{"id":61550,"date":"2014-11-06T18:05:09","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T18:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=61550"},"modified":"2017-03-23T17:13:44","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T17:13:44","slug":"13-nov-artist-censor-bush-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=61550","title":{"rendered":"13 Nov: Is it ever better to censor than to cause offence?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_60309\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60309\" class=\"wp-image-60309\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/exhibitb-barbican.jpg\" alt=\"Exhibit B (Photo: \u00a9 Sofie Knijff \/ Barbican)\" width=\"700\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/exhibitb-barbican.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/exhibitb-barbican-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/exhibitb-barbican-250x155.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/exhibitb-barbican-322x200.jpg 322w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-60309\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Exhibit B (Photo: \u00a9 Sofie Knijff \/ Barbican)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Exhibit B, The City, the Tricycle Theatre\u2026 Several high profile cases this past summer have ignited a debate about artistic censorship in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Join us as part of RADAR Festival at the Bush Theatre in London to explore the rights of the artist to free expression, to examine the role of arts institutions in defending and promoting free expression, and to ask the question: is it ever better to censor than to cause offence? The event features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Zita Holbourne (artist, activist, co-organiser <a href=\"http:\/\/boycotthumanzoouk.com\/\">Boycott the Human Zoo Campaign<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2014\/sep\/27\/is-art-installation-exhibit-b-racist\">Stella Odunlami<\/a>\u00a0(artist, cast member Exhibit B)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.warwickartscentre.co.uk\/news\/2014\/05\/in-praise-of-chris-thorpe-by-simon-stephens\/\">Chris Thorpe<\/a>\u00a0(writer, performer including\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinaplatetheatre.com\/confirmation\">Confirmation<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Mekella Broomberg (Head of Arts and Culture, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jw3.org.uk\/\">JW3<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Madani Younis (Artistic Director, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bushtheatre.co.uk\/\">Bush Theatre<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Jodie Ginsberg (CEO, Index on Censorship)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>WHERE:<\/strong>\u00a0Bush Theatre,\u00a0London,\u00a0W12 8LJ<br \/>\n<strong>WHEN:<\/strong>\u00a0Thursday 13\u00a0November 2014, debate 9.00-10.00pm (following show 7.30-8.30pm)<br \/>\n<strong>TICKETS:<\/strong> \u00a310 (early bird, including show)\u00a0at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bushtheatre.co.uk\">www.bushtheatre.co.uk<\/a>\u00a0or 0208 743 5050 (box office)<\/p>\n<p>Follow the discussion via the hashtag #RADAR2014<\/p>\n<p>Co-produced by Index on Censorship and the Bush Theatre as part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bushtheatre.co.uk\/festival\/radar\/\">the RADAR Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join Index as part of RADAR Festival at the Bush Theatre in London to explore the rights of the artist to free expression<\/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":[7,581],"tags":[3669,816,6795,6709,7383,1856,6623],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61550"}],"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=61550"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87176,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61550\/revisions\/87176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}