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Sunday, 23 October from 11 am to noon

Artists at Risk (AR): A global safe haven for artists under threat

Artists at Risk (AR) is an international NGO with over 500 member organisations around the world that support artists in danger, including those from  Asia and its diasporas. This roundtable with Ivor Stodolsky and Marita Muukkonen, AR’s Co-Founders and Co-Directors, features Afghan and Ukrainian AR-Paris Residents and artists. 

The Panelists:

The Co-Founders and Co-Directors of Artists at Risk (AR), Ivor Stodolsky and Marita Muukkonen

Fareba Qasimi (b. 2000), AR-Resident at Centre National de la Dance, hip-hop dancer from Afghanistan

Evelina Tryntsolyn (b. 1986), AR-Paris Resident, glass artist and painter from Ukraine

Nikita Kravtsov (b. 1988), artist and activist from Ukraine

Assisting Artists whose Freedom and Lives are at Risk

ARTISTS at RISK (AR) is a non-profit organisation active at the intersection of human rights and the arts (501c-3 equivalency). Since 2013, AR has built a mondial network of artistic institutions, non-profits, municipalities, states and international organisations to assist, relocate and fund artists who are at risk of persecution or oppression, or are fleeing war or terror. Prior to the war in Ukraine, AR hosted artists in 26 locations in 19 countries globally. Since the beginning of the Russian invasion, over 500 hosting institutions have joined the platform across Europe in order to relocate and support the over 1850 art practitioners at risk from Ukraine. Parallel to this, over 400 dissident artists and cultural workers from Russia and Belarus, at risk of persecution, imprisonment or worse, have applied for support. Artists and hosts have registered directly via our forms found on our front page. Applications have also reached us via important partnerships with UNESCO, Goethe Institute, the Swedish SWAN network and other national and regional residency networks such as in Italy and Spain.