CROSSFIRE – Photographs by Shahidul Alam @ QMA – Sunday, April 15

Forum & Opening Reception for Partnership Gallery Exhibition in Collaboration with Drik Picture Library, Dhaka. Bangladeshi photographer and human rights activist Shahidul Alam’s Crossfire exhibition will open in the Partnership Gallery at the Queens Museum of Art on 15th April, 2012 and run until May 6th, 2012. The exhibition aims to gather international support for a campaign […]

fD @ Artsfex – Copenhagen Summit on Artistic Freedom of Expression, 9-11 December

fD joins the Artsfex summit in Copenhagen on 9-11 December 2011 along with several prominent national and international artists’ networks, and freedom of expression organisations. The summit is organised by Freemuse and Danish PEN, and funded by the Danish Ministry of Culture. Participants will present http://www.raybani.com/ recent examples of censorship of the arts, and discuss the […]

fD participates in VI. Festival Against Censorship – November 7-11

fD program coordinator Sidd Joag joins a roundtable discussion at the VI. Festival Against Censorship in Bilbao, Spain. Now in its 6th year, the Festival is organized by the Basque production company Serrano in collaboration with FREEMUSE and in 2010 honored fD with its annual No Censorship award. Highlights of this year’s Festival program include […]

‘Cultures of Resistance’ – Artists on Art and Activism

fD program coordinator and visual artist Sidd Joag joins a panel with poet Suheir Hammad, filmmaker Iara Lee and Paul D. Miller a.k.a D.J. Spooky, to explore the role of the artist in a global society, including that of the diasporic artist. The panel will be moderated by http://www.raybandasoleit.com/ NYU Tisch School of the Arts’ […]

Estonia & NYC: Sharing the Model of Critical Hosting

From April 14-17, freeDimensional’s program coordinator Sidd Joag was invited to present Art Spaces Hosting Activism and Strengthening Community Engagement at the Trans Europe Halles Meeting 71, titled ‘Shifting Gears’ in Tartu, Estonia. The meeting brought together representatives from nearly fifty of Europe’s leading independent cultural institutions and was an exciting opportunity for fD to […]

LIMA, PERU: Presentation of Spanish-language guide for Art Spaces Hosting Activism

From March 22-27, 2011, freeDimensional director, Todd Lester was invited to present the publication Art Spaces Hosting Activism & Strengthening Community Engagement – a Tactical Notebook made in collaboration with New Tactics in Human Rights – at two venues in Lima, Peru. This was the second meeting of Residencias en Red [iberoamérica]. R_en_R [i] was […]

March 2nd Conference Call on Democracy Movements in Egypt, the Middle East & North Africa

The Arts & Democracy Project (with moderators Andrea Assaf and fD founder Todd Lester) invites you to join a nation-wide conference call discussing the role of arts and culture in the extraordinary people’s movements in Egypt and Libya and the protests for democracy sweeping across North Africa and the Middle East. Gain insights on Arab […]

‘Men & Women’ by Umida Akhmedova screens in NYC

You may remember early this year when an Uzbek court found, Umida Akhmedova, a documentary director guilty of slander for making a film on the difficulties faced by newly married women in the authoritarian Central Asian state. Umida Akhmedova was convicted of “offence through mass media” by the court in the capital Tashkent after government experts found her […]

Amplifying Critical Voices

freeDimensional director, Todd Lester, gives keynote talk at the International Network for Contemporary Performing Arts (IETM) meeting in Glasgow, Scotland (4-7 Nov 2010). IETM is invited to come together in Glasgow this Autumn, to explore our many possible futures together under the working theme of VOICES. See his hand-drawn slides here!

fD receives award @ Festival Against Censorship in Bilbao

fD received the annual No Censorship award at the 5th Festival Against Censorship in Bilbao, Spain. fD and the Creative Resistance Fund work with the Festival Against Censorship to make travel grants and provide local accommodation each year for artists in danger due to their use of creativity to fight injustice. Last year this emergency […]

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