Free Saturday Workshops & Collective Learning
Since the opening of our Education & Participation Space, Kunstinstituut Melly has become a vibrant place for workshops, lectures, and collective learning experiences. Every Saturday, we organize free workshops open to everyone, where creativity, connection, and personal expression are at the heart of the experience.
Our Saturday workshops provide a space for experimentation and connection. In January 2026, during Nurdan Ariöz’s workshops, participants engaged with storytelling, visual arts, color, drawing, writing, and movement, contributing to a collective story archive: a living artwork that preserves each person’s presence and voice. In February 2026, during Sabrina Schoop’s workshops in Poetic Diaspora, participants explore language, words, and personal memories, creating poetic fragments that weave together identity, memory, and multilingual expression.
The space itself acts as a hub for learning, encounter, and collective imagination, where participants meet, share ideas, and experiment together. Whether through individual or collaborative practice, the workshops make the city’s unseen stories visible and memorable.
Alongside the Saturday workshops, the Education & Participation Space hosts CLiP Open sessions, community-led projects, and other creative learning opportunities. It functions as a hub for encounter, exchange, and collective imagination, where participants explore, share, and connect through creativity.
Free Saturday Workshops with Sabrina Schoop — February 2026
Time: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM | Location: Education & Participation Space, Kunstinstituut Melly
In February, the Saturday workshops led by Sabrina Schoop in Poetic Diaspora give participants the space to experiment with language, words, and personal memories. Participants work with words from multiple languages, as well as personal, imagined, or inherited memories, exploring how language moves between worlds and creates new meaning. Contributions are transformed through writing, cutting, rearranging, and visualizing into poetic fragments, weaving together language, identity, and memory.
These workshops are accessible to all ages.
Workshop Schedule - February
Workshop #1 – Language as Home: Saturday 7 February 2026
Workshop #2 – Fragmented Memories: Saturday 14 February 2026
Workshop #3 – Language in Form: Saturday 21 February 2026
Workshop #4 – Multilingual Poetry: Saturday 28 February 2026
Free Saturday Workshops with Nurdan Ariöz — January 2026
Time: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM | Location: Education & Participation Space, Kunstinstituut Melly
In January, join a special Saturday series led by Nurdan Ariöz, exploring the unseen stories of the city. Participants bring personal memories and fleeting moments—sounds, scents, conversations—that are transformed through collage, drawing, color, writing, and intuitive movement. Contributions come together in a collective story archive—a living artwork that preserves each person’s presence and voice. Each session also offers the chance to create a small personal keepsake, a symbolic “key” reflecting your own experiences.
These workshops are accessible to all ages and participants with limited language skills.
Workshop Schedule - January
Workshop #1 – Personal Story Archive: Saturday 3 January 2026
Workshop #2 – Key to a Memory: Saturday 10 January 2026
Workshop #3 – The Colors of Silence: Saturday 17 January 2026
Workshop #4 – A New Key Story: Saturday 24 January 2026
Workshop #5 – Letter to Yourself: Saturday 31 January 2026
Meet the Artists & Educators
Sabrina Schoop investigates language as a living, shifting medium that connects identity, memory, and imagination. In Poetic Diaspora, she guides participants to experiment with words, visual forms, and multilingual expression, encouraging playful, reflective, and collaborative approaches to storytelling. Her practice emphasizes accessibility, creativity, and the creation of meaningful collective and personal archives.
Nurdan Ariöz is a multidisciplinary artist working across photography, text, ceramics, textiles, and screen printing. Her practice explores “in-between spaces”: moments where courage arises, silence whispers stories, and unseen talent shines. She works in museums, classrooms, and public spaces, creating opportunities for participants to find their voice and explore their own creative paths.