Mordem Art Center was founded in Diyarbakır approximately 4 years ago and has been carrying out important work to increase the accessibility of art since then. The most striking feature of the center is that every event is returned to children in the villages as a game and activity.

Barış Işık, one of the Mordem Art Coordinators, explained this creative process and the story of the center’s establishment for Şoperêç: “We want children far from art to connect with art.”

Bringing art to children: Interaction through play

The theater, music, dance and narrative-based events held at Mordem are taken outside the city center and brought to children living in villages. These events are usually transformed into a game format and direct interaction is established with children.

Barış Işık states that children who do not have the chance to meet art, especially in rural areas, develop their imaginations and begin to discover their own ways of expression thanks to this.

Carrying the narrative tradition to the future

Mordem Art not only connects with modern art forms, but also with the Kurdish narrative tradition. Fairy tales, stories and pieces of oral culture are reinterpreted with today’s understanding of art and passed on to children and young people.

Art is everywhere and for everyone

Barış Işık and Mordem Art Center believe that art should not be limited to the city, but should be a means of emotion and expression, especially for children. This artistic journey, which spreads from village to village, from child to child, shapes not only the present but also the future.