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WPFD 2016 Side Event Re-shaping Cultural Policies, May 2, 2016, National Museum, Mannerheimintie 34, ,

13.00 Opening Gunvor Kronman, CEO Hanasaari Cultural Centre for and Finland Welcoming words Sanni Grahn-Laasonen, Minister of Education and Culture, Finland Keynote: Women, Art and Media President, Chairperson of the Finnish National Gallery Comment Dagfinn Høybråten, Secretary General of the Nordic Council of Ministers

13.30 New Challenges in cultural Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO policies Sanni Grahn-Laasonen, Minister of Education and Culture, Finland High level political Alice Bah Kuhnke, Minister of Culture and Democracy, Sweden discussion, including Q&A Linda Hofstad Helleland, Minister of Culture, with the audience Bertel Haarder, Minister of Culture, Illugi Gunnarsson, Minister of Education, Science and Culture,

Comment: Minister of Culture Rigmor Dam, Faroe Islands, representing the Ministers of Culture of the three autonomous Nordic areas Greenland, Faroe Islands and Åland. 14.40 Coffee break

15.05 Keynote: Staffan Forssell, Director General, Swedish Arts Council Offering Shelter To Artists At Risk 15.15 Improving Artistic Freedom Deeyah Khan, Film Director, Pakistan/ Norway/Great Britain In A Digital Age Jude Dibia, Writer, Nigeria/Sweden Panel discussion including Adel Abidin, Visual Artist, Iraq/Finland Q&A with the audience Aude Pariset, Visual artist, / Leevi Haapala, Director, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki

Closing words Danielle Cliche Chief of Section Diversity of Cultural Expressions, UNESCO 16.30 End of programme

Moderator: Jussi-Pekka Rantanen, journalist, Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE

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Re-shaping Cultural Policies for Development

Promoting Diversity of Cultural Expressions and Artistic Freedom in a Digital Age National Museum in Helsinki, Finland May 2, 2016, 13.00 – 16.30

This side-event is held in the context of World Press Freedom Day celebrations and within the framework of the Finnish 2016 of the Nordic Council of Ministers and one of the core themes of the Nordic Council of Ministers Strategy for Nordic Cultural Co-operation"The Intercultural Nordic Region". The event is arranged in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Culture. It will serve to discuss new challenges for development in cultural policy making, around the findings of UNESCO’s first Global Report to monitor the implementation of the 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions. Questions to ponder:

 What has been the policy impact of the 2005 Convention and how have cultural policies been re-shaped as a result? And how can the Convention help to implement the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda?  What is the impact of the new digital environment on the diversity of cultural expressions, from creation to access and distribution? How to encourage digital creativity and civil participation in this new environment?  How to improve legislation and practices with regards to artistic freedom, the social and economic rights of artists, in particular, women as creators and producers of cultural goods and services?

SPEAKERS, May 2 (in order of appearance)

Gunvor Kronman has a long experience in leadership and international assignments. During the past 20 years she has held central positions across all sectors, private, public and third sector alike, in Finland, Denmark and several African countries. Since 2003 she holds the position of CEO of Hanasaari – the Swedish-Finnish Cultural Centre. She is also an active member of the board of Finnair, the , Koru (Kalevala Jewelry), the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, Crisis Management Initiative (CMI), Plan International and many others. Leadership, strategic planning, mentorship and cross-sectoral networking are some of Gunvor Kronman’s key qualifications. She has also received several honorary medals for promoting the relations between Sweden and Finland. Gunvor Kronman holds a Master of Arts degree from the University of Helsinki and she is an Eisenhower Fellow. Gunvor Kronman

Sanni Grahn-Laasonen is Minister of Education and Culture, Vice-President of the of Finland and serving her second term in Parliament. She was born in Forssa. Besides matters related to education and culture, her portfolio as Minister of Education and Culture involves issues related to sport, youth and church affairs. Grahn-Laasonen was Minister of the Environment between 2014 and 2015. Before becoming an MP, she worked as a reporter, head of news services, Stockholm press correspondent and press attaché to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. She spends her leisure time exercising and reading and likes to visit auctions. Nowadays she can also be found in the playground with her child. Sanni Grahn-Laasonen

Tarja Halonen was the 11th President of the of Finland 2000-2012 and Finland’s first female . She acceded office on 1 March 2000, and was re-elected in 2006. Tarja Halonen has a Master of Law degree. Tarja Halonen joined the Social Democratic party in 1971 and was elected to the Parliament for the first time in 1979, and after that she was re-elected four times, until she assumed the office of the . She has been Minister at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health in 1987–90, Minister of Justice in 1990–91, and Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1995–2000. She was also Minister responsible for Nordic co-operation in 1989–91. From March 2009 until September 2014, she served as the Chair of the Council of Women World Leaders. In August 2010, Tarja Halonen was appointed co-chair of the UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Global Sustainability. Tarja Halonen has paid close attention to the issues Tarja Halonen of human rights, democracy, civil society and .

