CULTURE - ART

The Culture and Art Committee of al-Raqqa Civil Council is preparing to open Center for Culture and Art to revive the culture heritage in al-Raqqa.

Women who were not affected by the environment and criticism which they were subjected to and resisted the fusion and disintegration policies that threatened their Kurdish culture and identity, and inherited the traditional costumes from their mothers and inherited them to their children rejecting the modernity.

The Martyr Yekita Hergul Academy for Culture and Art in Tirbespiyê district completed a course for music education in which 16 trainees participated during a celebration.

15 children from Afrin expressed, through 110 drawings and manual works, what Afrin witnessed of aggression by the Turkish occupation army and mercenaries, highlighting the culture of the people of the region. They said, "We will transfer our culture from generation to generation and the enemies will not be able to erase it."

The Cultural and Art Movement opened with its first cultural event in Fafin district in al –Shahba canton a center called "The Martyr Akhin Center."

A story embodies the scenario of a short documentary talks about a child from Afrin was displaced and has enforced to overcome the difficulties to reach the neighborhood of Sheikh Maksoud in search of his dreams.

The most important thing for a people when it is displaced from its homeland is food and shelter, but in al-Shahba it is different because the people of Afrin create hope and life from nothing, including the opening of the Library of the Age to raise awareness challenging the occupation force

The children of Afrin canton who live in al-Shahba canton have expressed their love for the leader of the Kurdish people Abdullah Ocalan, through drawings, shown at an exhibition.

The victories of Women's Protection Units(YPJ) fighters against mercenaries inspired him to draw a painting suggestive of democratic Syria. The sculptor and painter Jamal Abdel Salam, who faced many an atrocity by Daesh, said he saw the coexistence in Rojava and the north-eastern regions of Syria.

Copies of the works of Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Ocalan were presented at the Beirut International Arab Book Fair at its 62nd edition, with participation of 245 publishing houses from around the world.

Mullah Mahmoud Sabri, one of the most prominent Kurdish writers in Rojava, devoted 40 years of his life to serving the Kurdish cause. He says that the Kurds live blessed days during their revolution and his wishes have come true.

The Culture and Art Committee of al Raqqa Civil Council in the city of al-Raqqa is working to open a public national library for the purpose of reviving al-Raqqa's culture and heritage through its works.