Tell Your Story
August - November 2023
ADIYAMAN
Within the scope of this project, the aim was to reach out to 1000 children between the ages of 5-13 in Adıyaman, one of the provinces most affected by the destruction of the earthquake by staging the play titled 'Eco Solar Journey' for 2 months. Some of the episodes are interactive in the play which is written and staged by Mordem Sanat. The play is about environmental pollution, global warming and the effects of toxic gases explaining the benefits of recycling and upcycling and the possibility of a nature-life-centred approach from children's perspective. There was also artistic workshops for children that will have a healing and therapeutic effect. In this context, puppet making workshops were organized. Children were able to play with puppets they made using their imagination and recycled materials, and they were accompanied by facilitators/theatre actors. This puppet role play enabled them to express their experiences and feelings they could not directly express. In these children workshops, it was aimed to provide psychological relief for the children, as well as to identify their spiritual and psychological status and to provide the necessary support by contacting relevant institutions (psychological support units).
Mordem Art
Mordem Art and Ecological Life Association, which is established in 2017 as a collective with artists carrying out sustainable works in different branches of art in the region, advocates everyone's right to access and disseminate cultural and artistic activities, with the belief that the protection and development of the diversity of cultural expressions is a human right. Besides providing a venue contributing to the field of culture and arts in Diyarbakır, where regional artists and art lovers can access cultural and artistic activities and realize their projects, it also offers workshops in different branches of art (cinema, theatre, music, drama, dance, plastic arts, sculpture, etc.) and provides training opportunities. It organizes screenings, performances, panel discussion sessions and seminars, international solo festivals, film festivals, exhibitions and concerts in many fields of art in order to recognize, integrate and communise the art disciplines of different cultures and create a collective memory.
Mordem Art is an independent art complex site with a convertible theatre/cinema hall and it has a capacity of 160 people and a backstage, dance studio, music rooms, sculpture workshop, working office and a foyer. It emphasizes interdisciplinary communication and the importance of establishing production relations by producing joint works. It uses the production relationship between branches of art as a tool to reach the masses. Mordem Art argues that art is the most qualified way to achieve the ideal of creating a peaceful, conscious, democratic, fair and non-self-centred society founded on teachings that protect nature, does not alienate anyone because of their identity or orientation. It also argues that ethnic and cultural differences are the riches of society. It fosters a pluralistic consciousness against social polarization and discrimination.
This page is published on 7 December 2023.