Mr. Dagfinn Høybråten has a Master in Political Science from University of and was a Minister in the Norwegian Government 1997-2000 and 2001-2005. As Minister of Health he pioneered the law banning smoking in public places, making Norway the second country in to act based on the available knowledge on the risk of smoking. Mr. Høybråten has been a member of the Norwegian parliament from 2005 to 2013. In 2004 he was elected leader of the Christian Democratic Party of Norway and held this position until 2011. As Secretary General for the Nordic Council of Ministers, Mr. Høybråten is now engaged in modernizing and developing the Nordic cooperation and the Nordic Council of Ministers. In the years 2011-15 Mr. Dagfinn Høybråten has also served as Chairman of the Board of GAVI, the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization.

Dagfinn Høybråten Irina Bokova has been the Director-General of UNESCO since 2009. Her fields of action include quality education for all, gender equality, enabling scientific cooperation for sustainable development, global advocacy for the safety of journalists and freedom of expression. Irina Bokova joined the United Nations Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria in 1977. As Member of Parliament (1990-1991 and 2001-2005), she advocated for Bulgaria’s membership in EU and NATO and participated in the drafting of Bulgaria’s new . Irina Bokova was Minister for Foreign Affairs a.i., Coordinator of Bulgaria- relations and Ambassador of Bulgaria to France, Monaco and UNESCO and Personal Representative of the President of the Republic of Bulgaria to the “Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie” (OIF). Irina Bokova is Executive Secretary of the Steering Committee of the UN Secretary- General’s Global Education First Initiative (GEFI) and co-Vice-Chair of the Broadband Commission. Irina Bokova Alice Bah Kuhnke holds the position as Minister for Culture and Democracy in the Swedish Government since October 2014. She belongs to the Green Party. Ms Bah Kuhnke has a BA in Political Science from Stockholm University and holds several diplomas in leadership. She has many years of experience and commitment in areas such as human rights, environment and civil society. Ms Bah Kuhnke was previously Director-General of the Swedish Agency for Youth and Civil Society. Ms Bah Kuhnke has also long experience in culture and media, including as reporter for the Swedish public service broadcaster, SVT, and for TV4. She has served as a board member of several institutions as well as civil society organizations. Alice Bah Kuhnke

Ms Linda Hofstad Helleland was born on 26 August 1977. She was appointed Minister of Culture on 16 December 2015. Ms Hofstad Helleland met regularly as Substitute Member to the Storting (Norwegian Parliament) for the Conservative Party from 2001. In 2009 she was elected Member of the Storting, and chaired the Standing Committee on Transport and Communications until she joined the government last year. Ms Hofstad Helleland has had several political, public and administrative appointments. Ms Hofstad Helleland has studied media, political science and sociology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and taken courses in management at the Norwegian School of Management. Minister Hofstad Helleland is responsible for cultural policy, church, religious and belief-related matters, media policy, sports policy, gaming and lottery regulation, and the coordination of government policy relating to the voluntary sector. Linda Hofstad Helleland

Bertel Haarder graduated in political science, Aarhus University, 1970. He is Member of Parliament for the Liberal Party since 1973, and Minister for Culture since June 28th 2015. Former government positions (among others): Minister for the Interior and Health, Minister of Education and Minister for Nordic Cooperation, Minister for Education, Minister for Ecclesiastical Affairs, Minister for Refugee, Immigration and Integration Affairs and Minister for Development Cooperation. Member of the Research, Education and Further Education Committee and the Ecclesiastical Affairs Committee since 2011. President of the Nordic Council 2011. Chairman of the Danish delegation to the Nordic Council since 2011. Member of the European Parliament 1994-2001. Vice-chairman of the European Parliament 1997-1999. Bertel Haarder

