Mass Photo Gathering
Saturday 23rd January 2010, Noon
Trafalgar Square, London

I'm a Photographer, Not a Terrorist! invite all Photographers to a mass photo gathering in defence of street photography.

Following a series of high profile detentions under s44 of the terrorism act including 7 armed police detaining an award winning architectural photographer in the City of London, the arrest of a press photographer covering campaigning santas at City Airport and the stop and search of a BBC photographer at St Pauls Cathedral and many others. PHNAT feels now is the time for a mass turnout of Photographers, professional and amateur to defend our rights and stop the abuse of the terror laws.

Update: 2,000 photographers

25th January 2010. Based on article from edition.cnn.com

Photographers fed up with being stopped and searched by British police under the country's terrorism laws gathered in London to protest against the practice.

Waving placards with the message, I am a photographer, not a terrorist, about 2,000 photographers called for more leniency from the British police.

The Hoerengracht, by Ed and Nancy Kienholz
The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London
18th November 2009 - 21st February 2010

Amsterdam's infamous red-light district is being recreated in central London's National Gallery.

Visitors will peep through windows and doorways at mannequins dressed as prostitutes in the installation.

The Hoerengracht, by US artists Ed and Nancy Kienholz, opened on 21st November 2001 and will run until 21st February 2010

A gallery spokesman said it would "shed light" on its collection of Dutch 17th Century masters. These will include Jan Steen's Interior of an Inn, a bawdy pub scene, and de Hooch's Musical Party in a Courtyard.

The gallery's head of education, Colin Wiggins, said: Visitors will be able to walk into the installation, which is like a succession of streets.

Wiggins said the gallery would not warn children against entering the installation: If you look at the National Gallery as a whole, there are more things to warn against.

FrightFest
Glasgow Film Theatre
26-27th February 2010

Friday 26 February

• Frozen (19:00)
• 2001 Maniacs: Fields of Screams (21:30)
• Stag Night  (23:40)

Saturday 27 February

• A Lizard In A Woman's Skin  (14:00)
• Amer (Bitter) (16:15)
• [REC] 2 (19:00)
• Splice (21:00)
• Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre (23:30)

Music Freedom Day
3rd March 2010

The annual Music Freedom Day has grown into a truly global event which inspires increasing numbers of musicians and concert organisers to join.

Mumbai, Cairo, Amman, The Hague, Paris and New York are some of the cities planning to organize Music Freedom Day events in 2010 — a day that will see the release of the Freemuse CD Listen to the banned.

Several national broadcasting stations in – among others – Germany, Norway and Sweden will produce and present special programmes on music censorship and freedom of expression, and in the Hague in Holland the day is observed with an event which will run over two days, organised by MusicForce.org.

The Dutch Human Rights Ambassador, Mr. Arjan Hamburger, will attend the opening event in Holland, which focuses on rap and hip-hop culture.

Seminar in Jordan In Amman, the capital of Jordan, plans are underway to organise a seminar focusing on the situation for alternative music. In India one of Mumbai's international music clubs plans to present Pakistani music to mark the day, and in New York, the Impossible music series plans to run a Freemuse CD launch party.

Why Music Freedom Day?

Death threats to musicians in north-west Pakistan, imprisonment of musicians in Burma, Cameroon, and Syria, radio airplay restrictions on music in Somalia, endless court cases in Turkey... You could very well get the impression that musicians are an endangered species.

Radio reports Which is why Freemuse invites you to take part in the event as well. The Music Freedom Day is an opportunity to take a thorough look at the subject – in many languages, cultures, countries and points of view. This website features several original radio interviews and radio reports which are offered to radio stations in broadcast quality, free of charge.