A rich workshop programme and a Maker Space workshop await participants.
Held for the fifth time with the aim of creating the right climate for creative new generations to emerge, the Istanbul Children and Youth Art Biennial takes place from 19 April to 23 May 2018 under the concept “Here and Now!” Alongside numerous workshops, the Biennial Programme features a specially designed area for the Maker Space, added this year. In the Maker Space workshop, children take part in fun activities involving technology design, coding, Arduino, robotics and other technologies.
Throughout the Istanbul Children and Youth Art Biennial, a wide range of workshops with different content and goals are offered for children, young people, teachers and adults. The workshops are held with the support of more than 40 NGOs, universities, artists and arts institutions from Turkey and abroad that are experts in their fields. By bringing teachers, students and parents together with people and institutions from Turkey and abroad who are making a difference in art and education, the workshops make up the Biennial’s sharing of know-how.
Creative technologies in the Maker Space
The Maker Space workshop, one of the Biennial’s workshops, was designed as a separate programme within the 5th Istanbul Children and Youth Art Biennial. In the specially designed Maker Space area set up at the Biennial’s main venue, children gain experience of creative technologies and are introduced to a series of activities that enable them to become producers rather than consumers of technology. In this part of the Biennial, children take part in fun activities involving technology design, coding, Arduino, robotics and other technologies.
The Biennial’s workshops offer children and young people a great variety of activities, led by artists, academics and experts, in which they can experience a range of art disciplines and subjects such as painting, printmaking, stop motion, drama, storytelling, sculpture, children’s rights, the environment, ecology, living together, meetings with artists and writers, literature workshops and dance.
For adults, the Biennial primarily offers workshops that develop teachers’ professional skills. Changing models of art and creativity education around the world are presented in workshops by experts from Turkey and abroad. The Biennial also includes various workshops open to parents and anyone interested in art.
Raising the artists of the future
One of the largest organisations of its kind in the world, the Istanbul Children and Youth Art Biennial creates a space for sharing grounded in multiculturalism on a global scale, enabling different geographies and cultures to be expressed through the eyes and aesthetics of children. Children and young people, who can create work in many fields at the Biennial, from performance to dance and from video art to sculpture, also lead the way in building effective intercultural communication.
Enriched by the exhibitions, concerts, events and workshops of students on their way to becoming the producers and audiences of arts and culture of the future, the Istanbul Children and Youth Art Biennial is followed by a wide audience of writers, artists, art lovers, teachers, students, parents and members of the press. Previous Biennials, held at a variety of venues across Istanbul including its ferries, squares, railway stations, warehouses, galleries and museums, have been visited by 160,000 people.
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