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• Iranian regime detains Kurdish director 

  Iranian regime forces detained a Kurdish director named Reza Elayî and his aftermath is unknown.
• First Culture and Poetry Festival kicks off in Qamishlo 

  The Culture and Poetry Festival organized by the Cizîr Canton Intellectuals Union began with the slogan “Poetry is the Star of Literature”.
• Amed Metropolitan Municipality to promote free cinema screenings and theatre plays in September 

  The Amed Metropolitan Municipality will organize free cinema, theater screenings, Dengbej and other concerts throughout September.
• KCDK-E calls for participation in 32nd International Kurdish Cultural Festival in Frankfurt 

  The European umbrella organization of the Kurdish diaspora, KCDK-E, called on Kurds across Europe to go to Frankfurt am Main on 21 September for the 32nd international Kurdish Cultural Festival.
• 7th Tabqa Literature Gathering enters final day 

  The 7th Tabqa Literature Gathering, held with the slogan "Literature is history and life", will end today.
• KON-MED calls for participation in the International Kurdish Culture Festival 

  KON-MED called for participation in the 32nd International Kurdish Culture Festival on 21 September and announced the departure times and places of the buses.
• ‘With the festival, we wanted to show the colour and identity of women’ 

  Mizgîn Çolaq, member of the Organising Committee of the Martyr Berçem Festival and member of the Hîlala Zêrîn Movement Coordination, said: “We wanted to show the colour and identity of women in a wider way with the festival we organised in Kobanê.”
• Nearly 300 film directors sued in Iran in two years 

  The spokesperson of the House of Cinema in Iran announced that nearly 300 film directors have been sued and their work rights have been cancelled since the ‘Jin, Jiyan, Azadi’ uprising that started in September 2022.
• New term of Kurdish language courses starts in Switzerland 

  Kurdish language courses started in Winterthur city in Zurich Canton of Switzerland.
• 7th Gathering of writers kicks off tomorrow in Tabqa 

  The Tabqa Culture and Arts Council is preparing to organize the 7th Gathering of writers tomorrow, 10 September. The meeting will last 3 days, and will be attended by more than 40 writers from across the region.
• KDP doesn't allow artists Emel Mathlouthi and Şadi Xelami to cross into Northern and Eastern Syria 

  The KDP did not allow artists Emel Mathlouthi and Şadi Xelami to cross into Northern and Eastern Syria to attend the festival in Kobanê.
• Women's Culture and Art Festival in Kobanê 

  The second Martyr Berçem Women's Culture and Art Festival organised by the women's cultural movement Hîlala Zêrîn is taking place in Kobanê. The organisers see the festival as a powerful response to the attacks by dictatorial regimes against cultures.
• Ban and confiscation decision on book by Gültan Kışanak 

  The Izmir 4th Criminal Court of Peace has issued a ban and seizure order on the book "The Purple Color of Kurdish Politics" written by politician Gültan Kışanak.
• Diyarbakır No. 5 Prison should be turned into a Memory Museum, says civil society organization 

  Haluk Yıldızhan from the Memory Museum Initiative Group requested that Diyarbakır No. 5 Prison be turned into a Memory Museum. He said that authorities should collaborate with those who lived through that period for the design of the museum.
• ‘Everyone should speak, write, think and live in Kurdish’ 

  The Kurdish Language Platform pointed out that the new school year is a period of assimilation of Kurdish children and said, “Everyone should speak, write, think and live in Kurdish.”
• 2nd Martyr Berçem Women's Culture and Art Festival kicks off today in Kobanê 

  The 2nd Martyr Berçem Women's Culture and Art Festival will kick off today in Kobanê.
• Call for participation in the International Kurdish Festival in Frankfurt 

  Co-chairs of KCDK-E and KON-MED called for participation in the 32nd International Kurdish Culture and Art Festival against isolation and occupation and said, “All our people should embrace their values, country and culture.”
• Summer School for Music and Theater in Rojava sees participation of dozens of students 

  Dozens of young people spent three months intensively engaged in cultural education in the Summer School for Music and Theater.
• 5th Children's Festival continues in Raqqa 

  The 5th Children's Festival is underway in Raqqa.
• Call for participation in the National Kurdish Cultural Festival against isolation and occupation  

  FCDK-KAWA called for participation in the 32nd National Kurdish Cultural Festival against isolation and occupation attacks.
• Kurdish Cultural Festival held in Sweden 

  At the Kurdish Cultural Festival held in Sweden on 1 September World Peace Day, participants called for freedom for the Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan and saluted the guerrilla resistance.
• 4th Merdoso Festival in Hesekê promotes Syriac culture 

  The 4th Merdoso Festival held in Hesekê began with the participation of six music and halay groups.
• Concert in solidarity with Öcalan and all Kurdish political prisoners in Paris 

  Preparations are underway for a major solidarity concert in Paris in support of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan and all Kurdish political prisoners in Turkey.
• Kurdish Culture and Art Festival starts in Stockholm 

  Stockholm will host the Kurdish Culture and Art Festival from 1 September.
• Preparatory committe calls for participation in European Kurdish Culture Festival in Frankfurt 

  Preparations have been completed for the European Kurdish Culture Festival to be held in Frankfurt on 21 September. The Preparatory Committee called for strong participation in the festival against isolation, genocidal and repressive policies.