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Events

The Collective Courage Conversation Series brings together people working across the arts, culture, and advocacy fields to explore the challenges and possibilities of upholding free expression in the arts today. Each discussion will examine urgent topics and offer information and strategies for preserving artistic and cultural freedom at a time when it is under threat.
Past Events

The second event of the Collective Courage Conversations Series, this event will explore how universities are attempting to justify censorship with flawed legal claims– and what artists and students are doing to resist.
Join us for a conversation that examines recent cases of art censorship on campus– in which universities attempt to justify their censorious actions with flawed legal claims– and what artists and students are doing to resist. The talk will feature discussions with artist Elana Mann, whose work was recently censored at Pepperdine University, Liberty Welch and Maggie Lawson, student director-producers who were pressured into cancelling their own production by the University of Central Oklahoma, and Ralph Sevush, Executive Director of Business Affairs & General Counsel for The Dramatists Guild of America.
This first event of the Collective Courage Conversations Series explores the current legal landscape of artistic freedom in the US.
This online discussion will explore the current legal landscape of free expression in the arts. Lee Rowland (National Coalition Against Censorship) and Scarlet Kim (American Civil Liberties Union), both First Amendment lawyers and free expression advocates, will cover the state of obscenity law, limitations on NEA grants (and related constitutional challenges), government pressures on non-profits, and more. Lee and Scarlet will present for 30 minutes, followed by a 30 minutes Q&A with the audience.
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