The International Human Rights Art Movement announces it’s first IHRAF Festival: Queens, adding to its annual IHRAF Festival, December 8-14, 2025, at the Tank Theater in Manhattan. The IHRAF Festival uses creativity and beauty to fight for human rights and social justice, and fight against authoritarianism and division.  

IHRAF: Queens will highlight the talent and passion of Queens-based artists, representing the most diverse neighborhood in the world.  It involves performance blocks curated by the Queens Artist Connection/Hit the Lights Theater Company, Valerie Green/Dance Entropy and saraika Movement Collective, in addition to our curated performances.  There will be 27 performances in 5 performance blocks, including dance, theater, musical theater, spoken word, puppetry, etc.!

The International Human Rights Art Movement, founded at Dixon Place Theater (NY) in 2017 as the international Human Rights Art Festival, uses creative platforms (Festivals, IHRAM Press, African Secretariat etc.) to give voice to artists and issues around the world. We protect freedom of expression by highlighting those who might be suppressed or oppressed in their home countries.  We bring together all members of society, from artists in-exile and at risk; to activists on the front lines of the struggle for rights and justice; to creators working in all media; to national and international politicians, government agencies, social leaders and celebrities.  Creative engagement with all members of the society is the surest path toward positive change.

Theater, Music, Performance

Music, Theater, Dance, Poetry/Spoken Word, Musical Theater

Performance w/ live music, Dance, Theater/Performance, Comedy/Stand up