Journalistic Spectacle in Zagreb: Journalists from all over Europe come to the Voices Festival
The second European Festival of Journalism and Media Literacy – Voices Festival – begins today in Zagreb, at the Museum of Contemporary Art and will last until 1.3. See the program HERE.
Organized by the consortium of European vocational and academic organizations and sponsored by the European Commission, interested will witness a rich, contemporary and relevant program that encompasses key topics such as artificial intelligence in journalism, disinformation, journalists' security, challenges in media economic models, media literacy, the integrity of election, the European legislation, digital environment.
After a successful first edition in Florence in 2024, which brought together more than 1300 participants, the Voices Festival continues its mission to connect citizens, journalists and media professionals across Europe. For three days, participants have the opportunity to participate in panels, discussions, interactive workshops, exhibitions, the theater play and network events.
Come students who blocked Serbia
The organizers are particularly highlighting the two -day program « Connecting Voices », the discussions that will be led by students, journalists and media experts from all over Europe will be presented on Saturday morning by representatives of journalism studies from Croatia and other European countries, and students from Novi Sad are also coming, Belgrade and Niš who have been eligible for months. Raccation from all over Europe.
Colleagues of Bjelorus journalists who work in exile are also coming, and in a part of the program, which will feature a number of interesting films about journalists and journalism will feature a film under the gray heaven on anti -rhine journalist Aliaxandra Vaitsekhovich, who was arrested for Livestaming violently strawing protests against the Belarussian elections. The director of the film Mara Tamkovich is coming to Zagreb festival.
On Saturday at 7pm and 30 in the Gorgon Hall, performed by Maltese actors, you can see the play by Blew Her Ut, which is a assassination of the Daphne Caruan Galizia assassination. Herman Grech is coming to Voices, one of the most respected Maltese journalists and editors. He is the editor -in -chief of Times of Malta and a prominent human rights and hate speech. Herman was involved in the Maltese theater scene for almost 30 years and after the murder of Daphne Caruan Galizie, he spoke with some of the main people who were involved in getting straight in the core of the case. The result is this amazing work of fiction, based on a dramatic court case and interviews. Admission to the play is free and Herman is available for interprets.
He was abducted by Islamists
The safety of journalist in Zagreb will be discussed by journalist Marc Marginedas reporter El Periódica, who followed the Civil War in Algeria, reported on wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Arab Spring in Tunisia and Libya and the conflict in Syria that followed. In 2013, he was abducted by the Islamic State and endured in captivity for six months. After release, he returned to Russia until the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Another colleague with extensive experience is coming to Zagreb – Mortaz Behboudi French -Afghan war reporter and award -winning journalist. On January 7, 2023, while on the task in Afghanistan, he was arrested by the Taliban intelligence service. After ten months of captivity, he was released on October 18, 2023 during the captivity, in April 2023, the International Association of Journalist Clubs awarded him the Award for Freedom of Expression, together with Polish journalist Andrzee PoCzobut.
In 2022 he was the only European journalist to go to the secret task in Iran to follow the movement of a woman, life, freedom.
Stuart Goldsmith Stuart award-winning comedian whose podcast 'Comedian's Comedian' had more than 25 million downloads on Voices comes with a new comedy about the climate crisis of 'Spoilers', which was one of the 50 best pendant stand-up emissions on Edinburgh Fringe.
They visited the brothel for reportage
Colleagues photographers Louise Herrche Serup and Sarah Hartvigsen Juncker from Denmark will present You Still Don't Know My Name, a research project documenting a sex worker in Denmark. During the project, they visited the brothels and interviewed and photographed the women who work there. The exhibition consists of a large number of portraits and a picture of the place where women work together with quotations and testimonies. Colleagues will be available for leadership through the exhibition during the two days of the festival.
Barbara Matejcic will present his award -winning project 'Cause Death: The Border'. Participants will listen to the exciting radio documentary together that recounts the deep human stories of individuals whose lives have tragically ended up on migrant routes.
Numerous representatives of the Croatian media, media experts, and media experts from all over Europe will be attended by the festival and will open up a series of discussions on the state and pressures of journalists in this area, and a special place is a journalism student who will be a panel guests, present their work and moderate some of the conversations. Students of media literacy, teachers and high school students will also participate in the festival.
Admission to the festival is free. Numerous workshops are free of charge you can apply to.
More information about the program, speakers and special events is available on the official Festival website: voicesfestival.eu.
