Human beings are the only living creatures on earth who need to create their own culture and are compelled to build it. Throughout this journey, our experiences have shown that food, in order to exist, and art, in order to pass things on, have been the most fundamental means of expressing ourselves from the past to the present. Through art and food, humans have learned to express themselves to their era and to pass their existence on to the future. (This also refers to the art of living with art.) Silüet’s mission is to bring together these seemingly separate phenomena and to remind us that they form a whole. By building bonds through our intergenerational interaction on this journey, it aims to offer an experience that helps people mirror their own lives. To this end, its aim is to provide the production, environment, products and communication that help people connect with the universe, as a means of enabling them to express themselves through the most fundamental elements they need in life. “Batik” is a dyeing method carried out on fabric using a resist technique. In wax batik, this resist stage is done with a mixture of beeswax & paraffin. In the 4th century BC, after the Greeks invaded India, they took many of the different textile products found in India back to their homeland on their return, which led to fabrics produced with this kind of technique becoming known in Europe as well. Increasing migration and expanding trade played a role in spreading this technique across all of Asia. The wax batik technique prevents colors from bleeding into one another. In your design, you cover each color, or the background you have dyed in gradations, by applying the beeswax-paraffin mixture over it, and then apply the other colors. Finally, you apply the darkest shade of the design. When the darkest color is applied in the final layer, it brings out the contour lines. Workshop Leader: Ceydâ Candaş To buy tickets for Sunday, click here.

Throughout the ages, shoes have been used both as a necessity and as a means of display. They have constantly taken on different forms and designs. In this workshop, we will focus on new functions and new designs. How? We will design shoes for fantastic creatures! For a vampire, is style more important, or comfort? And what about a troll who walks for miles on its little legs? After chatting about fictional characters and identifying their needs, we will sketch our designs on paper and then make clay models of them. Number of participants: 10-12 Participants Duration: 60 Minutes Materials: Paper, Colored Pencils, Odds and Ends, Fantastic Creature Cards, Modeling Clay Goals: 2D and 3D Design Thinking, Teamwork, Creative Thinking, Problem-Solving Skills Workshop Leader: OyunMu To register, click here.

Country: Türkiye 102 minutes Genre: Drama, Documentary Black-and-White Director: Halit Refiğ Writer: Orhan Kemal Adaptation: Turgut Özakman Cast: Tanju Gürsu, Filiz Akın, Özden Çelik, Pervin Par, Cüneyt Arkın Cinematographer: Çetin Gürtop   The film tells the story of the struggle of a family who comes to Istanbul from Kahramanmaraş in search of a better life. Every member of the family, chasing the desires Istanbul stirs in them, puts everything they have at risk: their jobs, their lives, their honor... Only the youngest sibling, Kemal, is wary of this city whose streets are said to be paved with gold. While the others rush for gold, he invests in himself; he goes to university and broadens his cultural horizons. Haybeci, who finds his way by cunning rather than intelligence, manages to climb the economic ladder but fails to become a true city dweller; caught in between, he gradually turns into a crude caricature. To register, click here.

At this event, we come together with former employees of the Sümerbank Leather and Shoe Factory. We tour Kundura Hafıza’s exhibition, “Kundura’s Memory: A World Fit into a Factory,” guided by factory retirees, and hear firsthand accounts of social and cultural life in the Sümerbank years, production at the Factory and everyday life from those who witnessed it. After exploring together the era’s approach to domestic production, we will have the chance to chat with Sümerbank retirees. To register, click here.