RESISTANCE NOW TOGETHER

Opening Vienna Festival © Franzi Kreis

The Global Campaign for Art and Democracy

Democracy is weakening. Independent institutions and artistic freedom are suffering. RESISTANCE NOW TOGETHER stands up to this: it is an umbrella campaign that links events and performances about art and politics; civil society and the media; and the struggle for democracy in different countries.

Building on a call for artistic freedom in Winter 2024 that connected 200 leading cultural organizations and reached 100 million people, RESISTANCE NOW TOGETHER unites all cultural and civil society actors to stand together joined in a united, global and diverse response to rising nationalism.

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Creatives around the world are invited to submit their performances artistic, talks and events to form part of the RESISTANCE NOW TOGETHER campaign.

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Upcoming Events

"Art is indestructible"

Swiss actress Ursina Lardi delivered a rousing speech about culture as an act of resistance as she received the Silver Lion at the Biennale Teatro 2025 in Venice, on June 14, 2025. (c) La Biennale di Venezia

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Sign the Bratislava Declaration

450+ people attended the Open Culture Conference in Bratislava, which concluded with a clear call to protect artistic freedom in The 'Bratislava Declaration'.

Attacks on Artistic Freedom in Georgia

Data Tavadze and the Team at Royal District Theatre, Tbilisi set out how the Church and state-media had attacked 'LIBERTÉ [trigger warning]', calling it “blasphemous” and “propaganda of LGBT”.

EU Culture Chief Pledges to Protect Artistic Freedom

In a meeting with the European Theatre Convention (ETC) at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, EU Commissioner for Culture, Glenn Micallef, said that promoting and protecting artistic freedom "is one of my priorities.”

Milo Rau interview rbb

Milo Rau launched the "Resistance Now Together" campaign, which advocates for a European law to protect culture. Oliver Kranz reports (de)

New Manifesto

The 75+ leading theaters in the European Theater Convention (ETC) network have endorsed a manifesto, calling for RESISTANCE. NOW. TOGETHER

Open Letter

The board of the ETC backs Romanian cultural organizations in expressing concern about the Government's proposed changes to the management of public cultural institutions.

Night Review Coverage

German theater magazine Nachtkritik covers the launch of RESISTANCE NOW TOGETHER by ETC and Wiener Festwochen.

"Art Must Be Free"

MEP and Vice Chair of the CULT Committee Diana Riba i Giner made a strong statement at the Opera Europa conference in Barcelona in March 2025.

At Berlin's Schaubühne

NZZ writes about RESISTANCE NOW TOGETHER, and Milo Rau's calls for artistic freedom and resistance against “right-wing cultural enemies”

RESISTANCE NOW TOGETHER

The Global Campaign for Art and Democracy

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