Vernissage

Location: Ioakimion Girls High School

Friday 15.11.2024

5:00 pm – 9:00 pm

We are pleased to invite you to the opening ceremony of the Memento Festival at the Ioakimion Girls High School in Balat organized in the frame of the Kite-Runner program.

Most of the artists and media activists will personally present their works created special for Memento Festival and for the venue of the former Greek Girls School.

Participating media activists and artists:

• Mathilde Melek An – Visual Artist – Turkey, France
• Şevket Akıncı – Guitarist, composer, arranger, Turkey

• Larissa Araz – Visual Artist – Turkey
• Bonoo Azizian – Vısual Artist -USA -Turkey- Afghanistan
  
• Shira Badakshi, Cartoonist,Afghanistan
• Nora Byrne – Visual artist – Turkey
• Zuhal Faizi – Writer and Media Activist – Afghanistan
• İlhami Tunç Gencer – Animation Artist – Turkey
• Talin Gülen Schenk – Visual artist – Turkey

• Lida Hamid – Photographer – Afghanistan
• Harald Hund – Filmmaker – Austria
• Maryam Mazrooei – Artist, Writer, Photographer, Journalist – Iran / Canada

• Kabir Mokamel from ArtLords, Visual Artist and Activist – USA / Afghanistan
• Shahzad Mudasır – Artist – Afghanistan / Canada
• Abdul Naser Sahebzada- Photographer- Afghanistan
  
• Franz Schubert – Digital Media Artist and Instructor at University of Applied Arts, Vienna – Austria
  
• Margarita Wenzel – Visual Artist – Germany

The public events of Memento will run until the 30th of November.

During the opening ceremony, we will offer refreshments and snacks.

Photographs and videos will be taken at the event for use on our website and social media, and in the press, and other marketing materials and publications. By entering this event, you consent to the photographing, filming and using your image for these purposes.