16.12.2024
Nationwide debate on censorship in Malta
In 2015, Malta sparked a nationwide debate on censorship following the obscenity trial of novelist Alex Vella Gera and publisher Mark Camilleri.
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13.11.2024
FIVE by Cécile Wajsbrot
The European Alliance of Academies starts a series of contributions dealing with the topic of artistic freedom in different European countries. A kaleidoscope on the state of democracy.
13.09.2024
The Price of Freedom
Join us for a multifaceted evening of performances, readings, music, film and critical discussions about the freedom of art in Hungary!
6.09.2024
Next Café Climate on Climate (In)justice
The Café Climate aims to engage in a dialogue at equal level with civil society, experts and political actors on the topics of climate, energy, democracy, arts and culture. In an informal atmosphere, at small tables, like in a café.
13.08.2024
Atlas of Change is launched
The Atlas is a subjective documentation for climatic changes already happening, as well as for effective solutions. A subjective and artistic evolutive map of Europe with texts, photos, videos, each time linked with a specific place, to awake more and more awareness about the climate issue.
13.05.2024
Expression of Solidarity with Artists and Cultural professionals in Slovakia
The European Alliance of Academies expresses solidarity with artists and cultural professionals in Slovakia affected by new cultural policies.
2.05.2024
Multimedia Atlas of Invisible Borders is launched
23 selected videos from 12 European countries offer a unique perspective on invisible borders
15.04.2024
Review: The Climate We Live In. An Alliance Against the Far Right
Impressions and results from the last conference that took place 25-26 March 2024 at Akademie der Künste in Berlin.
27.03.2024
Vote for a democratic Europe!
The European Alliance of Academies calls to vote in the European Elections 2024!
31.01.2024
New Artworks published on LOOM – Interweaving the Arts in Europe
The nine selected artists engaged with the poems of Szépírók Társasága members and created multidisciplinary artworks that reflect on the social and political reality of today’s life in Hungary.
13.11.2023
Support independent Hungarian Literature
Subscribe for the future of independent contemporary Hungarian literature and support the crowdfunding campaign of the Society of Hungarian Authors!
20.10.2023
Berlin: Next Café Climate on Energy
The Café Climate aims to engage in a dialogue at equal level with civil society, experts and political actors on the topics of climate, energy, democracy, arts and culture. In an informal atmosphere, at small tables, like in a café.
21.09.2023
European Alliance of Academies stands in solidarity with Agnieszka Holland in her right to artistic freedom
TheEuropean Alliance of Academies, a network of over 60 academies from around Europe, has expressed its support of Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland who is facing personal hostility from the Polish Minister of Justice, Mr Zbigniew Ziobro, for her film Zielona Granica (The Green Border).
6.09.2023
Review: Discussion on Freedom of Expression with young Britons at Cambridge
Censorship has many forms. European Alliance authors discussed the freedom of artistic expression in literature with UK students at Cambridge on 26 and 27 August.
1.09.2023
Review: Rights and Freedom of Culture in Times of Political Change
Members of the European Alliance of Academies were alarmed by the situation of Polish cultural workers. In personal conversations with prominent representatives of independent museums, theatres and cultural institutions, it became clear how the Polish government is promoting the re-nationalisation of art and culture and is increasingly influencing artistic decisions.
28.08.2023
Climate Café
How do we experience the climate crisis? And how can society be successfully transformed? We have had over 30 years to take careful steps to address the urgent task of transforming society. Nothing has happened – despite us knowing better!
7.07.2023
Atlas of Change: Climate Group launches Open Call
The Climate Group of the European Alliance of Academies presents their activities: Atlas of Change and Café Climate
3.07.2023
The Silent Way towards Totalitarianism
On behalf of the European Alliance of Academies, author Cécile Wajsbrot summarises the concerns of Alliance members about the situation for art and culture in Hungary.
7.06.2023
Madrid Book Fair: Freedom of Artistic Creation in Europe
Members of the European Alliance of Academies discuss the freedom of artistic expression and creation in Europe.
6.06.2023
European Alliance of Academies Demands Artistic Freedom in Hungary and Europe
On 30‒31 May 2023, the European Alliance of Academies held a conference of solidarity with the Society of Hungarian Authors Szépírók Társasága in Budapest.
5.04.2023
AoA Impro Group live at Pariser Platz
The group, which came together in 2020 to mark the founding of the European Alliance of Academies, is receiving rave reviews for its newly released CD „Live at Pariser Platz“
21.03.2023
Leipzig Book Fair: Forum Open Society
Within the programme of the Leipzig Book Fair, selected members of the European Alliance of Academies will address the question of what alliances of cultural institutions can do to counter the threats to democracy.
