHOOLS

December 9, 2020

 Nicolai López and Carlos “Gato” David Catun Quintana. Photo: Kristian Glomnes/SEANSE

Safemuse residence artist, Guatemalan break dancer Gato (Carlos Catun), together with colleagues Nicolai López and Piero Issa, just finished their premiere DKS (Den kulturelle skolesekken) tour in Trøndelag, “BBoy for life”.

The production, a combination of screening of the documentary “BBoy for life”, live performance and a following conversation with the studens, was presented for High schools in Trøndelag, Norway. The student’s response was overwhelming. The tour had a big impact on everyone involved:

“It’s amazing to see the faces of the youths brighten when they see the documentary about Gatos fight for artistic freedom, and realize that they actually get to meet Gato after the film. During the show the students gave full attention to what was happening”, comments fellow performer and Safemuse coordinator Nicolai López.

The tour followed a week residence at SEANSE (Senter for kunstproduksjon) in Volda, where the artists together with film maker Fahil Anweri, set designer Even Børsum and director Jon Tombre got to work and prepare the production. The production consists of the documentary “BBoy for life” and an audio visual performance that shows the story after this documentary was made. The show includes a dialogue with the students where they get to reflect and share what they themselves fight for, and get the possibility to ask Gato direct questions.

Experiences from the tour

When the students got the possibility to share what they themselves are fighting for, they presented a series of topics: friends and family, the environment, equality and justice for all, self-determination over your own body, fight against racism and the fight for freedom of expression.

The questions for Gato varied from political questions about Guatemala and Latin Amerika, to what football team he supports. The questions that repeatedly came up were:

How is the crew Gato dansed with in the movie now doing in Guatemala? Are they still dancing?

Do you have any contact with your family?

How can we help?

A lot of tears where shed during the time they spent with the students. If not for Covid19, there would have been a lot of hugs. And not hugging was something the artists found the most hard during the tour.

Gato’s message for the students:

“Norway is a land full of possibilities, possibilities for children and youth I never could have had if not coming here. I do hope you see these possibilities and seize them! You can become whatever you want!” 

Carlos “Gato” David Catun Quintana. Photo: Kristian Glomnes /SEANSE

The artistic team:

Director: Jon Tombre, foto/film: Fahil Anweri, scenografi: Even Børsum

Performers: Carlos Catun, Nicolai López, Piero Issa

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Safe Havens Global Stream November 11.-13. 2020

Safe Havens Global Stream November 11.-13. 2020

November 9, 2020

Julie Ofelia Østrem Ossum and Mai Khoi will perform during the conference Safe Havens Global Stream

Safe Havens Conference is starting up tomorrow: Safe Havens Global Stream – with more than 150 participants from all over the world!

This year the annual Safe Havens is a two phased, streamed conference event. Safemuse is a proud partner and responsible for the artistic program, presenting some fantastic artists, activist and great performers. This includes Hamid Sakhizada with his ‘Dad Raft’-ensemble, Mai Khoi together with cellist and composer Julie Ofelia Østrem Ossum, Egyptian oud performer and sound artist Yasmine Elbaramawy, Iranian metal band Confess, and finally the legendary Belarusian rocker Lavon Volski with his band.

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Safe Havens – A global network meeting

The annual Safe Havens conference is a global network meeting. The conference is organized in a process of collaboration between artists, different cultural operators and organizations, where focus is directed on the connection between art, culture and human rights.

The conference is a way of visualizing the significant position of culture and academia in human rights advocacy and moving towards sharing and using knowledge between artists, cultural operators, scholars and major human rights and cultural organizations.

Fredrik Elg, initiator of the conference, said: “We are artists, writers, musicians, activists and administrators from all over the world. We are in this together. And, the Safe Havens conference is the place where we come together. The conference is not a step towards establishing a new formal network, it is an open forum for all of us who see a point in meeting, interacting and sharing with new and old friends in order to learn from each other. It is a cosmopolitan space – a platform – where new collaborations take shape.”

