[oberlist] EU# cfA/video: The Right to Freedom of Artistic Expression and Creation

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The Working group on Arts Rights and Justice of the EU Access to Culture
Civil Society Platform wishes to underline the importance of the *UN
special report* *“The Right to Freedom of Artistic Expression and
Creation”* during
a meeting with members of the European Parliament (Human Rights, Culture
and other Parliamentary Committees) as well as diverse representatives of
the European Commission. This meeting is scheduled to take place early
October 2013 in Brussels. The issues dealt with in the report are
censorship (political and religious), safe havens for refugees and at risk
artists, access to artistic expression for all minorities, freedom of
movement, assembly, use of public space...

During the meeting we would like to offer artists the opportunity to make
their voice heard particularly those who are confronted with one or more of
these issues in their day-to-day practice, and/or living and working under
conditions of restriction or risk.

You can make your voice heard by sending us a *two minutes video* that
explains your personal situation, or the situation in your country or
region.

Your first audience will be the above-mentioned politicians and
representatives of the EU Commission.
We may contact you to ask your permission to diffuse your statement through
other channels, but we will never do so without your explicit consent.

*Video guidelines*
-       No more than 2 minutes in length.
-       If you feel safe to do so, please tell your name, otherwise use a
nickname.
-       Tell us from which country/region you are, again if you feel safe
to do so.
-       Give a clear statement about the situation in your country/region
or your personal experience with the issue of freedom of expression.
-       You can choose to take a close up of a talking head, to visualise
your statement in drawings, cartoons, an artwork … or to make a two minutes
docu.
-       Be sure of good audio quality and a clearly spoken or written
message.
-       Give your statement in English or take care of subtitles in English.
-       Be sure of good image quality and that the format is ready for
screening (in the sense that it doesn't need to be edited). We would like
to make a selection of the videos and screen them one after the other.
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*Send your video* via www.wetransfer.com to an exclusive email account that
the European Academy of Yuste Foundation (European Access to Culture
Platform Member) has opened for this: video at fundacionyuste.org. *Please
send it by 9th September 2013. *Videos will be kept in this server for
privacy. *The procedure is quite easy*.

*To submit your video* you just have to go to www.wetransfer.com.  In the
menu that appears to the left add the file to be sent, the email where it
has to be sent: video at fundacionyuste.org. Add also your own email address
and a short message. This message should include
1) the title 'Video for presentation of "The Right to Freedom of Artistic
Expression and Creation" UN Report',
2) the name of the organization and person sending it,
3) contact details
4) any other relevant information.

You can submit your video in a variety of formats as it allows to send up
to 2Gb (NB: 2Gb is really for a high definition movie, so for a 2 minutes
video you just need a few Mbs). We can receive and screen different formats
(".avi", ".mp4", ".wma", ".mpeg1" to be screened through a beemer or for
the web ".flv").

Thank-you and best regards,

Angie Cotte
Secretary General
Fonds Roberto Cimetta
c/o ONDA, 13bis rue Henri Monnier
F – 75009 PARIS
Tél : 00 33 1 45 26 33 74
Fax : 00 33 1 48 74 16 03
E-mail : info at cimettafund.org
Skype : cimettafund
www.cimettafund.org

sursa: roberto cimetta fund

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