Fritt Ord hosts the Oslo premiere of Ane Hjort Guttu’s film Time Passes on Monday the 25th of January 18.30-20.30 at Filmens hus (in Tancred). The screening is followed by a conversation between Guttu and Mike Sperlinger, professor at Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHIO). Welcome by Bente Roalsvig at Fritt Ord. “Time Passes” explores the relationship between art and politics, and looks at the public attitude towards poverty.
Each year, Fritt Ord awards the Freedom of Expression Foundation Prize to individuals or institutions that have shown civil courage and worked to defend and strengthen freedom of expression and the conditions for it in Norway, especially by encouraging dynamic debate.
The New York Review of Books Foundation, the University of Hong Kong and the Fritt Ord Foundation invite the public to an international conference on China that will take place on Friday and Saturday, 15-16 January 2016 at the University of Hong Kong.
Welcome to a seminar on censorship in Norway and abroad, Friday, 15 January 2016, from 9.30 a.m. to 3.15 p.m. at the Fritt Ord Foundation, Uranienborgveien 2, Oslo.
Freedom of Expression Foundation Prize laureate Berge Furre passed away on Tuesday, 12 January 2016, at the age of 78.
Press Release, 3 November 2014
The application deadlines for 2016 are: 6 January 12 February 29 March 13 May 1 August 9 September 4 November
We would also remind you that the call for proposals for earmarked funding for New Journalism.
With the project Digital Life, the Fritt Ord Foundation has invited the public to a debate on the place of computer games in culture and society. In addition to a series of events in the winter 2015/2016, the project includes of an essay competition with a deadline for entries on Friday, 15 April.
Computer games are widely varied cultural expressions that thematise everything from political ideology to the meaning of life. However, in the major debates taking place about computer games, where is the Norwegian public? What is the status of Norwegian gaming journalism?
Computer games are widely varied cultural expressions that thematise everything from political ideology to the meaning of life. However, in the major debates taking place about computer games, where is the Norwegian public? What is the status of Norwegian gaming journalism?
BRITDOC, supported by the Fritt Ord Foundation and other Nordic partners, brought Good Pitch Europe to Oslo on March 25th 2015. In May 2016 Good Pitch Europe is coming to Stockholm, Sweden. Call for Entries is now open.
kåkå kverulantkatedralen and the Fritt Ord Foundation invite the public to theme days on conspiracy theories 25–28 November 2015 at kåkå kverulantkatedralen, Sting Nere, Valberget 3, Stavanger.