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Artist in residence meets engaged youth

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE MEETS ENGAGED YOUTH

October 10, 2020

DANCE, FREEDOM AND THE POWER OF ART

For the fourth year Safemuse visited Solidaritetsungdommen, Norwegian People Aids’ youth organization, at their annual seminar at Utøya.

“Gato has been dancing since he was fifteen. For him dancing isn´t just a way of expression, but the way of expressing himself. When he dances others listen, they stop. They see the possibility of a different world. That is why he is dangerous. Because Hope is dangerous. Because youths with hope are youths that create change. And those who don’t want change are those in power. They are threatened by Gato, by dance, by arts’ ability to make people feel.”

Celina Jerman Bright-Taylor, Safemuse  

 

«People change the world» is the slogan of Norwegian People Aid and Solidaritetsungdommen. Safemuse visited their seminar at Utøya a weekend in September, to talk about the importance of art and artistic freedom, and how art contributes to changing the world. 

 

We screened the documentary B-Boys for life that documents the life of our artist in residence Carlos «Gato» Catuns’ break dance crew in Guatemala City. The documentary describes the brutality of the gangs, but also shows the power they have in society.

 

As well as showing the documentary Gato also participated in a conversation together with Nicolai Lopez and Celina Jerman Bright Taylor from Safemuse about the importance of art as an alternative to criminality. He spoke about how dancing changed his life and how it gives youths an opportunity to find a community somewhere else than amongst the gangs that control large parts of Guatemala.

 

After the conversation we had the opportunity to continue the talk with engaged youths that use their spare time to contribute to different parts of Norwegian Peoples Aids’ work. It was moving to experience Utøya filled with young people that want to create change. It gave hope for change also in Guatemala.

 

Utøya is an island in the Tyrifjorden lake about 38 km northwest of Oslo city centre. Utøya is owned by the Workers’ Youth League (AUF), a youth group associated with the Labour Party in Norway.


On 22 July 2011, a mass shooting took place at the AUF’s summer youth camp, where over 500 young people were staying. The perpetrator, Anders Behring Breivik arrived at the island after setting off a car bomb in the Government Quarter in Oslo. 


Combined, the attacks in Oslo and Utøya left 77 dead, with 69 killed on the island. 

 

For more information, see the 22 July Centre.

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MEET THE NEW TEAM

MEET THE NEW TEAM

August 27, 2020

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THE SAFEMUSE ADMINISTRATIVE TEAM IS GROWING

Safemuse is entering the fall with some wonderful additions to our team. With one new full time employee, one new temp and one new residence coordinator, we will keep working to give artists at risk a safe place to work and develop their art. Kicking off the autumn with a two-day seminar, the administrative team got to work on some of our future projects. We are proud to introduce you to the newest members of our team, what their background is and what they think about artistic freedom. 

Celina Jerman Bright-Taylor

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Celina has a background in international relations and international law. She has worked with human rights issues in several countries, but has in the last years been working in civil society organizations in Norway like NOAS, FIVAS and the Norwegian Council for Africa. She has been especially involved in the work with corporate social responsibility. Celina is passionate about how we through art and creative expressions can shed light on important questions in our society, how art opens up new ways to meet people and allows us to understand how changes in the society affects people’s lives. 

Q: What does artistic freedom mean to you?

– To me, artistic freedom means the right to self-expression on your own terms. Art, in all its shapes and forms, talks to our emotions, to something deeper within us than what is purely intellectual. That is why art is dangerous, provocative and an agent for change. There is a feeling of community when we chant the same song in a demonstration. A short poem can hold a world of questions and of answers and comprehension of complex issues.  A theater can create a debate concerning both the personal and the political. But to me, most importantly, people should have the freedom to create their own space, to work with and express what it is that lives within themselves.

Celina Jerman Bright-Taylor enters a full time position as Program Officer.

