Vision
“Cultural diversity can be protected and promoted only if human rights and fundamental freedoms, such as freedom of expression, information and communication as well as the ability of individuals to choose cultural expressions, are guaranteed.” According to the First guiding principle of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expression ACAR watches and makes the international theatre community react to threats and violence against theatre people and severe restrictions to work with theatre activities, wherever it occurs in the world.

Mission
ACAR collects, proves, analyses and makes public cases of violation of the rights of theatre artists and the right to free artistic expression. The cases are addressed to politicians on a formal political level in the name of ITI, according to ACAR’s reaction scheme. ACAR cooperates with other Human and Artists Rights organizations and networks worldwide.

Aims
• To highlight violations on artists rights and freedom of expression.
• To support politically persecuted artists.
• To bring the specificity of theatre work as a collective and public live art into the international artist’s rights movement
• To develop a UNESCO reaction scheme for persecuted and censored artists.

Board and Board Members

Coordinator
Tajana Azman, Slovenia

Corresponding Members
Adam Berzsenyi, Hungary
Anina Jendreyko, Swiss
Ann Mari Engel, Sweden
Emilya Cachapero, USA
Gad Kaynar, Israel,
Linnea Stara, Finland
Raksak Kongseng, USA/Thailand
Sandra Karlung, Sweden
Thomas Engel, Germany
Ulricha Johnson, Sweden

Contact
Slovenian Centre of ITI
c/o Kulturni zavod Oder (Cultural Institute Stage) Beblerjev trg 7
1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia

acar(at)protonmail.me Documentation
Activity Report 2017-2022
Activity Report 2023-2024
ACAR online presentation, December 2020