24.02.2023
Support Offers for Artists and Cultural Actors in Ukraine
The Russian war of aggression on Ukraine has already been going on for a year – the members of the European Alliance of Academies have compiled offers of help from their respective institutions.
24.01.2023
Support Szépírók Társasága
Subscribe for the future of independent contemporary Hungarian literature and support the crowdfunding campaign of the Society of Hungarian Authors
12.01.2023
The Freedom of Art in Times of War and Crisis
From 15-16 December 2022, 42 members from 19 countries of the European Alliance of Academies met at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin to discuss restrictions on artistic freedom in the face of war and crisis.
18.11.2022
OUT NOW! Journal der Künste #19
The current issue of the Journal der Künste #19 gathers important topics and key actors of the European Alliance of Academies. The focus lays on the recently published platform LOOM Interweaving the Arts in Europe – a digital space for artistic collaboration of the alliance members and in which artists’ positions are juxtaposed with current political challenges.
10.10.2022
Presentation of Ignorance is Strength? Artistic Expression and Biopower in the Post/Pandemic Age in Zagreb (Croatia)
A project presentation of „Ignorance is Strength? Artistic Expression and Biopower in the Post/Pandemic Age“ took place in Zagreb, Croatia.
10.10.2022
The European Alliance of Academies launches digital artistic platform
#LOOM Interweaving the Arts in Europe is a digital platform for transnational projects and artistic cooperation among the institutions and artists of the network, providing possible answers to current social and cultural questions.
20.09.2022
The National Academy of Arts of Ukraine joins the European Alliance of Academies
We are pleased to welcome the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine as the newest member of the European Alliance of Academies.
19.08.2022
DECLARATION OF THE BOARD OF THE SZÉCHENYI ACADEMY OF LETTERS AND ARTS
The Széchenyi Academy of Lettres and Arts condemns the views of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in his speech on July 23, 2022.
3.06.2022
28-29 June: Contested Histories, Shared Futures
To be able to think about the future, one must know the past, so the conventional wisdom goes. Narratives about the past, however, have become increasingly controversial.
7.03.2022
The European Alliance of Academies condemns the war against Ukraine
The unthinkable has happened: War in Europe. This war polarizes. In particular with regard to the question of how to deal with Russian and Belarusian artists who publicly position themselves against the war. Despite this neuralgic point, the European Alliance of Academies has agreed by a large majority on the following statement:
16.12.2021
YOU DON’T! HAVE TO ENDURE IT
A students initiative at DAMU and YAMU in Czech Rebuplic gives public voice to campus testemonies in order to uncover outdated structures and misrouted distribution of power.The European Alliance of academies strongly supports the initiative.
6.12.2021
The Power of Art
The second conference of the European Alliance of Academies (2 — 3 December 2021) focused on artistic cooperation – and how it can be used for a European understanding of art and culture.
4.11.2021
Battle with the empty sky
Latest event of the Alliance of Academie in Hungary. The European Alliance of Academies launched a series of events on the freedom of the arts in Budapest with a public discussion and workshops involving authors from all over Europe and in close cooperation with Society of Hungarian Authors.
19.10.2021
Support #freeszfe
After the students and teachers of University of Theatre and Film Arts, Budapest (SZFE) occupied their university building for 71 days in autumn 2020 to fight for the freedom and independence of the university, the Freeszfe Society, an independent creative, educational and cultural space, was founded in February this year.
29.09.2021
Call for Projects
The European Alliance of Academies launches this call for projects on the topic of biopolitics, exploring the relation between governments and their citizens, especially in the context of the (post)pandemic crisis.
23.09.2021
Overcoming Differencies and Celebrating Togetherness
Over summer break, the work of the European Alliance of Acadamies continued: Important topics and interviews with key actors of the Alliance are part of the current issue of the Journal der Künste #16.
8.09.2021
The scissors in the head
The freedom of the arts is established in Article 13 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights – and yet the Hungarian government is able to gradually and lawfully erode the autonomy of cultural institutions and art academies.
19.07.2021
Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for journalism promotes fundamental values of the European Union
The Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism aims to reward outstanding and informed journalistic work on issues that promote and defend the fundamental values of the European Union. This year’s applications are open until 1 September 2021.
13.06.2021
22ND POESIEFESTIVAL BERLIN: THERE LIES EUROPE
Under the heading There lies Europe, the 22nd poesiefestival berlin from 11 to 17 June 2021 is investigating the poetry of Europe in all its diversity of forms and languages, and in spite of the pandemic is building poetic bridges across the continent
17.05.2021
Madrid: Innovation meetings in the Arts and Humanities on 20 May
The Círculo de Bellas Artes’ R+D+C Forum aims to become a meeting point between research in the Arts and Humanities and different economic and social agents,
19.04.2021
Artistic Freedom in Europe: Mission (in)complete!?