Frøydis Bergheim Ruud

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Frøydis has in the recent years worked as label manager at Grappa Musikkforlag AS, where she has been in charge of traditional music label Heilo, as well as jazz/experimental labels Hubro and Odin. She has also been the Grappa liaison for Safemuse’s own label LIDIO. She holds a master degree in traditional music from the University of South-East Norway. As a playing manager of ‘Myllargutens gammaldansorkester’ she released several albums and toured a variety of countries in Europe with the 15 piece band. Her optimistic world view drives her to work for what she truly believes in: that when a multitude of cultural expressions are made available to many, we as a society will be more open and understanding and progressive. She brings with her a great passion for facilitating collaborations and cultural meetings across genres and borders.

Q: What does artistic freedom mean to you?

– The role of art in our society is to describe, challenge and criticize. That is why artistic freedom is essential to maintain a well-functioning society that moves forward, and never is allowed to stagnate.

Frøydis Bergheim Ruud is entering a 50% temporary position as Project Coordinator.

Nicolai López

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Nicolai comes from a background in hip hop and theatre. He has worked for over a decade as a professional dancer, before he started his present career as a creative producer and project manager within the arts field. He has a deep passion for and knowledge about the Northern Norwegian culture, as well as the Sámi culture and indigenous culture in various parts of the world. He has run an artist management for Northern Norwegian and Sámi artists, working amongst others with the successful band ISÁK. He has also worked with several theatre and dance projects – the most famous being ‘Vidas Extremas’ that earned a Hedda Award and the Theatre Critics Award in 2016.

Q: What does artistic freedom mean to you?

– Artistic freedom is an essential right. Through my work with indigenous culture I have come to understand that it is also completely necessary. For many people, the stage is the only place you can express yourself freely, even if that stage is hidden, and everywhere else is a dangerous place. Those who truly fight for artistic freedom are people who dare to risk something, risks that we in Norway will probably never really understand. We might think that we are willing to die for our art, but we will never have to make that choice. This is why I want to use all my effort and knowledge, to fight for those who know and have experienced what the price of artistic freedom can be.

Nicolai enters a 50% position as Residence Coordinator for our current residency with the dancer Gato.

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NON-EU/EEA ARTISTS IN NORWAY CALL FOR SUPPORT IN WAKE OF COVID-19

FIGHTING FOR THE RIGHT TO WORK

June 22, 2020

NON-EUROPEAN ARTISTS COME TOGETHER IN TIMES OF TROUBLE

There is no doubt that Covid-19 has put the culture sector in a state of crisis. Tours have been cancelled, concerts are a no-go and the internet has been flooded with free live shows for- and by all. In Norway, many residents are eligible for some type of support, either through social services or via new grants and funds aimed at artists and cultural institutions effected by the pandemic. A last option is to find alternative employment.

A group that has an entirely different set of challenges is the non-EU/EEA artists that live and work in Norway. They too, have lost a large amount of work, but due to their status as specialized workers, they cannot take any other kind of job to support themselves during this crisis.

Acting on some of these growing frustrations, Norwegian-based visual artist Rodrigo Ghattas-Peréz (Peru) and Gabrielle Paré (Canada) has created a support group for non-European artists based in Norway. The effort has led to a petition signed by over a thousand artists, calling on the Norwegian Government and political parties to take action.

Safemuse believes that access to employment opportunities is a fundamental right that should be granted to everyone – regardless of national affiliation. These artists should have the same right to work as professionals and present their artistic expression to the public as Norwegian and EU citizens has.

The petition states that:

«The economic situation created by COVID-19 has left many of us without work, and no opportunity to seek alternative employment. This is compounded by the fact that most of us cannot access unemployment benefits, temporary income protection (midlertidig inntektssikring), and economic social assistance. Those who apply for social assistance put the renewal of their residence permit at risk.»

