An art exhibition has opened at Maxmur camp in southern Kurdistan. The exhibition was conceived by the camp's education committee and includes works from the Şehîd Delîla arts and crafts studio, which was established by the Maxmur Women's Foundation.
An art exhibition opened in the Maxmur refugee camp in southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq) on Saturday. The exhibition was conceived by the camp's education committee and includes works from the Şehîd Delîla arts and crafts studio, which was launched by the Maxmur Women's Foundation. More than a hundred students have already been trained in the atelier and teach each other. Every year on the birthday of Abdullah Öcalan, who turns 73 on April 4, a new exhibition of paintings and handicrafts is held.
Among the guests at the exhibition were students of all ages and from the Hêvî Center for Children with Autism and Down Syndrome (ku. Navenda Hêvî, Center of Hope).
Hêvî Buldan has been working in the studio for about ten years. She started as a student and now teaches herself. She says that she has been interested in painting since childhood and joined the studio at the suggestion of a teacher. In her paintings, she mostly focuses on social events, with an emphasis on women. The works created in the studio have already been exhibited in Hewlêr (Erbil), Sulaymaniyah and Germany.
