 Date: Saturday, 24 July 2010
Time: 10:30 - 12:30
Location: Valletta
Isn't it ironic that whilst Malta is supposed to be celebrating culture through the The Malta Arts Festival, art is still being censored? Some paintings by Aleksandar Stankovski have just been banned from being exhibited in the Gozo Arts Festival. Jasmina Kotevska, who arranged to have these paintings exhibited was told by the person organising the art exhibition that the paintings were banned after a report was filed to the Ministry of Gozo. These paintigns had already been exhibited in Macedonia without problems. You can see the paintings by joining our Facebook Group http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=409552055022&ref=ts
Jasmina can be contacted on these numbers for further details: 79406724, 27892345
Make no mistake! The Censorship Regime is still busy making a massacre out of art and in the process suffocating our freedom of expression.
We are hence inviting you to attend the Funeral March of Art. This Funeral comes with a response to the Court Sentence which upheld the ban on 'Stitching'. The funeral will be held when the Arts Festival ends and art will be carried in a coffin by members of the FAC. You are invited to join! Don't hesitate! come and join the March to vent your disgust at how our right of freedom of expression is treated!
This Funeral March will also be symbolising the dying state of the arts in our country as a result of censorship. State censorship creates a sense of fear, self-censorship and takes away our civil liberties.
The Funeral will be held in Valletta, and will start from City Gate at 10:30 am. We will proceed halfway down Republic Street, up Merchant's Street and come to a halt in front of the Ministry for Culture. There, a voice will be given to artists whose work has been killed by the censors in Malta.
The Malta Arts Festival ends on Friday, the 23rd of July. Be sure to attend the Funeral on the following day!
You are invited to wear black to mourn Maltese art.
We will NOT tolerate the death of artistic freedom!
Front Against Censorship
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