The group has listed a series of demands that can solve the situation – although no response from the government has been given this far. Continuing their work, the Non-European artists based in Norway are calling for more artists to tell their stories, and working with creating a network of artists throughout the country.

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TBT: EL HAQED LIVE AT BLÅ

El Haqed live at Blå 2015

May 18, 2020

El Haqed / L7A9D (Oslo 2015)

FRESH FROM THE VAULT: To celebrate the new Safemuse website, we have dug out a video from May 1st 2015 featuring the Moroccan rapper El Haqed/L7a9d on stage together with the Norwegian rap-duo ‘Gatas Parlament’ (Street Parliament).

El Haqed’s appearance was part of a residency organized by Safemuse that included working with ‘Paleface’ in Helsinki and the Palestinian rapper Khaled Harara in Gothenburg. In Oslo he appeared as Special Guest during Gatas Parlament’s May Day party at ‘Blå’, one of the leading venues in Norway within ‘alternative’ live music.

L7a9d or El Haqed (meaning: ‘The Enraged One’) is a Moroccan rapper and human rights activist that has been imprisoned on spurious charges three times in Morocco in as many years, the last time for four months in 2014 – most probably because of his popularity and has lyrics that condemn corruption and police brutality. El Haqed rose to prominence when he was imprisoned for criticizing Mohammed VI, the king of Morocco. After two years in prison he was released in 2013. In February 2014 he released a new album called Waloo. El Haqed faced difficulties in pursuing his recording career when studios did not want to work with him fearing government surveillance. He was banned from performing in public and subsequently Safemuse invited him for a Nordic residency round trip to meet colleagues and have the possibility to work and perform. When returning to Morocco after the residency, he again was approached by the authorities, and found it best to leave. He is now based in Brussels, Belgium,

Gatas Parlament (currently Elling Borgersrud and Jester) started out in 1993, was the first hip-hoppers to release a recording in Norwegian, and have through the years caused quite some controversy with their strong left-leaning political lyrics and views. 

‘Shof’

As a result of a nightly session in the studio of Gatas Parlament in May 2015, the track ‘Shof’ featuring El Haqed was included in Gatas album ‘Gatas 4 Life’, released in February last year.

Check out ‘Shof’ at Bandcamp or Spotify.  

The 2015 residency was organized in cooperation with HIAP/Nordic Fresh Air Network and Perpetuum Mobile in Helsinki and Konstepidemin in Gothenburg, supported by Creo – the union for arts and culture, The Finish Musicians’ Union and SKAP – Swedish composers and lyricists.

Film by Andreas Leonardsen.

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APPEAL BY DEEYAH KHAN

Artistic freedom and populism

March 3, 2020

‘FRI KUNST 2020’ / MUSIC FREEDOM DAY: Deeyah Khan, an award-winning film director, human rights activist, record producer and former singer and artist, writes about the necessity and need for the power of art and artistic freedom in todays world, full of armed conflicts, inequality, radicalisation, authoritarianism, populism, extremist movements and other forms of intolerance.

This text by Deeyah Khan is written for the ‘Art Freedom’-week (‘FRI KUNST 2020’) organized in Norway in connection with the world wide Music Freedom Day. 

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Art is powerful. Art is a necessary expression of what it means to be human. Art is beauty, art is the harshness of truth. Art is activism, art is a mirror to our society. It has the ability to touch our feelings and to connect us to each other beyond our differences. It has the power to speak differently to each person; to reach us on an emotional level. In theaters, through stories and museums, concert halls and our own homes, art invites us to see the world from another person’s perspective, even if only for a moment. And in a world where it seems we’re never more divided, with populism and identarian politics ranging through Europe, through Asia and through America, these moments of perspective have never felt as precious.

We’re being told to stay in our boxes – of race, ethnicity, religion, sexuality and all the other reductive identities there are – and not to look outside. But art carves windows into our box, so we can see into other spaces, other experiences, other lives. If we can understand and empathise with others then we can build connections between each other. These are the connections that hold our societies together, that build our mutual understanding, and our sense of community.

