Laws & Regulations

Equitable Futures Fellowship is a new programme from the Doris Duke Foundation and the East-West Center, calling for leaders from a broad range of cultures and backgrounds. Fellows will explore techniques to empower previously unheard voices and resolve inequity in its many forms, including gaps in income, health care, and education; impacts of the climate crisis; and challenges to societal pluralism.

The current and the previous year have forced everyone to take a fresh look at freedom of artistic expression and recognise that it is threatened not only in countries with authoritarian regimes but also in countries with competitive democratic elections. This open call, titled ‘Non-Utterance’, aims to capture this moment, analyse the atmosphere in the artistic environment, and explore censorship and self-censorship in art.

This questionnaire is aimed at host/inviting organisations (cultural venue, festival, residency place, biennale etc.) based and registered in a Schengen country that have encountered visa problems and/or refusals for artists and culture professionals they invited from African countries.

The European Commission is aiming to introduce a digital visa to replace the paper visa sticker currently used, and to enable those planning to travel to the EU to submit their visa application online. The Commission has opened a consultation to obtain the views of citizens and stakeholders on the envisaged initiative, with feedback given through a questionnaire.