The 8th Women's Art and Culture Festival, which will be organized this year with the slogan ‘We will knit the Art Revolution with Jin Jiyan Azadî Culture’, will be held in Qamishlo today and tomorrow.
After the Rojava Revolution, many festivals reflecting the culture of the peoples have been organized. The Women's Culture and Art Festival is one of these. It is a festival where women exhibit their arts and handicrafts. Organized by the Cizre Region Cultural Board and with the support of the culture and arts committees, the festival is held every year as part of the 8 March activities. Preparations have been made for more than 2 months for the festival, which will kick off today.
The slogan for the Women's Culture and Art Festival, which will be held at the Mihemed Şêxo Culture and Art Center in Qamishlo, is 'We Will Knit the Art Revolution with Jin Jiyan Azadî Culture'. The exhibited works will be in Kurdish, Arabic and Syriac. Due to the earthquake that took place on 6 February, the festival program was changed and artistic activities with entertainment content such as folklore and music were canceled.
The Women's Culture and Art Festival will feature stories, poems and articles that will be presented at the festival for the first time. Handicrafts will also be exhibited.
Our purpose is to support women
Speaking about the festival, Botan Hoşê, a member of the North-East Syria Literature Council, said: “This year, compared to previous years, preparations were made more enthusiastically. Applications to the festival were better than every other year. Our main goal is to support women. We thought about how we can help women financially and morally. It is also among our goals for women to make progress in both literary and artistic terms. We have paintings depicting the earthquake, the heroism of the YPJ and the Rojava Revolution. All women will exhibit their works to the public and prizes will be awarded at the end of the festival, tomorrow. Today, stories, articles and poems will be read. Afterwards, the movie "Berbu" by Sevinaz Evdike will be screened. The first three women who receive the prize will be selected by an Evaluation Committee, which is affiliated to the Preparatory Committee.”
Botan Hoşê said that the festival took place as a result of women's labor and the Rojava Revolution: “We want to promote and show women's ability to write. With their emotionally charged features, their perspective on life is always ahead in knitting life. Women will come together and weave the art revolution.”