Icelandic Minister of Education, Science and Culture since 2013. Member of Althingi for the Reykjavík South Constituency 2007-2009 and for the Reykjavík North Constituency since 2009. Chairman of the parliamentary group of the Independence Party 2012-2013 and 2009-2012. Member of the Icelandic delegation to the Nordic Council 2011-2013 and 2009-2010. Member of the Icelandic Delegation to the EFTA and EEA Parliamentary Committees 2007-2009. Mr. Gunnarsson has an extensive work experience and his career includes among other things teaching in a primary school, organist at Flateyri Church and managing post in a fishing industry in the Westfjords. He was a researcher at the University of Iceland for two years before he became a political assistant to the former Prime Minister Mr. Davið Oddsson in 2000 to 2005. Illugi Gunnarsson

Rigmor Dam is Minister of Education, Research and Culture in the Government of the Faroe Islands, which is an autonomous area within the Kingdom of Denmark. Rigmor Dam was elected member of the Faroese parliament (Løgting) for Social Democratic Party (Javnaðarflokkurin) in 2011. At the 2015 she was re-elected. In the Løgting during years 2011-2015 Rigmor Dam was Vice chairman for the Welfare Committee (Trivnaðarnevndin), Member of the Committee of Culture affairs (Mentanarnevndin) and Vice member of the Committee of Justice (Rættarnevndin). On 15 September 2015 she was elected Minister of Culture in the Cabinet of Aksel V. Johannesen

Rigmor Dam Staffan Forssell has worked in senior positions within the fields of culture for the past 22 years, since 2014 as Director General at the Swedish Art Council. Previous assignments include Director General at the Swedish Exhibition Agency and CEO at the Swedish performing arts organization the Stage Company. Staffan Forssell has active board assignments at the International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA), the Nordic Culture Fund and the Swedish Arts Council. He has also had board assignments at the Swedish museum of Natural History, Swedish Performing Arts and International Space Theatre Consortium among others. Staffan Forssell has been involved in most of areas of culture: music, theater, dance, film, museums, and literature. His work has brought him around the world in several international projects. Staffan Forssell

Deeyah Khan is a film director, music producer and human rights activist. Born in Norway to parents of Punjabi/Pashtun descent, she began her career at seven as a singer and stage artist, performing traditional South Asian classical and folk music. In her teens, she switched to pop music and then composed and produced world music. Deeyah experienced ongoing harassment, including threats against her life from Muslims who considered her musical career ‘dishonourable’, which eventually forced her into exile. In 2009, she directed and produced Banaz: A Love Story, a documentary about honor killings. The film won both an Emmy and a Peabody Award in 2013. Deeyah’s latest documentary: Jihad: A British Story, is a personal journey which examines the social and psychological roots of violent extremism and the rise of the jihadi movement in the West. Deeyah is one of the Word Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders 2015, a Visiting Fellow at the Ford Foundation and in 2015 received the University of Oslo Human Rights Award. Deeyah Khan

Jude Dibia is the author of three successful novels and a number of short stories, which have been featured in both local and international anthologies and magazines. A recipient of the Ken-Saro Wiwa Prize for Prose in his native country, Dibia’s 2005 debut novel, Walking with Shadows, tackled the sensitive issue of the rights and freedoms of LGBTQI+ persons in his country at a time the Nigerian legislature was pushing for harsher punishments and laws to proscribe homosexuality and LGBTQI+ persons. Walking with Shadows was bold in addressing the existence of homosexuals in Nigeria and some of the abuses they endure. Dibia has continued to write about these abuses in his short stories. With the passing of the Anti Same-Sex marriage law in Nigeria in January 2014, Dibia made the decision to leave Nigeria. Jude Dibia is the current guest writer of Malmö City of Refuge. Jude Dibia

Abidin was born in Baghdad in 1973 and currently lives between Helsinki and Amman. He presented his work at Biennale of Contemporary Art of Bosnia (2013); 54th Venice Biennale- Iraq Pavilion (2011); 10th Sharjah Biennial (2011), 17th Biennale of Sydney (2010), and the upcoming 56th Venice Biennale, he is invited to represent his 2008 Mixed media Installation “I’M SORRY” at the official Iranian Pavilion (2015). Group exhibitions including, among others: One Architecture Week, Plovdiv (2015), Rotterdam International Film Festival (2015), Glasstress-The 56th Interna-tional Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia (2015), MACRO-Museum, Rome, Louisiana Museum, Copenhagen, (2013), KIASMA- Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki (2010), In 2013, Abidin has received Five Years Grant from The Art Council of Finland and Ars Fennica Prize Nominee 2011. is invited to participate in the international ARS 17 exhibition Adel Abidin at the Kiasma Museum of Cobnemporary Art in Helsinki, opening in March, 2017.