This is not to say that art is always a benign force. Art can reinforce conservative norms. It presents us with endless stereotypes of nagging housewives and incompetent husbands. It shows us black and brown people as enemies, that’s if it shows us them at all. At its worst, art can be leveraged in service of totalitarianism and hate. So art must always be open to critique. But we have to treat any approach to censorship with the utmost caution, whether it comes from our enemies…or even from our allies. Wherever we sit on the political spectrum, none of us should be taping up the windows of the boxes we live in.

When it comes to censorship we have to recognise that the people most impacted by the heavy hand of the state, or the harassment of radicalised mobs, are vulnerable people: women, and members of minorities with little political influence. We live in an era of macho, populist politics, the era of Trump, Duterte, Modi, Bolsonaro, Putin and Erdogan. Populists present themselves as ‘men of the people’, often trading on senses of grievance, entitlement and resentment to present themselves as a representative of the majority: the real, true, pure, patriotic citizens of the state. They position themselves as martyrs to political correctness, unable to speak freely. These ‘true citizens’ are contrasted to the supposed ‘elite’ – a category that includes politicians, academics, professionals – and artists, even those working as baristas while they write their first collection of poetry.

Freedom of expression is important to us all. But as diversity is marginalised, those margins where art is created become a dangerous place. Art from the margins becomes more dangerous to create – and all the more valuable to our societies. As long as there is art coming from the margins, there’s still hope that we can redraw connections between people. There’s still a conversation. It’s important to keep conversations alive. Nobody wants to be silenced and to be told that what they have to say isn’t important. It’s not always easy to deal with conversations: it’s certainly hard to admit you may be wrong and to change your views, or to defend your views from hostile attacks. But that’s the dynamic that needs to lie at the heart of any democracy – listening to each other, learning from each other, striving for better answers and better questions. The conversation must carry on, and those voices most likely to be silenced must be included.

We have to talk honestly and openly about problematic topics – like radicalization, discrimination and violence – without becoming defensive. We must remember that freedom of expression includes the right ‘to offend, shock or disturb’ and that the best remedy for speech we disagree with is a robust counter-argument rather than an attempt to silence your opponent. Silencing the other side of an argument only shows that you lack faith in your own ability to argue your position. This is the spirit in which I – as a Norwegian, a Muslim woman with South Asian heritage, a dark skinned daughter of immigrants – set out to engage honestly with extremists from the far-right and Islamist movements, both of which had viewpoints diametrically opposed to my own. This is the spirit in which the most important art is created: not just to entertain, but to open up a window, to show us something new, to tell us something about ourselves and about humanity.

Art is one of the most foundational expressions of humanity, and can only flourish in an atmosphere that supports human rights, one which is free from fear, violence and repression. To be able to show us the light, artists need to be protected from repression and persecution. The barriers to self-expression must be torn down. Instead, we are seeing more and more barriers being raised. Some of them are obvious such as censorship and harassment, some of them psychological and social, from self-censorship for fear of repercussions and negative attitudes in the community towards those choosing a career in art, a prejudice which particularly impacts women. Financial crises, economic inequality, the increasingly evident impacts of climate change and many other outcomes of neoliberal politics have created a perfect storm for social divisions.

The power of art is never more needed in an atmosphere of armed conflicts, inequality, radicalisation, authoritarianism, populism, extremist movements and other forms of intolerance. This is why we need art: to promote dignity, equality, human rights and peace – to tear down the divisions between us. To let the light shine in.

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Deeyah Khan is an award-winning film director, human rights activist, record producer and former singer and artist. As the founder and director of the production company Fuuse, she is responsible for several documentaries that go straight into the core of the greatest challenges of our time related to social exclusion and outsideness, racism and persecution. She is also the founder and editor of Sister-Hood Magazine, which promotes and gives voice to various women with a Muslim background.

