Founded by Valérie DEVY and Zeynep OKYAY, Amalsia is a creative agency based in Istanbul, focused on cooperation process in art, youth and non-formal education sectors, between cultural operators from Europe, Turkey and EU’s neighboring countries. Amalsia directs its action towards equal access to information and resources in different languages, innovative project management, and guidance for cultural operators in their strategies.

We aim to allow, through arts experiences, different kind of audience to enrich their skills, life experience, world understanding, human interaction.

Considering the increase of the social, economic and cultural divisions in many countries, that create situations of failure, marginalization and risk among the youth, the partners of the project "Musical post cards" wish to act and support teenagers facing difficulties on the personal level or with their environment (disabilities, social difficulties, intercultural conflicts).

These youngsters are not just a vulnerable audience in the phase of self-construction, but also a rich human resource for their desire of independence and their life experience. By our youth exchange project, we aim to promote better understanding and appropriation of their surrounding and reciprocal life, in their constraints and difficulties as well as in their potentials. Music or dance listening and practicing will contribute in this exploration, developing transposable skills and acquisitions facilitating their learning and interaction within social and cultural distant groups.

The exchange will be an opportunity to initiate new learning process for young people and to value the importance of artistic and cultural practices in term of intercultural experience.