Women Tell Their Stories with Art!

Mavi Kalem continues to support women trying to rebuild their lives after the earthquake in Hatay.

In November 2024, a project was launched to tell women’s success stories about the difficulties, problems and solutions they experienced after the earthquake.  The project involves women telling their stories by themselves and through art, exhibiting the resulting works and publishing them in a book.

The work progresses with workshops on different themes.  In each workshop, five volunteer women work with painter and sculptor Meryem Tomak.

In the “Women tell their stories through art” workshops, women with different experiences and socio-economic backgrounds come together and work to understand their experiences through art. Meryem Tomak takes part in the workshops both as an implementer and a facilitator.

*This project is supported by the Embassy of Ireland.