Events

We invite you to join the conversation about the state of art, its challenges and how we can all improve the right to freedom of artistic expression.

Do you consider that artists should be able to express themselves freely? Then, Music Freedom Day is made for you!

On 8 March 2020 Freemuse participated in the International Women’s Day celebration at the Mama Cash Feminist Festival.

Freemuse will attend a conference in Zurich focusing on discussion about the risks for artists and art.

Freemuse will attend the annual Safe Havens conference to discuss Creative Women at Risk in terms of global threats.

Freemuse has partnered with Roskilde Festival 2019 to bring our mission to the public - we’re giving away tickets to Roskilde Festival 2020.

Freemuse attended a workshop organised by the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC). The workshop was a part of the Civil Society Days 2019.

During the At Home Everywhere conference, Freemuse Executive Director Dr Srirak Plipat will speak about freedom of artistic expression in Europe.

On 23-24 May 2019, Freemuse Executive Director Dr. Srirak Plipat will speak at two events in Bratislava including Freedom Festival.

Sweden - 15 May 2019: Freemuse Executive Director Dr. Srirak Plipat spoke at the Swedish Performing Arts Biennial 2019.

Freemuse will be a discussion activator in the debate on European Values and Identities during Culture Action Europe’s Live Online Dialogue.

Freemuse is launching its The State of Artistic Freedom 2019 report on 26 March in Oslo, Norway and online.

On 26 January 2019, Srirak was at the International Film Festival Rotterdam for the IFFR PRO debate Call to Action: Support for Filmmakers at Risk a [...]

Music Freedom Day is an annual, global celebration of the human right to musical expression, with artists and organisations uniting to support musicia [...]

  Srirak spoke on behalf of civil society organisations to the 12th Intergovernmental Committee of the 2005 Convention for the Protection and Pr [...]

  On 4 December 2018, Freemuse attended The Council of Religious and Life Stance Communities in Norway (STL) annual conference in Oslo, Norway. U [...]

In collaboration with Yildiz Akdogan MP and KVINFO, Freemuse launched its new report on women and artistic freedom: Creativity Wronged: How women’s [...]

The Safe Havens 2018 conference, from 5-7 December in Malmö, Sweden, brought together artists, lawyers, activists, arts councils, culture department [...]

  On Friday 16 November 2018, Freemuse Executive Director Dr Srirak Plipat hosted an open discussion at the Society for Ethnomusicology’s [...]

Freemuse launched its The State of Artistic Freedom 2018 report that examines 553 cases of artistic freedom violations in 78 countries.

Freemuse and SafeMuse will host an event at WOMEX, the World Music Expo, focusing on the artist's role as a change-maker in a harsh world.

The Fundamental Rights Forum will bring together leading European and global agents for change from diverse walks of life, including high-level repr [...]

Freemuse and Culture Action Europe brought together policy and decision makers and representatives from the arts community for a conference on freedo [...]

  Freemuse Executive Director Srirak Plipat took part in a panel during the 8th edition of the European Forum on Music held in Oslo, Norway on [...]

Freemuse Executive Director Srirak Plipat took part in a panel at RightsCon 2018 held in Toronto, Canada on 16-18 May 2018. On 17 May, Plipat took par [...]

The first World Conference on Artistic Freedom of Expression, ‘All That is Banned is Desired’ took place in the Oslo Opera House in Norway 25-26 O [...]

How to revive and reconstruct the Afghan musical scene that has been shattered for almost a decade? This was one of the burning issues at the recent 2 [...]

The 1st Freemuse World Conference on Music and Censorship was held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in November 1998. Among the participants were musicians, re [...]