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LabHub

Topics

theatre performance, festivities, Kurdish culture

Disciplines

theatre

Hub Idea

Mordem Sanat, Şaneşîn Performance, and Nîsk Huner have come together as a unified hub with a common mission: the preservation of Kurdish culture, language, and traditional forms. Their collaborative programme focuses on researching, documenting, and revitalising traditional Kurdish festivals, such as Bûka Baranê, Newroz, and others, creating an archive and a photo-video documentary. The diverse target audience includes disadvantaged groups, youth, women, artists, and culture enthusiasts. This initiative not only safeguards cultural heritage but also promotes community engagement and open dialogue, making it a vital resource for cultural preservation and public involvement.

Diyarbakır

Mordem Art and Ecological Life Association

Diyarbakır

Mordem Art and Ecological Life Association

www.instagram.com/mordemsanat

Mordem Art provides workshops and trainings in different art branches, organises film screenings, performances, panels and seminars, international solo festivals, film festivals, exhibitions, and concerts in many fields of art to recognise, fuse, unite and create a collective memory of art disciplines of different cultures. Mordem Art works on issues such as the Protection of Cultural Heritage, Supporting Disadvantaged Children, Eco-Art Studies, Kurdish Film Days and aims to continue these activities. Mordem draws its inspiration from the past and its motivation from being contemporary and up-to-date, while seeking ways to reintroduce vanishing cultural forms back into society. Mordem is an independent art complex with a 160-seat transformable theatre-cinema hall, backstage, dance studio, music classrooms, sculpture workshop and foyer.

Mardin

Şaneşîn Performance

Mardin

Şaneşîn Performance

www.instagram.com/sanesinperformans/

Şaneşin Performance aims to contribute to the development of Kurdish theatre, to strengthen the social and cultural function of theatre, and to understand better and explain Kurdish culture and society from an anthropological perspective. It is formed by a team of 15 experienced and talented people in Kurdish theatre. This team is a dynamic and passionate community working to contribute to a better understanding of Kurdish culture and society and the preservation of cultural heritage.

Batman

Nîsk Huner

Batman

Nîsk Huner

www.instagram.com/niskhuner/

Founded in 2018, Nisk Huner is an initiative working in the field of culture and arts that produces projects such as Kurdish web series, documentaries, programs, theatre plays in the digital field. Our series titled "Îşev" published on Youtube has been watched more than 20 million times, and our theatre play titled "Seyrana Li Çeper" has met with a total of 4 thousand audiences in Batman, Diyarbakır, Siirt, Van, Mardin, Şanlıurfa, İzmir and Ankara. Nisk Huner, which continues to work as a traveling troupe due to economic reasons in the current period, aims to open a cultural center in Batman and has started its work. Nisk Huner aims to raise individuals who develop themselves in every aspect in the field of art, to produce art projects collectively, to protect the right of access to culture and arts and to encourage youth participation.

Expectations from Transnational Exchange

Transnational partnerships provide us with different perspectives and experiences in preserving cultural heritage and revitalizing traditional festival forms, while helping to make activities more diverse and inclusive. It can also ensure continuity by developing sustainability-oriented strategies among partners, allowing traditional festivities to have more impact in global context. For example, while the arrival of spring is celebrated in various ways in different cultures, these celebrations also have similar aspects. These similarities can provide important opportunities for international cooperation and cultural heritage conservation, allowing people around the world to come together and celebrate cultural diversity. A partnership involving different cultures and perspectives results in having a richer and more diverse cultural perspective. Additionally, transnational partners can share with us their research resources and experience in the preservation and revitalization of cultural heritage in their countries, thus empowering us to contribute to the preservation of cultural heritage targeted in the hub partnership.