Aude Pariset, who extracts and re-homes the short-lived images used in online fashion merchandising, subverts the conventional life-path of these photographs by disrupting the relationship between the image and its intended purpose. In her Hosting Works, Exposure Rules exhibition at Sandy Brown (2012), adverts for Ralph Lauren, Paul Smith and River Island are at once 'hosted’and distorted by serving trays and folding furniture. Aude Pariset is a co-founder of Bcc, a series of single-evening exhibitions that find a curator in charge of materialization of digital files submitted by artists. The working process of the exhibitions is based on a collaborative arrangement where each artist emails digital files to the project database. A guest curator is in turn invited to make a selection from the database, interpret their physical form, and organize them in an exhibition. Aude Pariset Aude Pariset is invited to participate in the international ARS 17 exhibition at the Kiasma Museum of Cobnemporary Art in Helsinki, opening in March, 2017.

PhD Leevi Haapala is Museum Director at the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki since June 2015. He is a curator, art writer and researcher of contemporary art. He worked previously as a Praxis Professor, Exhibition Studies, MA Program in Academy of Fine Arts, University of Arts, Helsinki (2014-2015) and a curator for collections in the Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiasma, Helsinki (2007-2014). He made doctoral thesis on moving image and installation art from psychoanalytic perspective (2004-2007), The Unconsci ous in Contemporary Art. The Gaze, Voice and Time in Finnish Contemporary Art at the Turn of the Millennium (Institute for Art Research, Art History, University of Helsinki, 2011). He is a board member in Pro Arte Foundation and IHME Contemporary Art Festival in Helsinki since 2009 and a member of selection board of the Young Artist of the Year at Art Museum since 2012. He works also as a lecturer, teacher, and he has written several articles to exhibition catalogues, monographs and art Leevi Haapala reviews.

Danielle Cliche is Secretary of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions (2005) and Chief of Section on the Diversity of Cultural Expressions since 2009. She ensures implementation of the Convention worldwide, supports the work of the governing bodies and manages a team responsible for related operational programmes providing technical expertise to strengthen the governance of culture in developing countries or financial support through the International Fund for Cultural Diversity. In 2013, she led an inter-agency team with the UN Office for South-South Cooperation to produce the 2013 UN Creative Economy Report Special Edition, “Widening Local Development Pathways”. She coordinated the 2015 edition of the UNESCO Global Report “Re-shaping Cultural Policies”. Previously she Danielle Cliche was research manager for the European Institute of Comparative Cultural Research (ERICarts Institute) and founding co-editor of the Compendium of Cultural Policies and Trends in Europe. Since the early 1990s, she has carried out a wide range of international comparative research studies in the field of culture. A graduate of the University of Ottawa in communication theory, culture and international comparative politics, she also earned her PhD from the Vrije Universitat Amsterdam in 2009.

Jussi-Pekka Rantanen is a Senior TV News Presenter and Producer at the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle hosting the major flagship TV news bulletins. He has also hosted Yle’s Morning TV as well as a popular arts and culture series Strawberry Fields. As a presenter, Rantanen has been involved in a number of different program projects including e.g. opera broadcasts, gala concerts, seminars and the Independence Day Reception at the Presidential Palace – traditionally the single most watched program of the year in Finland. On top of his domestic career, Rantanen has hosted and moderated many international events abroad. In these projects, he has worked for the European Broadcasting Union EBU, NewsXChange, the Council of Europe, Prix Europa and NHK. Jussi-Pekka Rantanen has studied at the University of Tampere and the University of Texas. At , his major was journalism and mass communication and he graduated (MSc) in 2000. Jussi-Pekka Rantanen

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WPFD2016 Helsinki May 3rd, 2016 Parallel Session 2

Is artistic freedom a new development challenge? A Talk Show Helsinki, Veranda 3, Finland Hall, 10h30-12h00,

 How can artistic freedom be understood as a challenge for development policies and advocacy? is it different from freedom of expression for media professionals?  What are the barriers to freedom of movement for artists and cultural professionals from the Global South? How can they be overcome?  Why and where are women still under represented as content creators and producers within the artistic and media sphere? What are the gender specificities when it comes to artistic freedom and mobility?

10.30 Gunvor Kronman CEO Hanasaari Cultural Centre for Sweden and Finland Sanni Grahn-Laasonen Minister of Education and Culture (Finland)

Ammu Joseph Journalist, media watcher (India) Ole Reitov Executive Director, Freemuse (Denmark) Mike van Graan Executive Director, African Arts Institute (South Africa) Marie Ottosson Assistant Director-General, SIDA Development Cooperation Agency (Sweden)

12.00 End of programme

Musician Mikael Konttinen

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