Hêvî and Yekta… Two freedom activists, the conscience of the society, members of the Martyr Sefkan Culture and Art School, two guerrillas, two artists, who take the shovel and turn whatever place in the mountaing into a stage to perform their plays.
Two mountain Kurds; Hêvî and Yekta…
Two mountain people, one from Botan and the other from Dersim, two companions, two artist comrades, two revolutionary people… 27 March is International Theater Day. It is also Hêvî's birthday and it is also the day in which Yekta set himself on fire to meet with the truth.
27 March is the Newroz of the art and the fire of the free art of the people was lit. What happened that day in 2004 widens the meaning of 27 March, adding new and free meanings to that time.
Hêvî and Yekta… Two freedom activists, the conscience of the society, members of the Martyr Sefkan Culture and and Art School, two guerrillas, two artists, who take the shovel and turn whatever place in the mountaing into a stage to perform their plays. In the Kurdistan region you can find culture and art schools and art academies, the joy of art in shaping society. They are true art fighters.
The year 2004… An important year for the Kurdish Freedom Movement…
Hêvî and Yekta… In March and August 2004 they called artists to resist those who wanted to renew the international conspiracy… They were the free artists of a people who wanted to lead a new humanity culture in Maxmur and Rojava.
“We are going through a very difficult but glorious period. It is a process where great duties are in front of us as well as great sacrifice and work, and it is necessary to embrace our duty with a greater love and passion than ever before. I will set myself on fire for both inviting friends to be a little serious about their duties, to apologize to our people, and to salute the Imrali freedom resistance of our Leader and the martyrs of Afrin and Qamishlo,” said Heval Yekta.
Hêvî and Yekta…
The revolutionary lives of these two comrades are a call for us…
Whatever is done in our art world should be done as seriously as they did it, and if we are simple, modest and honest like them, we can affect everyone very deeply. When necessary, we must learn the reality of life from children like Hêvî did. We must be committed to education, to be organized and to organize and be activists. We must act with responsibility like Yekta and turn our idea of free art into a political force like they did.
As true theater artists, we must experience the enthusiasm of recreating life freely on the stage. If we want to be ambassadors of beauty and truth like them, we must participate in the construction of a free cultural world through art. They invite us to this beautiful and free world. It is our duty to meet them again on 27 March, to enter the real play of life. To engage in that action is to be the activist of that life.
To make time meaningful and free, to be part of a nation and universal history is to fight against genocide like Hêvî Şanoger and Yekta Herekol. To claim our responsibilities, to be productive, creative and successful like them we must be mountain Kurd artists like them.
In order to have a true understanding and true intellectuals and artists, we have to love people and be passionately connected to the public, no matter how these comrades are. We learned this truth from Hêvî and Yekta. As Kurdish artists, we can become friends of Hêvî and Yekta by loving the people and being connected to them. For this, we will live honestly and comitted. In order for so much labor to achieve a permanent culture and lifestyle, we will carry out this art, the art that belongs to this society. For the Kurdish national unity and the democratic unity of the Middle East, we will create life again and we will be free.
We will always be serious when it comes to life and in our art.
