Diyarbakır Arts Center, in partnership with Arts&Projects Deventer, TAMTAM objektentheater, and Çanakkale DADA Neşeli Fikirler Atölyesi (Joyful Ideas Workshop), organized ‘The Secret of Stories: Object Theater with Children and a Visual Research’ program in Diyarbakır December 2-6, 2014, and in Çanakkale December 8-11, 2014. The program brought together artists and individuals and organizations working with children from Diyarbakır, Çanakkale, and Deventer/Netherlands, introducing young artists and civil society volunteers to the seminal practices of participatory art and object theater while exploring new possibilities of artistic production and collaboration in the future. The project, which aims to reflect together on different ways of storytelling with/for children by utilizing everyday objects and sought ways to carry the outputs of this process to the field, attracted significant attention in both Diyarbakır and Çanakkale.
The first part of the program that was held in Diyarbakır, organized by Diyarbakır Arts Center in collaboration with artist Barış Seyitvan, kicked off with a presentation titled ‘Community Art’ by Dutch artist Lies Kortenhorst at Diyarbakır Arts Center December 2, 2014. As part of the presentation, Kortenhorst shared her project experiences in the Netherlands that bring art and everyday life together based on the needs of various social groups through participatory art. Following the program, which continued with a participatory art workshop and a performance and workshop by TAMTAM objektentheater, the Dutch project team visited the Yazidi camps in Diyarbakır and conducted a short object theater with the children there. The Çanakkale part of the program started with a presentation titled ‘Community Art’ by Lies Kortenhorst at the Çanakkale House of Authors and Artists December 8, 2014, followed by a meeting with the Çanakkale Biennale team.
The Secret of Stories project was realized in collaboration with Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality City Theater, DADA Neşeli Fikirler Atölyesi (Joyful Ideas Workshop) and Çanakkale Biennial My Friend, with the contributions of the Netherlands Performing Arts Fund NL, Deventer Municipality, Community Arts Lab XL, Alternatif Üretim Derneği (Alternative Production Association), Diyarbakır Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Turan Furniture, Çanakkale Municipality, and Staras Music.
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