The International Cities of Refuge Network is an association of cities and regions around the world dedicated to the value of Freedom of Expression.
Protection
ICORN Cities offer persecuted writers a safe haven where they can live and work without fear of being censored or silenced.
Promotion
ICORN supports the artistic endeavours of its guest writers and promotes new spaces for intercultural dialogues worldwide.
Palma de Mallorca becomes ICORN City of Refuge
July 2009 Saved to Network News
At a signing seremony on July 2, Palma de Mallorca, capitol of the Spanish Balearic region, officially joined ICORN as a City of Refuge, and will be receiving a guest writer in the near future.
The ICORN Aministration Center have been granted addittional funding
July 2009 Saved to Network News
The ICORN Administration Center has gratefully received additional funding from the Sigrid Rausing Trust and Freedom of Expression Foundation Norway (Fritt Ord). These funds will make it possible for the Administration Center to continue to serve member cities in the year to come.
Exiled Iranian Writers’ Appeal to the Writers of the World: Help us stop the suppression of the Iranian people!
June 2009 Saved to Network News
30 exiled Iranian author, among them former ICORN Guest Writer of Stavanger City of Refuge Mansour Koushan, are extending an appeal to the writers of the world.
Visit Shahrazad!
Welcome to the Shahrazad website, a free space in Europe for writers from all over the world to tell their stories and to be heard.
Six ICORN cities are taking part in the Shahrazad project: Barcelona, Brussels, Frankfurt, Norwich, Stockholm and Stavanger. But writers from every corner of the world are invited to contribute words.
The Shahrazad project will set in motion a transnational dynamic of sharing and exchanging new stories. It will reach out specifically to individuals and groups unfamiliar with traditional literary and cultural activities. It will focus especially on children and young people who, through educational programmes, creative workshops and digital story production, will experience both the receiving and production ends of the Stories for Life chain of communication.
Ultimately, the Shahrazad project aims to provide Europe with new, more open and sustainable narratives about itself. By opening up to human and artistic impulses from ‘outside', Europe can regain and revitalise some of its capital values: freedom, democracy and solidarity.
Shahrazad is a European Union Culture 2007: multi-annual co-operation project
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