Kite Runner
The establishment of a media hub serves to network and acquire participants and pave the way for professionalizing media skills.
Questions about conflict situations, gender equality, and local communities will be addressed and will sensitize participants and the public online.
Organizer / Cooperation Partner
International Media Support
IMS supports local media to reduce conflict and strengthen democracy. It works in a context-sensitive manner, carefully assessing the needs of local media in each country before entering into close dialogue with local organizations and international peers
Diyalog
Diyalog is an inter-cultural association dedicated to communities, diversity, and new media. The principal objectives are the promotion of exchange and cooperation in order to carry out an intercultural understanding to strengthen as well as above all a cultural dialogue beyond borders.
YOLO Art
YOLO art is a space for entertaining, expressing, connecting, learning and exchanging experiences. The building is located in Balat in old Istanbul. YOLO art is keen to provide its service on many levels through a range of events.
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Thomas Büsch
Thomas Büsch is filmmaker and curator from Germany based in Istanbul; together with Sabine Küper-Büsch he initiated the Mahalla festival in the name of the Istanbul based association diyalog. The objectives of the association are the promotion of exchange and cooperation in order to carry out an intercultural understanding to strengthen as well as above all a cultural dialogue between communities. In 2014/2015 they established for diyalog and in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Istanbul, an extensive program under the title Searching Traces with the aim to give creative people with and without migration backgrounds the opportunity to look back on and reappraise their experiences in order to find new perspectives in a changing surrounding or in the hosting countries.
Adnan Onur Acar
Adnan Onur Acar was born in 1984 in Osmaniye. He completed his primary and secondary education in Osmaniye and his undergraduate education at Marmara University Faculty of Law. He worked as a photographer, photojournalist, translator, and editor before he started working as a lawyer in 2015.
Somaia Walizadeh
Somaia Walizadeh is an investigative journalist associated with Khillid Radio from Herat, Afghanistan.
Sabine Küper-Büsch
Sabine Küper-Büsch is a filmmaker and curator from Germany based in Istanbul; together with Thomas Büsch, she initiated the Mahalla Festival in the name of the Istanbul-based association diyalog. The objectives of the association are the promotion of exchange and cooperation in order to carry out an intercultural understanding to strengthen as well as above all a cultural dialogue between communities. Since 2008 they develop an Internet-publishing platform based on Videos called Streetwalking. In 2014/2015 they established for diyalog and in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Istanbul, an extensive program under the title Searching Traces with the aim to give creative people with and without migration backgrounds the opportunity to look back on and reappraise their experiences in order to find new perspectives in a changing surrounding or in the hosting countries.
Shahzad Mudasir
Shahzad Mudasir is a Human, Women and Refugee rights advocate Social/Humanitarian worker, and Language Instructor born and raised in Afghanistan, Social Sciences Graduate student based in Istanbul. He has been working with multicultural and very diverse teams with National and International NGOs on several projects like the Child Protection Project for Syrian non-Syrian Refugees/Immigrants implemented by Save the Children International and Zeytinburnu Municipality funded by PRM, Prospects of Economic Purposes Project for Refugees, and Host Community funded by GIZ and many more. Shahzad is very passionate about helping people in need and has been part of several research/studies about Refugees/Migrants and their inclusion in Turkish society. He has been engaging in Psycho-social and cultural activities, seminars, training, and Language Exchanges. He is interested in Arts and Culture, Photography/Videography, Podcasts, Dance, and Poetry.
