Freddy will speaks on artistic freedom in canada

Freddy Will Speaks on Artistic Freedom In Canada Toronto based rapper/author Freddy Will spoke on artistic freedom today by citing the city's NonDiscrimination Policy obligated on artists or creative performers who rely on the city for assistance. The 'Hiphop Kruzade' author mentioned that “they block or permit media exposure and financial assistance to or from performers who follow or do not follow this policy”. Since there are laws that govern crime in the community, another policy that turns one artist away while welcoming some other is a bias policy. If the artist turned away had broken the law simply turning them away will be a far cry from news of the law they broke.

1.toronto.ca describes the policy as one that “prohibits discrimination and harassment and protects the right to be free of hate activity, based on age, ancestry, citizenship, creed (religion), colour, disability, ethnic origin, family status, gender identity, level of literacy, marital status, place of origin, membership in a union or staff association, political affiliation, race, receipt of public assistance, record of offenses, sex, sexual orientation or any other personal characteristics by or within the organization”. The artist who recently release his third album with a third accompanying book made the argument that, though the policy seems fair, it does not protect artistic freedom or the freedom of expression in an activist inspired art. "If the law is not being broken, an artist should never have to tame their creative expression in order to gain financial assistance or media exposure" The author made the argument that this “policy” curbs artistic freedom. He argued that an artists' creative influence maintains social balance of power between policy makers, corporations and the public. He said, “activism can be stirred up from different opinions” therefore the Non-Discrimination Policy should apply to businesses and institutions, not entertainers and artists who should be free to make provocative satire, comic, lyrics or creative art based on the social climate and how the public relates to it; not what makes law makers and companies comfortable. “No policy should ever prevent an artist from the light of day on grounds of discrimination within their art. It should be up to the fans or

the public to make that call or the artist critics. In a way it is saying the public are not mature enough choose correctly so an appointed board will make decision on what art they are exposed to".

Freddy Will uses other resources to maintain his artistic freedom without compromise and argued that artists who lack their own platform could become media outcasts if they refuse to compromise their artistic content. He said freedom is useful against injustice and the freedom to go against the grain if the artist wished to do so artistically. He argued that policies like the Non-Discrimination Policy discriminates against some artists while asserting to protect discrimination of others. This shows that those policy makers think they are better than some artists and performers. He explained that it is wrong to come to the conclusion that those who name call racism, police brutality, domestic violence, mortification of masculinity, outrageous laws that marginalizes small social groups and financial disenfranchisement of ordinary people are trouble makers.

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