art and culture

11:14

Painter Yekateryna Grygorenko aims to show the ugly, wrong, and disgusting aesthetics to the audiences, not the beauty and truth that they have been taught. By rejecting the reality we live in, she looks for a new reality within the frame of beauty coming to an end. She focuses on death, birth, pain, lust, disgust, and desire. “The needlework in most of my works creates a life by referring to the sanctity of woman, mother, birth, and reproduction and I build my own game in it,” she said.

13:46

“The woman challenged Yeşilçam’s unwritten rules,” said Sibel Öz, the author of “An Anti-Star in the Yeşilcam Actors-Star System: Adile Naşit” book, to describe Adile Naşit, “Adile Naşit tried to change the white, Turkish, Sunni and male cinema rules with her extraordinary stand and by normalizing the others. Despite the naive mother roles she performed, her story is actually the story of how she defeated the star system in her period and how she followed her own way step by step.

14:30

Solin Osé is a painter in NE Syria. She focuses on migration, women, and children in her paintings. “If you keep your hope alive, your dream will definitely come true,” she said.

12:57

The first training program titled, “RadioJin Podcast Training and Production Project for Women” will be held on June 19 with the support of Kültür için Alan (Space for Culture). The training program includes many topics such as the reflections of gender-based discrimination in language used by media, how an alternative language can be used while producing podcasts, what is happening in the world of podcasts and how to use the applications for producing contents.

09:47

2021 Clara Zetkin Honorary Award for social commitment goes to Kurdish jailed politician Gültan Kışanak.

13:00

Young women in Syria have played an active role in politics and art. They have rebuilt their lives with free art amidst the destruction caused by the Syrian war. Some of them are theatre players, some guitarists, some violinists… Beraa Hesen is one of them. The dream of Beraa is to develop Kurdish theater and make it known all around the world and perform street theatre.

14:49

Write Nexem Necar shows the Iraqi cuisine culture in her first cookbook titled “Cooking is my passion”. She is now working on her second cookbook. Nexem Necar told us that there are not only the recipes of Iraqi foods but also from around the world in her first book and that she will focus on herbs in her second book.

10:44

Mural painter Ayat Xelîl Amûrî paints murals about the culture and sufferings of Palestinians in Libya’s Benghazi city.

12:51

Tunisian theater artist and human rights activist Zainab Farhat died last night after a long struggle with cancer.

11:39

“Maryam Al-Azra” was first celebrated by Luis Resholi 237 years ago in Italy. This tradition has been continued by Syriac women living in NE Syria. Women wear a blue dress and don’t eat meat, yogurt, cheese, and fragrant foods for two months, in May and August. 90 –year-old Syriac Ediba David follows this tradition. She told us that they pray in these months to have peaceful, quiet, and happy days.

10:27

In the previous days, 68 people, mostly children were killed in the girls’ school bomb attack in Kabul. Women from many countries have also reacted to the attack. “Conscientious people will always remember this attack,” said Afghan painter Tahereh Amini, who painted children killed in the attack.

12:14

Painter Berkîn Şex Mihemed draws everything symbolizing her people on stones. She makes a living by painting stones.

09:22

Singer Sezen Aksu released a written statement on her website to express her support to villagers protesting a stone quarry project of the pro-government Cengiz Construction Company in the İkizdere district of Rize province.

17:01

Author and playwright Emine Işınsu Öksüz died at 83. The author wrote many novels and articles for many magazines and newspapers.

09:38

“Kadın İşçi (Woman Worker) is an online newspaper published by women workers with the slogan “For all kinds of our labor situations everywhere.” The women workers have prepared an application booklet about many issues such as methods of combating violence and sexual harassment, “We will organize together to make our invisible labor visible, to achieve our rights, to reach women workers and to allow women workers to reach us.”

10:24

Palestinian Suha El Muhammed lived in many countries of the Middle East and she started painting with the courage she received from her journalist mother. She has painted women of the Middle East to support women’s struggle, “My heroes are women,” Suha said.

16:21

Women in Beirut held a commemorative event to honor the memory of feminist writer Nawal El Saadawi, who died last month. Women sang songs, drew the picture of Nawal El Saadawi on the street walls within the scope of the events. “We know we lost her but her ideas and inspiring struggle will live with us forever,” said the women.

13:13

Most of us probably read, hear the Arabian Nights. Nasreen Yahya’s designs make women live in the Arabian Nights. She told us the stories of the kaftans (caftans) she designed, especially inspired by the cultures of women in the Middle East.

16:02

Algeria's Culture Minister Malika Bendouda has announced that an exhibition of the Tuareg people’s queen Tin Hinan has been held at the Bardo National Museum.

15:22

Two books of 16-year-old Meys Bedran, who is very good at writing but has difficulty expressing herself while speaking, have been published. Meys Bedran addressed her peers and said, “Don’t limit yourselves to studying at university to achieve your goals, look for your talents. There is no limit to creativity.”