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With a powerful voice that sings, speaks, and screams, and a style that defies genre, Vietnamese pop star-turned protest singer Mai Khoi performs her storytelling song cycle "Bad Activist." In this performance, she tells her story about blazing trails as an artist-activist living under an...
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Ramy Essam performs in “Tahrir and Beyond,” featuring special guests Ganzeer and The Lazour Brothers, writers of “We Live in Cairo.” This performance is co-presented by National Sawdust, Artistic Freedom Initiative, and the #WeAre Foundation. Featured in Rolling Stone, the New York Times, NPR,...
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بدأ King Raam مسيرته الموسيقية كمغني وكاتب أغاني ومؤسس فرقة Hypernova، وهي فرقة بوست بانك نشأت في أوائل العقد الأول من القرن الحادي والعشرين في طهران. وبصفته مغنيًا ناشطًا سياسيًا، انضم إلى الاحتجاجات وكتب أغاني تنتقد الحكومة. في عام 2011، أطلق King Raam مسيرته الفردية...
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بدأ King Raam مسيرته الموسيقية كمغني وكاتب أغاني ومؤسس فرقة Hypernova، وهي فرقة بوست بانك نشأت في أوائل العقد الأول من القرن الحادي والعشرين في طهران. وبصفته مغنيًا ناشطًا سياسيًا، انضم إلى الاحتجاجات وكتب أغاني تنتقد الحكومة. في عام 2011، أطلق King Raam مسيرته الفردية...
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Toto Kisaku is an award-winning Congolese playwright, actor, director and producer. Detained for putting on plays critical of the Congolese government, Toto arrived in the United States in late 2015 seeking political asylum, which he was granted in March of 2018. His one-man play, Requiem For An...
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With her incendiary voice, Noura Mint Seymali is one of Mauritania’s foremost musical emissaries. Born into a line of Moorish griot (traditional West African storytellers, praise singers, poets and musicians), Noura is revolutionary in a number of intentional and consequential ways. She and her...
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With four consecutive evenings of incendiary performances, RADICAL RECITATIONS is not only a celebration of freedom of artistic expression, it is a testament to the radical power of storytelling to catalyze social change and a call to action in defense of artistic freedom. RADICAL RECITATIONS...
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Artistic Freedom Initiative, the Arab-American Institute and the American-Arab Anti Discrimination Committee are partnering to bring Emel Mathlouthi back to Washington DC, this time on the Lincoln Theatre stage! This performance is part of Emel’s "Everywhere We Looked Was Burning" Fall 2019 Tour,...
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Presented by the New York City Artist Safe Haven Residency Coalition in partnership with Goethe-Institut New York, this panel discussion celebrates the launch and publication of a new user guide titled Artist Safety Hosting: A Guide to History, Ethics & Practice. Co-written by Artistic Freedom...
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Presented in collaboration with the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, AFI brings the legendary, Baghdad-based Hamid Al-Saadi, the world’s foremost living performer of the Iraqi Maqam, to the Atrium stage on March 28th. Al-Saadi will be joined by Safaafir, the only U.S.-based ensemble...
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As censorship rises and artists are targeted for speaking truth to power, protecting creative voices has never been more urgent. Since 2017, AFI has supported over 2,000 courageous artists who continue making art even when it places them at risk. Your contribution ensures artists can keep creating, sharing, and inspiring change—protecting both their voices and the right to artistic freedom worldwide.