Kamer Hatun Mahallesi Hammalbaşı Sokak Üstündağ İş Merkezi No: 14/ 139 Galatasaray - Beyoğlu , 34433
Istanbul/
Turkey
- Arts
*To support art and culture activities in regions where social and cultural life has been damaged or reanimate these activities in regions where they have been weakened because of natural disasters, war, terror…
*Experiences on/about different groups have shown that creative activities are powerful means of communication while establishing relationships or restoring injured relations with/among all kinds of groups. Accordingly, “to benefit from the restoring strength of art and enable the skills, perceptions and relationships that have been interrupted.
SKYGD, since it has been founded, conducts projects (in cooperation with other ngo’s, local and public institutions) with groups under risk or subjected to social and/or economical exclusion. These projects are oriented towards the needs of target groups and susceptible to be adopted and applied by them.
SKYGD has conducted art workshops with children under difficult conditions, people dianosed mentally ill, prisoners and groups subjected to social and/or economical exclusion in different cities. Since 2013, the association has widened it’s scope and included every group of people who are subjected to every kind of excusion, such as women, old age people, homeless people and LGBT people.
The Main Projects of 2013:
1 - "Short Films on Prison" focuses on the prisoners' rights and their conditions in prisons.Statistics show that artistic creation especially the number of the films shot in/on prisons or about prisoners is very unsatisfying. The project aims to promote film shooting in/on prisons and raise awareness on the subject.The project will be implemented by SKYGD with the collaboration of Film and Television and/or Visual Communication Design students (6 University)in Istanbul.The target groups are students, prisoners, academicians. Panels and study visits to prisons will inform young people about the prisoners' conditions, the penal execution system in Turkey.A short film script competition will be organized, 5 scripts among them will be awarded(by a jury)to be shot.These films will be screened in the universities and the prisons.The competition and the screening will be preliminary steps to draw attention of young people, universities and the general public to the subject and be able “to see and listen the story of prisoners through the short films of young people.
2-JOIN the ACTION / “150 meters away from the civilisation” envisages three art workshops (video, stop-motion, drawing/painting-story ) with the children in Tarlabaşı (a region subject to gentrification) and an exhibition displaying the works produced during these workshops.
To promote the network of organizations concerning art workshops (with the disadvanteged groups)and projects in the member countries