Mongoosmagazine – PFF Festival

Dec 13, 2013 | press 2013

Artists, Interviews December 12, 2013 by Myriam Lamrani A non-government, voluntary organization, Passion for Freedom’s message is simple: Freedom of women, freedom of speech; protecting it where it exists, promoting it where it doesn’t. Mongoos spoke to festival...

Embassy of DENMARK about PFF

Dec 8, 2013 | press 2013

BY MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF DENMARK Firoozeh Bazrafkan. What brings radical artists together from around the world?  Where are the activists in the fight for women’s rights?  Passion for Freedom links together an amazing array of individuals fighting for...

Off-Limits: Subjects Artists Won’t Tackle

Dec 8, 2013 | press 2013

Feature article by PETER WHITTLE in Standpoint Magazine Veils uncovered: Artist Martha Mosse’s performance of “The Slut, The Spinster and the Perfect Woman” at the Passion for Freedom show  Delivering this year’s Reith Lectures — the first contemporary artist to...

Interview wp.pl

Dec 3, 2013 | press 2013

Interview with Marianna Fox, director of the Passion for Freedom festival and curators Barbara Leszczynska and Katka Kowalska. WP.PL We meet at the side of the River Thames and through a big window I can see Tate Modern Gallery.  The sunny café is just next door to...

Portraits In Cowardice

Nov 18, 2013 | press 2013

Why can’t we admit we’re scared of Islamism? “Let’s face it — we only challenge religions that won’t hurt us, and governments that won’t arrest us” by Nick Cohen – The Spectator Firoozeh Bazrafkan is frightened of...