Within the framework of IrídiaFest, and in the inaugural session, we will vindicate culture and art as spaces of freedom, responsibility and defense of human rights, focusing on the situation in Iran.
This event will focus on threatened artists and the social, political and cultural framework that welcomes them far from their homes, to reflect on culture not only as a refuge, but as a space for denunciation and shared responsibility.
From the commitment to the defense of artistic freedom, Ivor Stodolsky and Marita Muukkonen, founders of Artists at Risk, dialogue with Anaïs Franquesa, director of Irídia, about how art can sustain lives in contexts of repression and violence, and they claim the links between creation and human rights to generate spaces of collective resistance.
In the second table, the Iranians Mahsa Mohebali, writer, literary critic and screenwriter, and Hossein Zoghi, journalist, theater director and actor, exiled in Catalonia, talk with Agus Morales from 5W about culture as a form of resistance, how to deal with censorship and the need —often urgent— to explain the world despite the consequences it may entail.
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