EGEHUB
Topics
Migration memories and storytelling, collective history and coexistence
Disciplines
migration, arts, memory, cultural heritage and preservation
HUB IDEA
EGEHUB is a collaborative initiative that explores migration memory and cultural resilience through art-based research and community engagement in Alçıtepe (Kirte) and İmbros (Gökçeada). Led by the Association for Migration Research (GAR), Kirte School, and the Duvarlar Bile Biliyor Initiative, EGEHUB creates spaces for dialogue, remembrance, and artistic resistance against forgetting.In 2025, EGEHUB unfolded as a two-phase program combining reflection, creation, and public engagement. The first phase featured an online panel series co-organized with GAR, bringing together artists and scholars — Mert Koçak, Gülay Uğur Göksel, Gencer Özcan, and Besim Can Zırh — to explore transnational memory, displacement, and the politics of remembering.
The second phase took place in İmbros and Alçıtepe, where storytelling, music, culinary workshops, and art residencies turned everyday spaces into living archives. The residency culminated in the exhibition “To Whom Does the Wind Open Its Door?” at Kirte School, gathering artists Dilek Yaman, Ferhat Tunç, Meli R. Öztürk, Zelikha Z. Shoja, and Büşra Aydagün around shared themes of borders, belonging, and memory.
EGEHUB continues with a podcast series and a GAR publication, The Wind Opens the Door, expanding its living archive of voices, sounds, and reflections that weave art, community, and remembrance into an ongoing dialogue across the Aegean.
Istanbul
The Association for Migration Research
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Istanbul
The Association for Migration Research
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GAR – Association for Migration Research was founded on September 21, 2017, with the aim of conducting research on migration, taking part in the multidisciplinary migration research, supporting migration research and migration researchers, contributing to the dissemination of knowledge produced in these researches, and enabling professional solidarity, communication, collaboration, and interaction among the migration scholars. They also aim at providing solutions to scientific, institutional, and ethical problems that the migration researchers face and raising public awareness regarding the problems un/documented migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees confront.
Çanakkale
Kirte School
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Çanakkale
Kirte School
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Kirte School, established in 2023, is an independent art initiative that emerged from the repurposing of an old-closed village school in Alçıtepe, Çanakkale, for artists and local residents. To sustain this space, we are working in collaboration with the village administration. The school consists of a two-story building. On the upper floor, one of the four classrooms has been converted into a workshop, another into an artist’s accommodation room, and the remaining two have been designated for exhibitions, and a garden. Artists stay in the village for a set period and use the school as their studio.
Gökçeada
Duvarlar bile Biliyor
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Gökçeada
Duvarlar bile Biliyor
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As Duvarlar Bile Biliyor initiative, established in 2020, explores the migration memory of Imbros (Gökçeada) through art, music, and community-based activities. By uniting local and international artists,current inhabitants, and musicians, we foster an interdisciplinary dialogue on displacement, cultural transformation, and collective memory. The program features workshops, exhibitions, music and dance performances, and culinary experiences reflecting the island’s multicultural past and present. Through found-object installations, Greek dance workshops, and oral history panels, we highlight deep connections between people, places, and migration. A photography exhibition documenting Imbros’ transformation serves as a visual anchor, ensuring migration stories are preserved and shared.
