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Open dialogue is the key to a healthy cohesive society, but some fear the disruptive, dangerous potential of truly free speech. One person's passionately held belief is another person's offence, yet to close speech down in the name of protecting sensibilities, denies the right to freedom of expression. Where do you draw the line?
TRIPWIRES uses the arts to explore and communicate freedom of expression and censorship from the perspective of young Londoners, fostering an environment of openness and tolerance as they tackle some of the most controversial issues of the day.
Working alongside international artists and most importantly, listening to their experiences, we aim to unlock the ability to understand and share their positions, through the medium of the arts providing a means to communicate to others. We aim to develop these activities and approaches as much needed resources for formal and non-formal peer education programmes, to raise awareness and deepen understanding of the rights and responsibilities of freedom of expression.
TRIPWIRES is generously supported by City Bridge Trust, Awards for All, The Big Arts Give, Allen & Overy and Queen Mary, University of London.
About the organisations...
TRIPWIRES is a working partnership between
 www.indexoncensorship.org Index on Censorship is UK's leading free expression organisations with a significant global reach through its journalism, events, advocacy and projects. Reporting on censorship around the world has always been at the core of Index's mission, since it was founded in 1971. Now, through its website, magazine, public campaigns, and arts and youth programmes, it is raising awareness about a variety of free speech issues among a wide audience in the UK and around the world. We have been defending freedom of expression internationally and in UK for 40 years and have extensive experience of working with contentious situations, and a wealth of resources to hand. We work in UK, addressing constraints on freedom of expression, including libel reform and self-censorship in UK culture. We are committed to reaching out to young people, and to do this we are working in partnership with Project Phakama, Queen Mary University of London. | Project Phakama UK is an independent charitable organisation. Its board is chaired by Dr Barbara Heinzen, its patrons are William Forsythe and Benjamin Zephaniah, and it has partners in Argentina, Botswana, Brazil, Germany, Ireland, India, Lesotho, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Poland, Portugal, Spain and the USA. Phakama's approach transcends age, experience and culture. Driven by a common desire to make high quality, creative theatre, it is fuelled instead by the diversity of all those involved. Through a process that we call Give and Gain, learning becomes two-way; everyone has something they can give to the project and everyone has something to gain. And through this interchange of skills, knowledge, information and ideas, everyone becomes both student and teacher. We are committed to the practice of cultural exchange and the celebration of shared experiences; by promoting a non-hierarchical educational philosophy through the medium of the arts and training participants to become the Phakama facilitators of the future. |
About the session leader...
She has been a facilitator and director with the National Theatre’s Education Department for the past ten years, directing credits include: Feathers in The Snow (Studio), An Island Far from Here, performance credits: City of Dreams (Studio)
She has been a facilitator with Project Phakama for the past seven years, credits include: Strange Familiars (National Children’s Home), Breaking the Glass Box (Horniman Museum), Postcards from Here (Potman’s Park), When Time Is Not (Theatre Royal Stratford East), The World At My Feet (Gedung Kesenian Jakarta, Indonesia)
Corinne is a guest lecturer at London Metropolitan University in Community Performance Practice and teaches at several primary schools.
