Together, we can make an impact!
Your donation will support such book projects as Iranian Women Speak and Her Rights, Our Stories (African women); Direct Action support to artists-at-risk from Zimbabwe, Uganda, Egypt and other locales; publishing unknown, passionate writers from Libya, Malawi, Bulgaria, Russia, Yemen and other countries around the world; our podcast to hear the voices and stories of artists putting their lives at risk to write a poem or sing a song; our work with tomorrow’s leaders today, through youth programming; our awards to highlight and pay exceptional and unknown writers, and using creativity and beauty as a soul force to help heal the world!
Your support can make a huge difference in helping us become a more impactful and unique agent for positive social change, based in the power of beauty and open-hearted engagement.
The International Human Rights Art Movement is a 501c3 non-profit organization
The International Human Rights Art Festival pays all of the artists we work with! While it might seem like a little bit, the $50 we pay each of our artists around the world can go a very long way.
To give some context, here are the monthly minimum wages in countries where we often send money:
Nigeria: $48
Cameroon: $73
Bangladesh: $113
Egypt: $138
Nepal: $142
Zimbabwe: $150
Kazakhstan: $181
India: $215
What does your money do?
$25 supports Internet for one of our African team for two months.
$50 pays a writer, often for their fist time.
$100 supports the work of our Youth Fellows.
$250 pays one of our anthology editors around the world.
$500 supports an artist-at-risk from Algeria to Uganda.
$1000 pays for one of our podcasts
$5000 allows you to create a literary award in honor of a loved one.
$10,000supports the publication of one of our international anthologies.
$15,000 supports a full weekend of the IHRAF Festival — with the name of one of your loved ones attached.
$25,000 allows you to include the name of a loved one in the full week IHRAF Festival in NYC
$50,000 allows you to work with our team to develop programming around and curate the work for an issue of your choice — either an Interim performance event in NYC or book anthology.
$100,000 allows you to participate as curator/builder in our full week IHRAF Festival!
Our Flagship Festival
This week-long advocacy-art festival brings together human rights art in all media, raising awareness of social concerns. The week includes over 150+ artists in 40+ performances in all media. Your donation ensures that all artists are paid for their work and their activism. The next International Human Rights Art Festival is currently scheduled for December 6-12, 2021 at the Wild Project Theater in Brooklyn, New York.
IHRAF Publishes
Our publication features writers from around the world whose work is tough, beautiful, vulnerable and focused on creatively working toward the common good. We have published a series of more than 100 works total from more than 25 countries, weekly in 2019 and 2020. We are a Pushcart Prize Nominating Literary Journal.