Anamur Baykuş Arts And Literature Centre

We are a social Enterprise in Anamur, Turkey.
We perform arts, educate youngs and children, especially youngs, adults and children with disabilities and from other vulnerable groups.

We try to inspire their creative side by our teachers and by hiring regional artists to teach classes in a wide variety of artistic disciplines. Besides, offering classes for children with special needs, we also have education programs for teens, adults in many branches of art. Some examples of classes we offer in our arts center are Yoga, Yoga for children with autism, Ballet Course, Intelligence games Courses, Painting, Handicraft Courses, Step-Plates, Adult Theater Courses, theater for people with autism, Creative Drama Courses, drama for children with autism, ebru, watercolor painting, Folk Dance Courses, English Teaching with Arts, Salsa, Zumba courses, Tango Course, theoratical Musical course, violin Course, Baglama/Saz Courses, Guitar courses, Digital arts courses, Web Design Course, Speed Reading Courses, dramaturgic writing, Reading Courses for people with special needs, Creative Writing Course, Tale and Story telling Courses, English Drama Course, Cartoon-drawing Courses, Basic Acting Course for people withspecial needs, Scriptwriting Course, Diction and Good Speaking Courses, English Art Workshops, English Drama Courses for people with autism German Art Workshop.
We also offer creative experiences for children with special needs like clay handicrafts lectures, Arts lectures After School and summer camps. We have also daily after-school classes for early ages, like drawing, painting, sculpture, pottery, language works, mixed media, theater, music, dance and more.
Our main goal is to to inspire, transform and enrich our community and our pupils with special needs through the arts and literature.
Baykuş Center for the Arts and Literature has programming policies that reflect our community's needs and supplements that provided by other schools and Special education and rehabilitation schools. By collaborating with local businesses and other cultural organizations we serve as a catalyst for accomplishing common community goals. We strive to make the arts accessible to as many people as possible, because we believe that the arts are essential for human development and academic success and for enriching our culture as a whole.
We had a few erasmus+ projects experiences in earlier years. Last year we developed a social platform for our erasmus+ 201-Cooperation for Innovation and the Exchange of Good Practices.

If you want to be a partner in our KA2-strategic partneship for youngs or schools please send us a PIF.
If you need a partner please try to add our Arts organization/school as a partner.
First of all, it is necessary for us to explain that, our social enterprise has been struggling in local and European level against any kind of totalitarianizm, anti-democratic applications and against any discriminations preventing people, especially people in vulnerable groups, from participating into the daily democratic life, social environment and labor markets. We know how important democracy, labor, togetherness of education and arts must go hand in hand for achieving our struggle. As the directors and members of our association, we try our best to explain people the importance of arts and its integration to all the spheres of our lives to acquire the real prosperity and democratization in all societies.

We created many KA-347, ka-201, ka-205& ka-204 projects with our 18 NGOs from Europe and our local authorities. We are open to suggestions for developing any European, local, national projects. To explain the areas, subjects we are mostly concerned about, We can mention the titles of a few projects we created, as follows:

* A New Way of Civic Engagement And Carrying It to Decision-Making Processes: Youth Grasps, Practises And Suggests About Interrelations of Musical Activities With Autism & disabilities

* Dissemination And Digital Promotion of Artistic Works - Interconnecting Digital Democracy, Arts And Critical Response Process - The Artists And Social Entrepreneurs of The Future-.

*Developing Adults' “Social Charity/Entrepreneurship" Capacities For Vulnerable groups By An E-Platform Based on Game-Like Art-Activities

* Digital Democratic Platform of Arts and Applied Democratic Online Elections: Youngsters Offer
Policymakers Solutions related with The Problems in Their Localities

Our regional concerts, which we have been made traditionally since the day we were established have become well-known. Every year, we take an active role in the art and cultural life of our region with our concerts and seminars. At least 5000 participants from our region and neighboring provinces come to our concerts and art festivals that we organize every year in our city.

We have partnerships with many schools, foundations, our regional directiorate of education, NGOs, Special education schools, local prison and rehabilitation centers and all public authorities in our locality. We want to provide our participants any opportunities to have a chance for colloborations, knowledge and cultural exchanges with people from other schools, organizations, different countries and cultures.

Our arts-school - arts-centre is a private arts school/center and our statute is a "social enterprise" and "Private Arts School".

You know, "somebody must do somethings..."

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