{"id":59067,"date":"2014-07-18T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T10:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=59067"},"modified":"2017-03-27T11:12:53","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T10:12:53","slug":"july-18-artfreedomwales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=59067","title":{"rendered":"ArtFreedomWales: Wales as a centre for artistic freedom of expression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pNv1J0_jRQY\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Index on Censorship is delighted to announce the first two events in a series of online conversations about artistic freedom of expression in Wales. They form part of our ArtFreedomWales programme looking at how artistic freedom is regarded, supported, debated and promoted across the arts sector, in the press, by the public, by funders and policy makers in the UK.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wales as a centre for artistic freedom of expression \u2013 the opportunities and the obstacles<\/strong>.<br \/>\nOnline conversation with Tim Price &#8211; playwright, Kathryn Gray &#8211; poet and writer, Lisa Jen &#8211; musician\/actor\/writer and Leah Crossley \u2013 artist.<\/p>\n<p>What: ArtFreedomWales<br \/>\nWhen: July 18, 11am (BST)<br \/>\nWhere: <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/events\/cp99952tcdvfm92p54h79e2d694?fd=1\">Take part in the Google Hangout here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Artists working in Welsh &#8211; opportunities and obstacles to expression <\/strong><br \/>\nOnline conversation with Arwel Gruffydd \u2013 Artistic Director Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru, and Bethan Parry Jones \u2013 broadcaster, journalist and writer.<\/p>\n<p>What: ArtFreedomWales<br \/>\nWhen: August 1, 11am (BST)<br \/>\nWhere: <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/events\/cp99952tcdvfm92p54h79e2d694?fd=1\">Take part in the Google Hangout here<\/a><br \/>\nPlease note: this conversation will be in Welsh with an English summary at the end.<\/p>\n<p>These are the first two of four events we are live-streaming over the summer in the lead up to a symposium in Cardiff at Chapter Arts Centre (expected in October) on artistic freedom of expression in Wales. You will be able to email and tweet questions to the panels during the discussion. We want to hear from everyone producing and participating in the arts in Wales who has something to say about freedom of expression. These discussions will inform the agenda for a symposium in Cardiff and each will focus on a different theme that we have identified through our initial research.<\/p>\n<p>What are the issues in Wales? What are the opportunities? What are the obstacles? What has the right to freedom of expression got to do with Wales\u2019 major cultural debates and policies &#8211; bi-lingualism, engaging young people and ethnically diverse voices, tackling poverty, maximising on new cultural infrastructure, having an international voice?<\/p>\n<p>Last year we held a conference in London \u2018Taking the Offensive\u2019 which identified and debated the social, political or legal controls that shape the cultural landscape. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2013\/05\/self-censorship-fear-stifling-uk-artistic-expression\/\">Read the full report here<\/a>.) We held a symposium in Belfast in May exploring these issues in Northern Ireland. (The report is due shortly.)<\/p>\n<p>We want to engage with everyone who is interested in this subject. Welsh translations of all our key messages and information will be provided. Given the limitations of the budget we cannot make this a fully bilingual project, but we will ensure that Welsh speaking artists are involved in all aspects of the programme and translation is available.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_59242\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artswales.org.uk\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-59242\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Arts-Council-Wales-Logo-250.png\" alt=\"Arts Council of Wales supports this programme\" width=\"250\" height=\"141\" class=\"size-full wp-image-59242\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-59242\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arts Council of Wales supports this programme<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first of a series of online conversations &#8212; this one with Tim Price &#8211; playwright, Kathryn Gray &#8211; poet and writer, Lisa Jen &#8211; musician\/actor\/writer and Leah Crossley \u2013 artist &#8212; about artistic expression in Wales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59067"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59067"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87414,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59067\/revisions\/87414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}