Support for Safeguarding Artists
The purpose is to strengthen organizations safeguarding artists by enhancing sector operations and attracting support from authorities and private funds
Illustration: Khalid Al Baih
Strategic considerations:
The inclusion of "enhancing sector operations" in the vision statement above is crucial and strategically significant. It denotes a deliberate strategy to not only secure financial support but also to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and overall functionality of the sector. This dual focus on both financial support and operational enhancements aligns with a comprehensive and strategic approach to achieving the vision of strengthening organizations safeguarding artists.
The latter part of the statement, "attracting support from authorities and private funds," signifies a strategic choice in how the program intend to strengthen the organizations safeguarding artists. It indicates a deliberate decision to seek external backing from both governmental bodies and private entities, demonstrating a strategic approach to diversifying and securing financial support. This strategic choice aligns with the overall vision of fortifying these organizations and creating a more sustainable and resilient sector for organisations that are supporting artists at risk.
Limitations:
While the support program primarily concentrates on supporting organizations dedicated to safeguarding artists, there may be limitations in directly addressing the unique needs of individual artists. The impact on artists themselves may depend on the effectiveness of the supported organizations in translating resources into tangible benefits for artists.
However, the program design extends opportunities for participation to individual artists, managers, and stakeholders within the sector. Participants can engage in various capacities, including attending annual meetings and other events of the Program as private contributors, participating in capacity-building initiatives, and taking part in more formal processes. This involvement encompasses activities such as nominations for the Jury of the granting mechanism for project support and inclusion in the Program Assurance Group.
Proposed interventions:
The Safeguarding Artists Program centers its efforts on strengthening the sector of organizations working for artist at risk. Through targeted support, advocacy, and collaborative initiatives, this program aims to fortify the infrastructure that ensures the safety of artists.
The following are indicative interventions for the Safeguarding Artists Program. All interventions will have a system of aligned reporting metrics:
Support for Organizations Safeguarding Artists:
Support to organizations dedicated to the safeguarding of artists.
Support for initiatives that aims at fostering collaboration and strengthen the operational capacities of these organizations.
Advocacy Campaigns for Awareness:
Support and actively engage in advocacy campaigns to raise awareness about the challenges faced by artists in need of safeguarding.
Promote a collective understanding of the importance of protecting artists at risk.
Monitoring and Reporting on Artists at Risk:
Support, coordinate and conduct ongoing monitoring initiatives to identify and address risks faced by artists.
Support, coordinate and conduct and reporting initiatives to document and communicate the situations faced by artists at risk.
Contributions to Sector Learning and Knowledge Sharing:
Actively contribute to the learning and knowledge-sharing within the sector.
Facilitate platforms for information exchange, collaboration, and best practices to enhance the sector's collective understanding.
Resources:
How to Contribute?
Mimeta brings together stakeholders in a unified effort, fostering collaboration as they collectively share a vision and strategy for a program. Participants willingly contribute funds, expertise, time, network or other resources to drive the intended changes. If you consider your assets valuable for realizing the program Support for Safeguarding Artists we ask you to leave contacting details and short notice on how you can contribute.
About Mimeta:
The vision of Mimeta is to GIVE PEOPLE THEIR RIGHT TO FREE CREATIVE EXPRESSIONS, created on free terms and presented by independent institutions.
The mission is to support and protect those who want to enhance a culture by aesthetic or intellectual means. By both vision and mission highlight the impact arts and creativity have on developing open societies, including the culture itself. The long-term impact is to provide free artistic practice to individuals. To achieve the intended impact, Mimeta focuses on outcomes that ensure protection for artists, storytellers, producers, and their works against abuse, censorship, legal or social persecution, and outcomes that increase accessibility for people to participate in artistic practice. These two outcomes constitute the universal artistic rights (ref. art 27 in the Human Rights Declaration).
On the strategic level Mimeta is achieving results by supporting organizations and individuals who work on behalf of the arts and media, to improve the sectors´ position on rights issues, in political and legal matters, on professionalism and skills, the distribution of the free expression and - in the end - the sustainability of the sector.
Thus, Mimeta works with partners that address these issues on behalf of their sectors. At the same time, we see that changes cannot be achieved, unless the need for change is understood, embraced, and advocated for by a community wider than the practitioners themselves, turning the stories into a widely adopted narrative for change. Storytelling is in this context also a tool for change. In this way, we work both for the universal rights that belong to the practitioners, and we see they’re free expressions as a prerequisite for making change in societies
