Sweden: Panel debate on freedom and culture
The Swedish Guild of Stage Directors are offering a seminar with guests from Georgia, Hungary and Iran on the subject of the terms and conditions for culture in their countries following the political distress during 2012. Shabnam Tolouie from Iran/France, Davit Gabunia from Georgia, Tobias Biancone, Secretary General ITI from Sweden, and others, will be [...]
Sweden: Lecture on shelter cities for persecuted artists
Playwright Reza Haji Hosseini will give a 45-minutes lecture on shelter cities for persecuted artists and the conditions for dramatic arts in Iran at the Swedish Biennial for Performing Arts on Saturday 25 May 2013 at 1pm in Jönköping. In the early 1990s, a movement among cities in Europe and America was started to shelter [...]
Sweden: Nordic meeting on shelter cities for persecuted artists
On 18 April 2013, a meeting hosted by the Kulturhuset in Stockholm aims at developing long-term partnerships between the Nordic Arts Councils and the Nordic Institutes in Greenland, Faroe Islands and Åland, in order to collectively address issues related to freedom of expression and supporting artists living in exile in the region. Several organisations within [...]
Sweden: Concerts with Jamaican reggae singer Sizzla cancelled
In March 2012, the 35-year-old Jamaican reggae musician Sizzla Kalonji was stopped from performing in Sweden, second time around in the same month, because of his infamous homophobic lyrics. Sizzla was scheduled to perform in Slakthuset in Stockholm on 28 March 2012, but few hours before the concert, Slakthuset’s management announced that they had cancelled [...]
Swedish ‘cake-gate’ about art, racism and freedom of expression
The cake installation ‘Könsstympningstårtan’ – ‘The Circumcision Tart’ – by the artist Makode Aj Linde depicting a naked black woman at the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm sparked outrage and brought tempers to a boil in mid-April 2012. In conjunction with the 75th anniversary celebrations of the Swedish Artists’ National Organisation (Konstnärernas Riksorganisations, KRO) [...]
