Bey, Eyüpoğlu Cd. No:14
27010 Şahinbey/Gaziantep
Turkey
- Arts
- Heritage
- International/Cultural relations
Douzan Art and Culture is a non-profit association, has established by a group of Syrian and Turkish artists and cultural workers. We believe in Douzan Art and Culture in the importance of culture and arts in the life of societies especially in difficult times and crises, and their role in supporting these societies to face the social and economic difficulties. We work to provide these communities with the tools and spaces needed for free and creative expression, empowering them and building their capacity to express themselves to preserve their cultural identity and build bridges of communication and cultural dialogue with the surrounding communities to promote the values of freedom, equality, and non-discrimination.
Our vision is enabling Syrian refugees to enjoy and exercise their cultural, artistic and social rights without discrimination. Our mission is to provide the opportunity for Syrian refugees into practice and enjoy their cultural, artistic and social rights, to increase the Syrian and host communities' cultural and artistic capabilities, to help these communities to connect with each other as individuals and institutions and to support them to face the social and economic difficulties by providing them with creative tools. Our strategy focuses on the following aspects: • Art and culture for positive change. • Promoting independent culture and community participation. • Support human rights and the values of democracy and equality. • Strengthening the role of youth and women in society. • Spreading and practicing culture in partnership with society. • Supporting institutions, initiatives, and artists and providing them with services.
The main activities of our foundation are divided into three sections Section I: artistic and cultural support capacity building and training Section II: support artistic production and performance Section III: Supporting institutions, initiatives and artists and providing them with services
Through our work on how to discover a new art and culture model for refugees and host communities, through mixing the art and culture of both communities by doing experimental music, visual arts, and performing arts. In addition to distributing all of this knowledge through our projects in different cities, which could help to build in art and culture for both communities and renew and save their cultural heritage. We have determined social inclusion as one of our main focus areas. Thus, we believe that the outputs of our projects have presented a good example for any initiations and efforts who would like to increase participation, advance freedom of expression of immigrants via arts and culture. Also, our projects aim to break down the barriers between artists and creative individuals, by indicating that art as a tool is useful to wipe out prejudices.
Our work in Art and Culture built on sharing and partnership, and joining the ALF network will be a great opportunity to share our values and work, with our colleagues in the network and learn from them, and to partner together to create new creative methods in the work to rich the art and culture in our region.