The Fritt Ord Foundation competition for upper secondary school students is introducing a new topic for the 2014/2015 school year: “The Heroes and Anti-heroes of Freedom of Expression”. We invite pupils to contribute texts or media productions that examine and introduce their hero or anti-hero.
Documentary photography in Norway has experienced a pronounced renaissance over the last decade, establishing its position as a self-standing genre, autonomous from Art and press photography. Owing to the Fritt Ord Foundation’s support for the Norwegian Journal of Photography (NJP), a growing number of Norwegian photographers have had a new platform to showcase their independent, long-term projects to both national and international audiences.
On Saturday, 24 January 2015, the Fritt Ord Foundation will examine in more detail the principle aspects of the debate about the controversial award one of the world’s most coveted theatre prizes, the International Ibsen Award, to Peter Handke. The conference is intended to shed light on the relationship between art, politics and freedom of expression in a broad sense.
Welcome to a seminar in Bodø on Thursday, 27 November 2014 from 9.30 a.m. – 3.39 p.m. at the Stormen Library and House of Literature.
19 November marks the conclusion of the project “The Status of Freedom of Expression in Norway – the Fritt Ord Foundation’s monitoring project” with a full-day conference at the House of Literature. The researchers will be presenting chapters from the main report, and summarising the findings from the project, which has been in progress since autumn 2013.
Along with partners from the University of Oslo (Dept. of Media and Communication), FAFO, TNS Gallup, and attorney Jon Wessel Aas, ISF’s researchers presented their report on “The Status of Freedom of Expression in Norway” today at the closing session of the full-day conference arranged at the House of Literature on the Status of Freedom of Expression in Norway, the Fritt Ord Foundation’s monitoring project.
Seasoned female online debaters claim that one must be thick-skinned and endure unpleasantness if one wants to take part in debates on the social media. Over time, some women become more reticent about utterances they know can be provocative, according to a recent report that is part of the project ‘Status of Freedom of Expression in Norway’.
In preparation for Good Pitch Europe in the Nordic countries, BRITDOC is hosting an Impact Producers Lab in Finland from January 7th-9th 2015, specifically for Nordic professionals. Closing date for applications is 21st November 2014.
The Fritt Ord Foundation and Substans Film invite the public to the Oslo premiere of the film ‘1989’, from 7.45 – 10.30 p.m. on 5 November, at the Fritt Ord Foundation, Uranienborgveien 2, Oslo.
Flimmer Film, the Fritt Ord Foundation and TourDeForce invite the public to the Oslo premiere of the documentary film ‘Drone’ at the Victoria Cinema on 5 November at 6:45 p.m.