Partner organizations

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Each partner organization has been very active with diverse projects dealing with cultural and youth issues, and audiences with difficulties, aiming to promote the interaction among young people and their neighborhood, their family, and contributing to a better socialization, a better engagement in the different processes of learning or developing critical sense.​

Coordinator

(France)​

Experience & activities​

Coordination of a European project implemented with the support of Erasmus + program "Mobility of youth workers".

Participants: 40 students, teachers and youth workers from France, Greece, Turkey and Tunisia.

The partnerships involved institutional and independent organizations: 6 universities, local authorities, 3 NGO, 3 national cultural institutions, and individuals (artist, instrument makers), and it has been a space for sharing educative methods, cultural heritage, creativity, understanding the institutional environment, in order to overcome usual habits and work methods.

Collective work, peer-to-peer learning and personal initiative were the core of the work. 

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August 2014​

DECEMBER 2014​

Office settled in Istanbul (Turkey)

Initiation of a new creative organization based in Turkey called Amalsia.

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French partner organization

“La petite troupe” is a music education project existing since 2011, involving children with difficulties from a public secondary school, coordinated by Why Notes. This group will be one of the 4 groups participating in Music Post Card project.

Why Notes as long time experience is artist international tour management.

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Activities & experience​

Founded in 2010 by a collective of 2 artists, 2 culture managers and a curator, Pasaj is an independent art space, located in Tarlabasi, a multicultural popular neighborhood of Istanbul, open to local inhabitants as well as local and international artists.

The target audience of the activities is mostly the children of the neighborhood coming from very different cultural and social background, whose family had to face displacement inside Turkey or from other countries. A large range of the children stops going to school quite early in order to get married or start working around the age of 16.

Because of gentrification of other districts, located closed to Tarlabasi, many artists live around.

The activities of Pasaj aims to facilitate the connection between locals and artists, through art project implemented though a close collaboration with the families, artist, shop keepers…

The artistic activities are considered as a way to share the know-how of local families, and the artists but also a way to share their vision about the transformation of the neighborhood at an urbanism level, social level, professional level.

For the local children, all activities and meeting with artists are a way to allow them to increase their communication skills, learning skills, hand-craft technics, and be more familiar with contemporary art.

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Activities & experience​

Among a large number of projects, “61 m of Kahya bey street” has a direct connection with “Musical post card” project.

In this project implemented from 2014 to 2016, the children learned some journalism and filming technics in order to film and interview craftsmen, inhabitants or shopkeepers, and explore their vision about living and working in Tarlabasi. Their work was presented in Istanbul and Berlin.

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Bosnian partner organisation

The Association for Culture and Art CRVENA was founded on the 8th of March 2010 in Sarajevo. Founders of CRVENA are artists, musicians, curators, architects, engineers, cookers, economists, journalists, human rights and cultural workers, workers and activists.

CRVENA hold art and activism as aesthetic, social and political tools with high potential for mobilization and social transformation. All our activities are founded on researches that look at practices, actors and relations which condition and define context and processes, and determine the scope and limits of participation.

In the past two years the organization has grown both in people and activities and managed to engage broader public and open different questions and debates on under-discussed issues of common concern.

CRVENA is now a collective of 8 women and men sharing many years of professional experience in areas such as women's rights, feminist activism and feminist art, as well as in fields of social research, teaching and education, legal counseling, consulting, digital media production.

CRVENA is now a platform for different experimental ideas with strong focus on process and community involvement. Our mandate is to act as transformers and mind triggers and to offer different and more critical ideas on the world around us and the world in which we wish to live in.

They use collaborative practices and trans-disciplinary approach in all their initiatives. They aim to be as horizontal as possible in decision making relying on the feminist concept of the “power with”. Our strategies engage art and culture as tools for radical and critical re-examination of commonly accepted ideas and perspectives over political, social and economic relations and realities in BIH, region and beyond.  

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During last 5 years of its existence Crvena  developed  different  programs, projects and activities. Crvena have organizied a number of exhibitions, debates, art shows and performances in different formats, our member artists and their art have traveled the world, and their art is part of the worldwide university curricula. All of them received prestigious awards for their work and involvement. 

They have set up a new methodological framework for interactive contemporary art exhibition The Living Archive () and organizing exhibitions in Zagreb, Ljubljana, Sarajevo, Belgrade, Vienna, Stockholm, Zurich as well as curated 54th  edition  of  the international exhibition October Salon in 2013 in Belgrade. The Living Archive set up a platform of regional as well as international artist inspired to produce political engaged art and content together with academics, activists and cultural workers. They have produced exhibitions locally and internationally. They produced short videos, documentary films, radio shows, websites, online archives and other digital and print formats. 

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Activities & experience​

Terra Musica was designed in 2011 in order to promote cooperation between professionals in European and neighboring countries (Mediterranean region, Turkey, Caucasus), in the field of art and education, especially in music and dance sectors, in order to promote diversity and accessibility in educative methods and youth work. ​​

Terra Musica is an interface for cultural international cooperation, based in France and Turkey, specialized on music sectors and youth work, concerning:

Education, transmission & new audience

Social & cultural entrepreneurship - Local policies

Instrument making

The objective is to enrich music environment in rural and urban societies, with a particular attention on:

long term approach

large circulation and access to music experience and knowledge, especially for disadvantaged children

creativity, free expression and cultural diversity in art education projects

establishment of spaces for crisis or conflict regulation concerning youth and art 

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Why Notes is a private company, designed in 2015, based in France (Niort). It aims to promote and strengthen new practices in cultural sectors and international exchange or cooperation, through a professional approach especially at legal and administrative level.

The activities implemented can be:

Expert & consultant services

Live performance production

Culture and diversity promotion

Event management

International cooperation project

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Turkish partner organisation