Anna Marazuela Kim Phd

Keynote Speech Oslo World 2022

Opening night at the Nobel Peace Center 31 October

Culture as a Human Right

Culture and the arts have long been viewed as the privilege of the elite: the province of those who inhabit the top tier of society, and therefore secondary to more fundamental human needs . What if we were to challenge this hierarchy: flip the paradigm, while also preserving this high valuation? How might culture be championed as the very ground of our human existence - as well as the element that enables us to soar, transcend and transform it? This talk charts a global shift towards recognizing what we all know to be true: that culture and creative expression - far from an elite value - is a fundamental human right: crucial to who we are and also, more importantly - to who we might become.