Viacheslav
Samonov
Viacheslav Samonov
Human rights defender
QueerBase
Biography
Viacheslav Samonov is a lawyer and human rights defender working with various NGOs in Russia. He previously worked for the Nochlezhka charity on homelessness and statelessness of former USSR citizens. He is a former member of the public monitoring commission in St Petersburg, supervising conditions in detention centres. He also focuses on civil and LGBT+ rights, citizenship and discrimination issues.
Country
Speaker session
GRAND OPENING – ART PERFORMANCE
Music Moves – music performance
- Protecting democracy and civic space in Europe
Forum stage / Festsaal - livestream
Cesár Sampson will explore the power of music to unite people. He will be performing two songs: ‘Lazy Suit’ and ‘Nobody but You’.
Superar and singer Cesár Sampson will open the Fundamental Rights Forum 2024 with a music performance.
This dance performance by 6e Sens Companies and DK-BEL features dancers with and without disabilities. It conveys the values of sharing, togetherness, kindness and respect and explore the feeling of beauty, with the aim of understanding how it can be a conduit connecting personal emotion to collective emotion, and even universal emotion. Beauty, as poet Charles Baudelaire saw it, is linked to the bizarre, to strangeness, chaos, pain and the fragility of beings. The choreographic piece ‘C'est BEAU!’ presents a unique, gentle vision of beauty. The performance will also feature in the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
ART PERFORMANCE
Cesár Sampson – live performance
Forum stage / Festsaal - livestream
Singer Cesár Sampson will talk about the power of music to unite people and sing his 2018 Eurovision song "Nobody but You".
Cesár Sampson
Singer
Biography
Cesár Sampson is an Austrian singer who represented his country at the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest with ‘Nobody but You’.
Speaker session
GRAND OPENING – ART PERFORMANCE
Music Moves – music performance
- Protecting democracy and civic space in Europe
Forum stage / Festsaal - livestream
Cesár Sampson will explore the power of music to unite people. He will be performing two songs: ‘Lazy Suit’ and ‘Nobody but You’.
Superar and singer Cesár Sampson will open the Fundamental Rights Forum 2024 with a music performance.
This dance performance by 6e Sens Companies and DK-BEL features dancers with and without disabilities. It conveys the values of sharing, togetherness, kindness and respect and explore the feeling of beauty, with the aim of understanding how it can be a conduit connecting personal emotion to collective emotion, and even universal emotion. Beauty, as poet Charles Baudelaire saw it, is linked to the bizarre, to strangeness, chaos, pain and the fragility of beings. The choreographic piece ‘C'est BEAU!’ presents a unique, gentle vision of beauty. The performance will also feature in the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
ART PERFORMANCE
Cesár Sampson – live performance
Forum stage / Festsaal - livestream
Singer Cesár Sampson will talk about the power of music to unite people and sing his 2018 Eurovision song "Nobody but You".
Katharine Sarikakis
University Professor, Director Media Governance Research Lab
Universty of Vienna
Biography
Professor Katharine Sarikakis is the Director of the Media Governance Research Lab, University of Vienna. Her extensive work on media governance from a human rights perspective includes global trasnformations in privacy and informational and cultural rights. She consults with international organisations from a solution driven research approach regularly.
Country
Speaker session
GRAND OPENING – ART PERFORMANCE
Music Moves – music performance
- Protecting democracy and civic space in Europe
Forum stage / Festsaal - livestream
Cesár Sampson will explore the power of music to unite people. He will be performing two songs: ‘Lazy Suit’ and ‘Nobody but You’.
Superar and singer Cesár Sampson will open the Fundamental Rights Forum 2024 with a music performance.
This dance performance by 6e Sens Companies and DK-BEL features dancers with and without disabilities. It conveys the values of sharing, togetherness, kindness and respect and explore the feeling of beauty, with the aim of understanding how it can be a conduit connecting personal emotion to collective emotion, and even universal emotion. Beauty, as poet Charles Baudelaire saw it, is linked to the bizarre, to strangeness, chaos, pain and the fragility of beings. The choreographic piece ‘C'est BEAU!’ presents a unique, gentle vision of beauty. The performance will also feature in the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
ART PERFORMANCE
Cesár Sampson – live performance
Forum stage / Festsaal - livestream
Singer Cesár Sampson will talk about the power of music to unite people and sing his 2018 Eurovision song "Nobody but You".