Ettijahat

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  • The Type Of The Organisation : Establishment
  • Year Of Incorporation :2011

Founded in 2011, Ettijahat is a cultural organisation working to promote independent culture across the Arab world. Our main goal is to activate the role of independent artists in enabling cultural, political and social change. We also seek to build a strong and authentic relationship between culture and art and all other sectors of society. We aim to achieve this by supporting artists and cultural entrepreneurs, empowering young researchers, building consensus and alliances between individuals and cultural institutions, promoting art and artists through regional and international platforms, and making art and culture more accessible to local and international communities and audiences. 

Our Vision

We aspire to build a pluralist, diverse and intellectually and artistically productive Syria, a country where access to art and culture is considered a right for every Syrian citizen. 

General Objectives

  • Improve the general ecosystem of Syrian cultural work by drafting cultural policies, identifying art, cultural and academic courses and diversifying the sources and means of funding.
  • Support young artists and the independent cultural sector by creating opportunities for production, networking, and advancement in skills, knowledge and expertise.
  • Integrate creative cultural work in the process of social change by promoting cultural initiatives that seek to improve the lives of young people and other marginalized groups most affected by political strife.

Our Values

Ensuring higher recognition of freedoms: We strive to promote freedom of expression for all artists and cultural practitioners by centring the question of freedom at the core of our work and refusing all forms of censorship. We also work to promote their safety, including when tackling issues related to gender, sexuality and LGBTQ rights, or when artists are subjected to any form of political, economic, social or intellectual marginalization.

Democratizing art and culture: We promote fair and mutual access between art producers and recipients, the free dissemination of art in public spaces and the enhancement of digital content and interaction.

Respecting artistic and cultural diversity: We design empowerment and support frameworks targeting both art producers and recipients. We establish research platforms that connect different art forms and contexts, while focusing on research and critique as a way to monitor the presence of the arts in our lives and the needs of art producers in their different environments.

Believing in the power of arts in mending vulnerabilities: We highlight the role of art and culture in creating positive change and offer spaces for discussion and art production in local communities. We seek to alleviate the plight of migrants, displaced peoples, and refugees by engaging these communities and other marginalized groups through the production and promotion of the arts.

Transparency: We adopt practices and policies in line with our values in order to secure funding and constantly strive to expand our community of beneficiaries and partners to promote freedom, diversity and independence, as well as to reject exclusion and isolation.

 

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