As a 17-year-old, in 1995, she was forced to flee from Norway and settle in London, following persistent pressures, hatred and killings from conservative Muslims in Norway.

In 2016, Khan became UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for artistic freedom and creativity.

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A ONE-WEEK CELEBRATION OF ARTISTIC FREEDOM ALL OVER NORWAY MARCH 2020

January 28, 2020

SafeMUSE together with partners FreemuseNOKU – Norwegian Culture Forum, NTO – Association of Norwegian Theaters and Orchestras and a long list of Norwegian artists associations, arts organizations and institutions are inviting for a celebration of ‘Fri Kunst’, Artistic Freedom 2-8 March 2020 all over Norway.

Artistic freedom is under an increasing pressure, and artists of all disciplines and genres are under threat, being persecuted and censored, prosecuted and imprisoned, harassed and even killed. In Europe this is also a growing problem, with Spain being the country globally imprisoning most musicians – both in 2018 and 2019 (Freemuse: The State of Artistic Freedom).

In Norway artistic freedom has been up to debate recently, with several cased where artists has been met with threats and accusations.

On the basis of this, SafeMUSE has taken the initiative to expand the annual marking of Music Freedom Day 3 March in Norway into a national celebration of Artistic Freedom. We are inviting institutions, event-organizers, clubs, galleries, theaters, orchestras, ensembles, organizations, unions and all others who wants to join for a full week of concerts, exhibitions, performances, shows, seminars and discussions to focus on as many aspects and perspectives to artistic freedom as possible. Either to dedicate the event or concert already planned to Artistic Freedom, or to organize something especially related to this topic during this week.

Through this we will gain a general increased awareness, consciousness and knowledge of the importance of Artistic Freedom. The idea is to coordinate whatever will happen during this week under a joint tag and umbrella, and through coordinated action, raise the awareness.
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GATO's LONG JOURNEY

November 13, 2019

In the spring of 2016 the Guatemalan dancer ‘Gato’, together with the National Sami Theatre institution Beaivvás, received the Norwegian prestigious Hedda Prize for “Particular artistic effort” (Særlig kunstnerisk innsats), as an important performer and ‘supplier of terms’ for the ground-breaking theater production “Vidas Extremas”. They also received the National Critics Award for Best Play of the year.

Now he is back in Norway as the first SafeMUSE residence artist not being a musician, after a long journey.

Break-dancer Carlos David Catun Quintana (‘Gato’) is one of Central America’s foremost dancers, a prize-winning breakdancer from Guatemala, who for the last three years has been staying in Colombia in a safe space sponsored by SafeMUSE, due to death threats from street gangs in Guatemala. After arrival in Norway he is now working with Norway’s best-known professional dance crew, Kingwings Crew, on a production for a festival in early 2020.

A LIFE VERY LITTLE WORTH

Some of SafeMUSE’s followers might have seen our Facebook page for the support of Gato’s case (Før det er for sent – hjelp oss å få Gato til Norge), and through this knows his long and winding road for a secure life as a dancer.

After return home to Guatemala City from Norway in 2016, he received a phone call from someone presenting themselves being from one of the most violent street gangs (Mara Salatrucha – better known as MS 13), saying he was their next on the list. These gangs see the work of dance crews in Guatemala as a competition, because breakdancers are recruiting young potential gang members into the street dance scene instead of them becoming part of criminal gangs. And while Gato was in Norway touring with the ‘Vidas Exstremas’ production, he received the message that one of his close friends and crew members in Guatemala was abducted and killed – by the same gang calling him. So, this was especially difficult since Gato already had nine of his friends being killed by gangs in the past, including his twin brother a few years before. Now he was next on the list.

