ABOUT

For ART COLONY, please visit: http://www.katadromartcolony.com

The Katadrom Arts, Culture, and Social Politics Association was founded in 2010 by a group of filmmakers, festival organisers, photographers, writers, journalists, and expatriates. Their motivation was to create a common ground for their collective and individual creative endeavours at a cross-cultural level using audio-visual media and cinema. Katadrom Art is an organisation that specialises in cultural and artistic events, capacity building, educational activities/programs, and audio-visual production.

The primary aim of the Katadrom Association is to stimulate cultural appreciation and integration by supporting artistic and cultural creativity in all its forms and to encourage dialogue among communities.

Within the Katadrom Association, the concepts of culture, art, and social policy are considered holistically rather than separately. In its projects, which encompass various categories such as festivals, youth camps, art workshops, film days, and educational programs, Katadrom places a strong emphasis on women’s rights, gender equality, anti-discrimination, the protection of vulnerable groups, and the culture of coexistence, viewing these not only as priorities but as central issues.

Katadrom Association is an institution that has taken on the general coordination, curation, and consultancy of film programs and events, primarily in the fields of cinema and media. It organizes national and international projects and cultural, art, and social policy education events in collaboration with numerous organisations.

Furthermore, over the past ten years, we have been involved in capacity building, media, new technologies, event management, empowerment training, and development for Human Rights Defenders, Adult Educators, NGO Workers, Refugee Children, LGBTI+ Parents, and Youth.

Our specific expertise in training and skills in communication and new media enable us to build strong connections between different social groups. We work with a wide variety of social groups, ranging from political and racial groups to age and gender groups.

Katadrom Kültür Sanat ve Sosyal Politikalar Derneği / Katadrom Arts, Culture and Social Politics Association is an organisation which specialises in cultural and artistic events, capacity building, educational activities/programs and audio-visual production.

We believe that our previous educational project, professional, high experienced team and strong partnership with the relates NGO’s is the key to carry out a successful and sustainable project.

We have been working on capacity building, media, new technologies, event managing, empowerment training and development in 10 years for Human Right Defenders, Adult Educators, NGO’ Workers, Refugee Children, LGBTI+ Parents, Youth.
During that time we have been able to realize empowerment and capacity building project for a variety of different social groups, from political and racial groups to age and gender groups.

Our specific knowledge of training and skills in communication and new media enable us to strong ties between different social groups. We work with a wide variety of different social groups, from political and racial groups to age and gender groups. We build capacity in Audio-visual production, social media, empowerment training and development, persuasive storytelling.

Katadrom had and has been having many volunteers and interns mostly from Germany as well from France, Italy, Turkey, USA, Bulgaria, Russia, Spain, Argentina, Brazil, Iran, Denmark, UK, Belgium, Ukraine, Syria and Ireland.

Katadrom Association has successfully carried out many international events and projects to date, both with its own resources and with the contributions of private or public supporters.

Although there is no public or private institution behind the Katadrom that supports it, even with limited and temporary financial support, it has signed projects of almost the same scale and number as some well-established culture and art institutions in Turkey, which are backed by large private companies and holdings.

Katadrom is the only institution in Turkey’s history to hold a public movie premiere at Halki/ Heybeliada Seminary.

Katadrom is the member of the Accessible Film Festival Network who aims to make culture and arts accessible to everyone and to create alternative channels for the institutions and people.
https://www.kultureerisim.com/tr/

Katadrom is the member of the Anna Lindh Foundation (ALF) network founded by Euro-Mediterranean Partnership.
https://annalindhturkey.net/uyeprofili/173/katadrom-sanat-kultur-ve-sosyal-politika-toplulugu

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Katadrom,

Has been organizing International Changing Perspectives Short Film Festival (https://icpsff.com) for four years with a an international team of interns and volunteers and encourages them to organize events for cinema and new audiovisual technologies as well as make their own short films.

is one of the partners of “Cine-Train Film Workshops for Educators” supported by EU Grundtvig Fund and partnered by Kyrnea International, A Ba Quo and Moviemento, in Barcelona, Berlin, Paris and Istanbul between 2013-2015. It is an international audiovisual workshop program for educators working in all fields of adult education. Participants are taught to produce videos and learn how to use cinema and audiovisual in their educational work. More than 100 people attended to the workshops as participants in which 33 short films have been created. https://katadromcinetrainproject.wordpress.com/

Organized projects “Common Grounds From the Past”, “Between War and Peace – German-Turkish Relationships Then and Today” and Youth summer camps together with ASF (Action Reconciliation for Peace) within the Erasmus+, Youth Mobility Program. Participants made short documentaries about their experiences.

Attended Young European Film Forum for Cultural Diversity (yeff2015.eu) as one of the partners http://www.yeff2015.eu/language/en/about/.

Organized Turkish Independent Film Screening for three years in Istanbul.

Is partner of City-Link 2016 http://city-link.org/

Co-organized some editions of International Crime and Punishment Film Festival, International Malatya Film Festival, Randevous Istanbul Film Festival, Which Human Rights Film festival and International Edirne Film Festival.

Organized free Turkish Language Meetings for 5 years for more than 350 people who live in Istanbul to give a chance to practice their Turkish, with Turkish and international speakers.

Organized “Katadrom Turkish Movie Nights ” and screened recent independent films from Turkey with English subtitles and brought together film makers and audience together after screenings for Q&A sessions. More than 1000 film lovers attended to the screenings.

Organized free workshops of photography, handcraft, cuisine, creative writing, mixed arts, Roman dance, short film making, dubbing, radio program making and more workshops to more than 500 international and national students and people in Istanbul.

SOME OF PAST AND ONGOING PROJECTS
Cine-Train Film Making For Educators (cinetrainproject.com)
International Changing Perspectives Short Film Festival (icpsff.com)
Lost and Found Film Days (https://lostfoundfilmdays.com)
Cinema Festival of Eskisehir (www.essinema.com)
Young European Film Forum for cultural diversity (yeff2015.eu)
Common Grounds from the Past (commongroundfromthepast.com) (young People with Turkish background who live in Europe)
Between war and peace – German-Turkish relationships then and today
Which Human Rights Film Festival (in corporation with ASK)
Documentarist ((in corporation with ASK)
Crime and Punishment Film Festival
Katadrom Turkish Language Meetings
Katadrom Turkish Movie Nights
Stranger – Creative Writing Workshop and Competition
Stranger – Photography Workshop and Competition
The New Cinema Movement Movie Screenings