KASED
Topics
Gender justice, Language rights, Cultural participation, Women in the arts
Disciplines
Music, Visual arts, Dance, Literature
KASED is a women-led association based in Diyarbakır, advocating for cultural access, gender equality, and artistic freedom in native languages, particularly Kurdish. Founded in 2019, it supports women artists through cultural programs that include workshops, performances, and community events in music, visual arts, folk dance, and literature. KASED actively challenges gender-based barriers in the arts and collaborates with NGOs, artists, and institutions to build solidarity-driven spaces of expression. Its work strengthens community participation by foregrounding local identity and enabling creative engagement among women and children.
Athens, Nea Ionia
Kilim
Yellow Brick, Khora Community Center and Rizes Lab are exploring women's migration stories in Athens community through artistic workshops.
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Athens, Nea Ionia
Kilim
vahahubs.org/hubs/kilim
The Kilim hub focuses on a hybrid narrative that blends postmemory and oral history through a feminist lens, emphasising women’s roles, daily experiences, and gendered perspectives. The project examines migration and urban history through oral narratives, inspired by a hydrofeminist approach that explores the connections between water, humans, and the environment. Activities include a "Herstory" workshop with migrant women and their descendants, community dinners where women from Nea Ionia and Kypseli share food memories, and an "Embodying Nostalgia" workshop that explores memory and pain through somatic practices. All activities will be documented for a publication of recipes, oral histories, poetry, and scores. Yellow Brick will coordinate the project, manage dissemination, and host workshops, while Rizes Lab will conduct workshops and research, and Khora will organise dinners, expand its archive, and coordinate outreach.
TRANSNATIONAL EXCHANGE IDEA
Jineika—from Jin (woman, life) in Kurdish and the Greek suffix -(e)ika denoting plurality and collectivity—brings together two groups of women artists from Amed and Athens for a research exchange grounded in feminist historiography. Through two field visits, participants will explore how women’s stories and struggles intersect across geographies, creating counter-archives that challenge patriarchal silences. In Athens, KASED will host a multilingual feminist storytelling workshop inspired by Kurdish oral traditions and the dengbêj practice, reinterpreting these narratives through a feminist lens. The Kilim hub will lead a durational workshop on counter-cartographies, engaging participants in embodied research—walking, dining, and listening—to reflect on the city as body and the body in the city. Together, these activities foster transnational solidarity and collective feminist memory.Jineika is created in collaboration with Kilim.
