Artists in Oppression

Welcome to our app, that will be your useful advisor during the whole conference. With this app you will get all these following features and even more: • Browse interactively through the planned speeches and meetings • Add your favourite speakers to create your own personalized conference schedule to get all the information needed. • Keep up-to-date with conference alerts and new information via push notifications. You will never miss your favourite speaker again • Mobile Map - Never get lost in the conference venue, find all sessions and POIs easily • Useful FAQs

Freedom of artistic creation is one of the fundamental human rights, at least according to the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms, which lists it alongside other human rights. Artistic freedom is a specific type of freedom of expression, and it is no coincidence that artists, along with journalists and commentators, tend to head lists of persecuted individuals. Through their work, artists stir up society and force it to ask questions, frequently uncomfortable ones. Open and understanding societies can be enriched and strengthened by art. In many countries around the world, however, artists are exposed to threats and often face censorship, persecution or imprisonment when their work challenges political regimes, social norms or religious structures. Repression of this type shows how powerful a weapon art can be against oppression. And this need not only concern “known” totalitarian regimes. Seemingly inconspicuous restrictions on rights and freedoms in otherwise free societies also merit our attention. However, many voices and artistic expressions remain resolute, with artists following their own consciences and maintaining their integrity and courage, as demonstrated by the playwright and author Václav Havel.