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OUR MISSION

1 - PROTECT ARTISTS

2 - PROTECT FREEDOM IN THE ARTS

3 - PROTECT THE MISSIONS OF ARTS INSTITUTIONS

Freedom in the Arts is being set up by choreographer Rosie Kay and arts producer Denise Fahmy. Designed as a 5-year emergency project to tackle the culture of fear and intimidation artists are facing for expressing their legal views, to slow down and halt institutional capture, and to question imposed ideological decision making.

Freedom in the Arts has three key aims, which are

• to protect freedom of speech and to offer artists all levels of support to protect their rights
• to protect freedom of expression and make sure that the arts are the place where difficult ideas can be addressed, explored and discussed
• to uphold the mission of institutions that serve the arts and the public, to make sure they maintain impartiality and are non-ideologically driven.

WHO WE ARE

Rosie Kay is a multi-award-winning choreographer, dancer and director with 25 years’ experience in the dance world, making productions based on in-depth research on serious subjects such as war in 5 SOLDIERS (2010) and cults in MK ULTRA (2017). She is a former Leverhulme Artist in Residence to the University of Oxford. In 2021 Kay resigned from her own company, after defending women's rights and sadly unsupported by her charity board and set up her new company K2CO which toured the UK this Spring with 5 SOLDIERS. The company website is www.k-2co.com.

Denise Fahmy has 30 years’ experience in arts administration. Denise is a visual arts specialist and worked for Arts Council England for 15 years. In June 2023 an Employment Tribunal found that Denise’s claim of harassment, that she’d experienced at work relating to her gender critical belief, was well-founded. Her legal costs were met by 1,284 well-wishers through a Crowd Justice campaign.