In the phone conversation Gato was told what streets he tends to hang out in, and what times he had been seen in the various places. Tired and angry about all the suffering the gangs had inflicted on his loved ones, Gato informed the gang that he does not care about them and that he will continue to live his life as before. But in reality, the phone call resulted in Gato closing in for 2 months before leaving for Europe to compete in an internationally recognized event in the Netherlands. A month before departure however, another friend of Gato (also involved in the preparational Vidas Extremas’ workshop process in Guatemala), receives a phone call from someone pretending to be from an elementary school. The lady on the phone says that she has 50 students that she wants to be taught. Gato’s friend is also in Gato’s breakdance crew, ‘502 Poker Crew’, and when he arrives at the agreed location for the workshop, it turns out that no primary school has called, but instead the same criminal gang. The dancer is shot three times, including once in the neck. After a number of operations, he survives the murder attempt. (They specifically asked for Gato to be one of the workshop holders, but since nobody had heard from him in a month the crew didn’t mind asking him.)

When Gato then was in Europe – after all this, friends in Norway got to know about Gato’s situation (- although he hesitated to tell the story), and Nicloai Lopez, producer connected to the Vidas Extremas production, contacted SafeMUSE. In short time we pulled together a six-month residence program for Gato in Norway, and invited him for a safe residency. His visa application was however turned down by the UDI (Norwegian Immigration) on strict formal grounds. This in spite of the regulations opening up for using fair judgement in cases like this. (He applied through the Norwegian Embassy in Berlin where he formally was staying as a tourist, and not from his home country – also having in mind the Norwegian embassy in Guatemala had been closed down half a year earlier.)

BACK TO LATIN AMERICA

Judging the realities around his situation, SafeMUSE sponsored his trip back to Bogota and not Guatemala City. And together with Lopez and the family of dancer Pierro Issa (Colombian dancer based in Norway), we managed to put him up in a safe space in Colombia. This was autumn of 2016. Since then SafeMUSE has covered his stay in relatively secure placements in Colombia, made possible also through fundraising via the Facebook support page. In relatively short time friends in Norway donated almost NOK 100.000 (EUR 10.000)!

Colombia is however a complicated society, and for Gato things turned worse. All the time since his arrival in Colombia it has been a goal to invite Gato back to Norway to work with the Norwegian break-environment and have a possibility to develop his artistic potential. A complaint on the visa refusal in 2016 was turned down. But this year we pulled together a new residence invitation, and his visa application was accepted, and he was given a temporary residence permit. His departure and travel were however to become a nightmare.

AIR CANADA NOT FOR GUATEMALAN DANCERS

Tuesday 15 October Gato had an Air Canada flight from Bogota via Toronto and Heathrow to Oslo. His visa for Norway and Schengen was issued by the UDI 17 September 2019. He was however rejected at check in on the grounds that his transit visa for Canada (eTA) was not stamped into his passport. The eTA is an electronic transit visa linked to the passport number, and should not be stamped in his passport. Even though, he was harshly rejected from the check-in. And the Air Canada personnel at the airport did not either want to speak with us over telephone from Norway, or our contact at the Norwegian embassy in Bogota. He was rejected and was not allowed to travel. (It also goes with the story that Gato is a holder of a US Green Card.)

Due to the feedback we got on our complaints to Air Canada, we chose to buy a new ticket directly into Schengen and Europe with Lufthansa.

FRANKFURT IMMIGRATION FOR PERSISTENT TOUGHS ONLY

His next attempt on departing from Bogota did not either pass without problems, but he managed to get on board his Lufthansa flight via Frankfurt for Oslo on the 23 September. But while in transit during a security check at Frankfurt Airport the day after, he was detained by the Federal Boarder Police for almost four hours for no formal reason. We lost contact with Gato when he was detained shortly before 5 pm. The general information at the airport helped us to call him up at the airport several times with no result. At the same time, we called the police office at the airport, but no one answered. Finally, just after 8, the boarder police called us after being asked several times by Gato to contact the inviting host in Norway. At this point he had been detained for more than three hours. During this time nothing was done from the police to contact us as inviting hosts for clarifying the situation. His onward flight was at that point boarding in 43 minutes.