The European Alliance of Academies celebrates Europe Day by reminding the importance of artistic freedom in Europe.
9.04.2021
Summit on European Cultural Politics and New Digital Solutions
What kind of policies are needed to support the European arts and culture scene? How can new digital spaces empower cultural actors across Europe?
17.03.2021
EAoA Members meet for vivd exchange
How can artistic cooperation take place in the digital space? What legal and political possibilities are there to protect the freedom of art in Europe?
1.03.2021
Talking about our European future
What should the future of Europe look like? What do we wish to achieve together? What do we want to change when it comes to the European Union its institutions, regulations, and its inner and outer workings?
22.02.2021
Launch of the Report on the State of Artistic Freedom 2021
At the Re:Writing the Future Festival, the State of Artistic Freedom 2021 report is launched by the non-governmental organization Freemuse.
18.02.2021
The European Alliance of Academies warns against restricting academic freedom in Europe
The members of the European Alliance of Academies are in solidarity with Prof. Jan Grabowski, Professor of History at the University of Ottawa, and Prof. Barbara Engelking, founder and director of the Polish Center for Holocaust Research in Warsaw
15.02.2021
Hungary: Appropriation of Universities
The Hungarian Network of Academics’ (OHA) issued the following declaration of protest against the appropriation of Hungarian universities: The Orbán regime has changed gears in the process of seizing control of universities over the last few days: as if under martial law, five state universities have been rushed into a procedure to transform them into foundations, stripping them of all their remaining autonomy.
8.02.2021
Best moments of founding conference 2020
What is the “European Alliance of Academies”? What does it advocate? And who is involved? In this wonderful compilation, we address these questions and highlights of the founding conference in October 2020.
4.01.2021
Support Message for the Belarusian State Academy of Arts
In view of the persecutions of students and teachers of the Belarusian State Academy of Arts, the European Alliance of Academies fully supports the statement of Prof. Jan Hančil, Rector of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.
4.12.2020
Society of Hungarian Authors „Hungary: beyond all hope“
A speech that equates the rule of law with gas chambers, solidarity with the deprivation of rights, and the European Union with Hitler’s Third Reich, erases the language itself.
3.12.2020
Solidarity with SZFE University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest
Many partner institutions of the European Alliance of Academies have expressed their solidarity with the SZFE University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest, Hungary. They are extremely concerned about the measures taken by Hungarian policymakers which are hindering the free development of the arts and artistic expression.
27.11.2020
Hungary: Report on dismanteling culture, media and education
The report ’Hungary Turns its Back on Europe. Dismantling Culture, Education, Science and the Media in Hungary 2010–2019’ informs the Hungarian and international public as well as European institutions about the severe harm that the Orbán regime has caused in the fields of education, science, culture, and the media since 2010.
24.11.2020
Madrid: Debate on the freedom of artistic expression
From 24-25 November, our alliance partner, Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid, proposes a debate on the freedom of artistic expression and creation.
12.11.2020
Prof. Christoph Markschies highlights importance of alliances
Due to its special history, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities knows how precious and often hard-won freedom for art and science is.
9.10.2020
Conference Opening Address by Jeanine Meerapfel
On 8 October 2020, the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, opened the conference on the foundation of an alliance of European academies committed to the freedom of artistic expression. Read the opening address by filmmaker and Akademie President Jeanine Meerapfel here.
5.10.2020
Supportive Words by Krzysztof Polkowski
Art and Science are the best forms of communication between individuals, communities and nations. Art and Science know no boundaries and no limitations. To develop, we must act in friendly conditions, in the atmosphere of trust and complete freedom. We should jointly and severally strengthen it for the sake of our countries and the sake of Europe.
16.09.2020
Jean Anguera supports the Alliance
A person exists through his capacity for expression. His expression determines his identity. The artists of a country realize the identity of that country. So, France means Victor Hugo and Victor Hugo means France.
7.09.2020
More than 60 institutions involved in the alliance
The institutions that committed to the alliance come from almost every country of the European Union – a strong signal that the need for this solidarity-based cooperation is high. The partner institutions include reknown art academies, national actors of cultural politics but also smaller cultural institutions.
6.09.2020
Conference Programme
At the public opening on October 8, Academy President Jeanine Meerapfel will give a welcoming speech and authors Robert Menasse and A.L. Kennedy will present their vision for Europe. Political Scientist Basil Kerski will talk about how Europe’s future is being shaped in Central and Eastern Europe. The evening will be accompanied by a music Performance of the AoA Impro-Group with Floros Floridis and others.
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