Index on Censorship

Index on Censorship is one of the world's leading repositories of original, challenging, controversial and intelligent writing on free expression issues. Index on Censorship continues to log free expression abuses in scores of countries world wide in its Index Index section, reports on censorship issues from all over the world, and has added to the debates on those issues.

Index Arts is a specialist arm of Index on Censorship, working in all art forms to promote and support freedom of artistic and cultural expression for disempowered, under- and mis-represented or silenced communities and individuals, both in this country and around the world.

Vision
The artistic, creative and cultural expression of all people is valued as essential to achieving a balanced, vibrant and responsive society; the arts are acknowledged as having an important role to play in bringing about change on a personal and societal level.

Index Arts aims to:

• Provide platforms for artists from marginalised, repressed and under-represented communities
• Provide access to tools of creative expression to people experiencing social exclusion, as a means to finding and presenting their voice
• Provide platforms for cultural and artistic expression by marginalised and under-represented communities
• Further the debate on freedom of expression in the arts and offer training
• Monitor, document and publish online, abuses of freedom of expression in performing, lens based and visual arts
• Work with young people to understand and exercise their right to freedom of expression through the creative arts.