British Council Turkey organizes the accessible arts festival Unlimited Forum on 2-4 February with the motto 'Art for All'. The three-day accessible festival, which will take place in and around Yapı Kredi bomontiada, will have a wide range of content from new performances to panels with local and international speakers, from workshops to concerts.
Unlimited Forum, which will start with the keynote speech of Touretteshero Co-artistic Director Jess Thom from the UK, on Thursday, February 2, followed by the interdisciplinary experiences of the Arada Company team, which was specially prepared for this festival, choreographed by Serkan Bozkurt and mostly made up of people with disabilities. will bring the world premiere of the performance theater 'Urgent!' to the audience. The performance, in which the actors and dancers will boldly share their obstacles, successes, disappointments and goals, focuses on the social exclusion experiences of disabled people and their reflection on their daily communication practices.
The second day of the festival will host panels that will enable participants to reflect on the relationship between accessibility and art. The 'What is access to this culture?' The panel will host Çiğdem Aslantaş, Founder of Bongo Art Project, Hakan Elbir, Founder of Dialogue Social Entrepreneurship Association, Zeynep Şölen Yıldız on behalf of Accessible Everything and Theater Cooperative, and Ezgi Yalınalp, Founder of Puruli Culture, Art and Access to Culture Platform.
"Is accessible art a myth?" moderated by British Council Theater and Dance Unit Director Neil Webb from the UK. In the panel, successful examples from the United Kingdom, Ukraine, Serbia and Georgia will be shared. Candoco Dance Company Youth Programs Director Kimberley Harvey, Unbeaten Path Director Anastasiya Voytyuk, Off The Frame's Director Marko Pejovic, and Tbilisi Inclusive Dance Company Founder Ketevan Zazanashvili, in the speech where successful projects in the field of culture and art all over the world will be held. will be detailed.
Disabled jazz drummer Kaan Çelen will take the stage with a trio of Volkan Topakoğlu (Double Bass) and Önder Foçan (Guitar) at the Unlimited Forum, which aims to bring the participants together with music between the panels. He will present a mini concert with pieces from his album NA-Zİ-LE, which broke new ground in the world, as well as pieces of jazz standards that have a special place for him. The last event of Friday, February 3, will take place at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Bomonti Campus. Established by dance artist, choreographer and academician Tuğçe Ulugün Tuna, 'Embodied Sections', accompanied by 12 dancers by 'Dance with Different Bodies', carries the embodied clues of the life that I cannot describe with the bodies in my dreams, in the words of Ulugün Tuna.
Unlimited Forum will present two different workshops according to their interests as of 4:13 on Saturday, February 00th. Developed and organized by the disabled illustrator, comics artist and designer Hatiye Garip, the 'Accessible Lines – Experimenting From Illustration to Visual Description One Two Three' workshop aims to make their work accessible to the blind and low-sighted individuals through visual descriptions for illustrators and illustrators, and to ensure the accessibility of illustrations. aims to focus on possible creative solutions. In the workshop, where the participants are asked to bring with them three illustrations they have drawn before, either in print or digitally, visual descriptions will be made based on these illustrations.
Led by Tuğçe Ulugün Tuna, the 'Dance with Different Bodies – The Other Place in the Body' workshop invites the participants to conduct a kinesthetic experimental study by focusing on the body as a 'bridge' in different contexts through movement.
During the festival, sign language, English-Turkish simultaneous translation and Turkish subtitles will be provided, and audio descriptions will be offered at the performances.
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