SMART CONTENT BOX 3

Under the title Beyond What Drifts Us Apart, the Mahalla Festival 2023 took place in Malta. The 10-minute video reflects the work in progress of the implementation of the artist’s projects into local communities and the experiences of the artists.

Malta is the only EU country that bans abortion in general. Now a debate has broken out as to whether there should be any easing.

The Turkish cultural scene and justice. In the so-called Gezi trial, Osman Kavala was sentenced to life imprisonment and with him seven other artists were sentenced to 18 years in prison. “Tracks” meets musicians like Fungistanbul and 2/5 BZ as well as the artist Zehra Doğan. arte, Tracks, July 2022   No related posts.

The sale of Christian cultural properties must be prevented, the Armenian-Turkish MP Garo Paylan called on the Turkish culture minister just a few weeks ago. ORF – Orientierung 6.2.2022 Related posts: Returnees at the Nineveh Plains A museum for the Musa Dağh

Ramadan in Europa – fast, pray, keep your distance. ARTE RE reportage from Istanbul, Paris and Karlsruhe during the Ramadan 2021 in times of COVID-19 by Thomas Büsch, Lorenz Findeisen, Sabine Küper-Büsch and Juliane Tutein. Watch it at ARTE, May 13th (French and German) No related posts.

The number of feminicides is skyrocketing in Turkey. Alert women’s rights activists: three women are murdered every day. 90 percent from their husbands.

Istanbul’s landmark, the world-famous Hagia Sophia, has been a mosque again this summer. For years the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been gradually correcting the secular reforms of the state founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. Erdogan’s ideologically motivated reshaping of Istanbul calls critics on the scene. ORF – Kulturmontag, 9.11.2020 No related posts.

In Vakıflı, the last Armenian village in Turkey, there has been a special museum since early summer. It is carefully attempted to establish a culture of remembrance. At the same time, the people try to maintain their Armenian traditions and document them in the museum.

Hasankeyf, located in the Turkish border area with Iran, Iraq and Syria, is at least 12,000 years old and thus one of the oldest settlements of mankind. Turkey is building a gigantic dam here, the place will sink into the associated reservoir. And below the reservoir, the wetlands of the Tigris will dry up.

The island of Cyprus has been divided since 1974. Salpy Eskidjian Weiderud is the initiator of an interfaith dialogue that aims to overhaul the almost fifty-year political division of the Mediterranean island on a religious level.

A huge water reservoir is created in the South of Turkey. The photographer Mehmet Kaçmaz documented the last days of the settlement in Hasankeyf.

The protest movement in the geese mountains in Turkey.

The island of Cyprus has been divided for 45 years. Local musicians, however, are crossing the south-easternmost border of the EU. Monsieur Doumani is an internationally acclaimed Greek-Cypriot musician trio on the island of Cyprus. Thirty years after the dissolution of the Iron Curtain in Europe, the band musically defies the division of the island. […]

On the occasion of the re-elction in Istanbul and the beginning of the court case on June 24 – 25 against Osman Kavala and 15 others, the program explores the independent exhibition center DEPO and its current exhibition Shared Sacred Sites.

While ISIS’s territorial caliphate in Iraq and Syria has come to an end, the threat presented by the group and others like it is alive and well. Tens of thousands of ISIS fighters, both foreign and local, as well as their families and children, are now in the hands of the Syrian Democratic Forces and the Iraqi military and security services, presenting an immediate and pressing challenge.

Art and Culture in Conflict Areas ORF – Kulturmontag, 29.4.2019 7 min The artist Adalet R. Garmiany and his art initiative ArtRole is working on a new project: a documentary about Mosul after ISIS. One of the largest ArtRole’s project in recent years. ‘Mosul My Home’ Is a project addressing the hope and dreams of people […]

After ISIS is expelled the first Christian communities are returning to their homes at the villiage of Tel Skuf in Northern Iraq.

The largest airport of the world represents the gigantomania of the New Turkey by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Its manifestation in the cityscape is an artistically barely developed field. The artist Murat Germen photographically fixes the urban transformation processes of Istanbul and analyzes it with digital montages. The focus is also on the unmasking of […]

The Mahalla Festival in Malta took place between Nov 17 and Nov 25 with the participation of more than 60 artists, writers, filmmakers, cultural workers and initiatives from 20 countries.

The Turkish association diyalog and the Sustainable Design Collective, Malta, are organizing the next video workshop between June 18 and 26 in Malta in cooperation with the Sudanese Migration Association, Spark15, Rima and the Foundation for Support and Shelter to Migrants. This workshop is part of the Mahalla festival organized by diyalog. The video workshops […]