Dublin Arts & Human Rights Festival 2023 Launched!

Dublin Arts & Human Rights Festival 2023 Launched!

We were delighted to recently launch the 5th annual Dublin Arts & Human Rights Festival Programme: An International Celebration of Arts and Human Rights.

This year the festival takes place from the 13 to 22 October 2023, and features exciting and innovative events that promote equality, human rights and diversity through the arts, taking place in Dublin, Kerry, Donegal and Cork, with artists and speakers in attendance from Ireland, Finland, Sweden, Italy, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Greece, Belgium, Cyprus, Romania, Bulgaria and Ukraine. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world, past and present, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today.

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Partners: The Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival is an annual, international festival organised by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders, a Dublin based international organisation working to improve the security and protection of human rights defenders at risk, in partnership with Amnesty International, Fighting Words, Irish Council for Civil Liberties, National Women’s Council of Ireland, Trócaire, GOAL NextGen and Irish PEN. Creative partners include Irish Modern Dance Theatre, dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin Castle, Rua Red South Dublin Arts Centre; and Unapologetic, Quintessence Theatre Company, Dance Cork Firkin Crane, Capreal Productions, and Docudays UA.