The police claimed his visa for Norway was not sufficient. He was supposed to have a ‘D-visa’ for Germany. The police officer also claimed his passport would expire shortly after his visit to Norway, and that this was against the visa regulations.

We responded that this is a Guatemalan artist and dancer invited to Norway for a six months artistic residency, and that Norwegian immigration authorities, the UDI, has granted him an appropriate visa/ a temporary residence permit for this purpose. And as long as he is going to Norway and not to Germany, and Norway is a part of the Schengen passport region, a ‘D-visa’ after German law is not relevant.

We also said that his passport is the passport that was used for the visa application and for the given period of his granted stay, and should be valid for this trip. If needed we will assist him to obtain a new passport by Guatemalan authorities while in Norway. 

In addition, we also allowed ourselves to remind the police officer that Germany is a part of the 2005 UNESCO-convention on Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions. Article 16 – ‘Preferential treatment for developing countries’ reads: “Developed countries shall facilitate cultural exchanges with developing countries by granting, through the appropriate institutional and legal frameworks, preferential treatment to artists and other cultural professionals and practitioners, as well as cultural goods and services from developing countries.”

We informed the police that this is an artist that already has been through a lot, that he is threatened for his life in his home country by street gangs, and that he should be treated with respect and not harassed.

After this conversation it was 10 minutes to boarding. Calling back the Boarder Police at the airport again some minutes later we were told that they had got the confirmation needed from Norwegian Immigration and that our guest now was boarding the aircraft for Oslo.

After Gato’s arrival in Oslo, we got his version of what had happened in Frankfurt. His phone, passport and papers were taken from him, and he was not allowed to call his contacts in Norway before after more than 3 hours. The police spoke to him in English and German. Gato speaks Spanish, and he was denied to use Google Translate to try and understand what was going on. He perceived the situation as very threatening and unpleasant, and he was shown what he considered being the police isolation cell. In addition, after our first telephone conversation with the police, Gato tells that the police report that had been written during his detainment was torn apart and thrown away.

FINALLY IN NORWAY

David ‘Gato’ Catun arrived on time at Gardermoen Airport, Oslo Friday 24 September – tired and relieved. The day after the breakdance-environment in Oslo had prepared a welcome party, and already on the Monday he was in preproduction with the Kingwings Crew.

The way the Norwegian break-dance environment in solidarity has supported and assisted their Guatemalan friend and colleague is impressing and exemplary. And of course, without the enduring support and cooperation with producer Nicolai Lopez this would never have been possible to pull through. In addition, also others have given very valuable support throughout the whole process.

A big thanks to everyone!

SafeMUSE has, following this, an unanswered claim towards Air Canada for an unreserved apology for the way Gato was treated by the Air Canada representatives in Bogota, and claim for a full compensation for our financial loss following the need for a new ticket.

In addition, we put forward a claim for an explanation from the Airport Boarder Police at Frankfurt Airport. Their formal response is just a repetition of what was said over the telephone by the officer in charge on the 24 September.

Gato may be seen on stage with the Kingwings Crew opening the Northern Lights Festival (Tromsø) – January 24th 2020

BBOY for LIFE (2012 by NadusFilms) – a documentary on break-dancers in Guatemala City with Gato as one of the main characters.

Vidas Exstremas (2016 by National Sami Theatre institution Beaivvás) – excerpts by Avvir.

Pouya Pour-Amin: An artist’s journey from fear to freedom

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12 November, Album release of “Qaf” by Ghawgha @Nasjonal jazzscene, Oslo

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“Qaf” – New album release from Ghawgha

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“The Common Enemy” by Nikan Khosravi

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Altyn Kapalova – A fearless advocate for feminist & queer art

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21 September, “Dancing Into Fire” – Audiovisual performance @National Opera, Oslo

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