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The Dream City is Tunis – part 1: The Maps of Dignity

19 October 2023 0Comments 0Reactions

by Juliette Remond-Tiedrez The Dream City festival is a Tunisian art festival that takes place every two years since 2007. All the events are somehow politically engaged as the festival “addresses and deals with the social and political realities of Tunis in a fragile global context”, including among others migration, democracy, human rights,…

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Memory of a silenced community: Fighting Anti-Roma Attitudes through Art

9 December 2021 0Comments 0Reactions

by Alicia Cotillas December 9 is World Genocide Prevention Day, marking the anniversary of the UN Genocide Convention, which was adopted on this day in 1948 after the horrors of the Holocaust. Today, we remember the victims of genocide and the commitment to prevent future atrocities. Today we also to bring attention to what the…

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REMEMBRANCE AND HOPE FOR SYRIA

30 October 2021 0Comments 0Reactions

by Juliette Remond-Tiedrez I mainly wanted to go the Institut du monde arabe (IMA - Arab world institute) last Monday to see Amal. Amal, which means hope in Arabic and is a female name, is the 3.5 meter puppet representing the millions of Syrian children having had to flee Syria and migrate to Europe.…

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Movies That Matter 2021 – Online

14 April 2021 0Comments 0Reactions

By Fiana Gantheret, Director On Friday 16 April will start the 2021 edition of the Movies That Matter festival. This Hague-based international movies festival offers the audience around 70 films in six competitions programmes. The mission of the festival is to "open eyes for human rights", through "screening of human rights related films and the…

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Music as a Healing Tool for the Yazidi Genocide Victims

25 January 2021 0Comments 0Reactions

By Juliette Remond-Tiedrez In their Acting Together on the World Stage documentary, Theatre Without Borders and Brandeis University argued that art could be used as a way to resist oppression, to reconcile, to raise awareness about human rights violations but also as a way to heal and to reconstruct oneself. Since I’ve watched the documentary,…

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Story of a poet telling his fight against the Al Assad regime

11 July 2020 0Comments 0Reactions

By Juliette Rémond-Tiédrez Being confined for nearly two months gave me loads of time to listen to podcasts and read more. Somewhat by coincidence my reading and listening started focusing on the ongoing Syrian civil war. This focus on Syria started with Omar Youssef Suleiman’s latest book Le Dernier Syrien, the Last Syrian. Omar Youssef Suleiman…

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Artistic and legal objects: Abu Zubaydah’s drawings depicting detention at Guantanamo

29 April 2020 0Comments 0Reactions

By Juliette Remond-Tiedrez Warning: this post contains sensitive drawings which some people may find disturbing. What is art? Is Abu Zubaydah’s drawings of the torture methods used against him “art”? As explained in an article published in the newspaper The New York Times on December 4, 2019, Abu Zubaydah is a Saudi national who was arrested in Pakistan…

Unsung Heroes

Blog 15 November 2019 0Comments 0Reactions

By Juliette Remond-Tiedrez Since the beginning of October, the small Galerie Jospeh in the centre of Paris has been holding the exhibition Unsung heroes created by photographer Denis Rouvre and the NGO Médecins du monde, Doctors of the World. The exhibition gathers more than 60 portraits of women from all around the world. As an international law…

The Ship of Tolerance

Blog 22 September 2019 0Comments 0Reactions

By Juliette Remond-Tiedrez, In the middle of London, in between the Tate Modern museum and Saint Paul’s cathedral stands, or rather floats, the Ship of Tolerance, 14th edition. Picture taken by Alexander Royall The Ship of Tolerance is a patchwork of paintings made by schoolchildren with different ethnic and social backgrounds. In the case of the Londoner ship, the…

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Picasso and the War

23 July 2019 0Comments 0Reactions

By Juliette Remond-Tiedrez When I think of Picasso, I think of weird shaped and coloured women. Of course, I think of Guernica too but that only comes later, and little did I know of the artist’s actual political commitment. Therefore, when answering the Musée de l’Armée’s survey, I check the box “totally agree” to the question…

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Children’s Drawings of the Genocide Against the Tutsi

14 May 2019 0Comments 0Reactions

By Juliette Remond-Tiedrez Warning: this post contains sensitive photographs which some people may find disturbing. The Shoah Memorial in Paris is hosting, from the 4th of April to the 17th of November, a commemorative exhibition of the genocide against the Tutsi, 25 years after it happened (as a small reminder, from April to mid-July 1994, almost…

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Black Memories: A Choreographic Performance Provoking Discourse on Race

12 April 2019 0Comments 0Reactions

By Ame Trandem At a time when white nationalism and xenophobia is on the rise in the Netherlands, the modern dance performance Black Memories by Aya, Tafel van Vijf and Backbone provokes a timely discourse on race and racism. This multimedia performance, which was presented at the Korzo Theate in Den Haag on 4 April,…

Acting Together on the World Stage (the documentary and toolkit) – Review

Blog 15 March 2019 0Comments 0Reactions

By Juliette Remond-Tiedrez In 2011, Theatre Without Borders and Brandeis university’s programme in Peacebuilding and the Arts created an Acting Together on the World Stage: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict documentary and toolkit. Combined with a two-volume anthology (which will not be reviewed here), the documentary and the toolkit form part of a project…

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Threat of an erosion of Second World War Era Restitution Principles

9 March 2019 0Comments 0Reactions

By Nolwenn Guibert On 3 December 1998, 44 governments participating in the Washington Conference on Holocaust-Era Assets endorsed what came to be known as the “Washington Principles” for dealing with artwork confiscated by the Nazi Regime during the Second World War. The Washington Principles establish, inter alia, that in assessing whether a work of art has…

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Everyone can be a Pussy Riot (Art and Resistance – Chapter 1)

22 February 2019 0Comments 0Reactions

By Manon Beury “I cannot attend the Pussy Riot’s performance tonight. Do you want my ticket?” It is a beautiful gift that Fiana, founder of Creating Rights, offered me this Thursday morning. On January 31st, 2019, we waited for the show to start at 20:30 at Paard in The Hague. I didn’t know what to expect…

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“Who killed my brother?” The story of Luciano Arruga

6 February 2019 0Comments 0Reactions

By Njomza Miftari “Enforced disappearances” is a phrase that is not frequently mentioned in the European human rights context, however, this is not the case in regions such as Latin America where enforced disappearances has dreadfully impacted thousands of families in the last decades. “Who killed my brother?”, is a documentary directed by Ana Fraile and…

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Women are heroes by JR

23 January 2019 0Comments 0Reactions

By Juliette Remond-Tiedrez I went to JR’s exposition Momentum at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (in English European House of Photography) in Paris mainly because I was interested in one of his projects: Women are heroes. Maybe I should warn you that, if you decide to go to this exhibition after reading this article, you shouldn’t be…

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#metoo allegations rock the ballet world

10 January 2019 0Comments 0Reactions

By Nolwenn Guibert Ballet was born during the Renaissance in the courts of Italy and developed further under Louis XIV of France. Different “schools” or artistic methods later evolved in Russia, Sweden the United Kingdom, and the USA. Tradition is central to the teaching and transmission of ballet. Ballet students around the world perpetuate this tradition…

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