Free Saturday Workshop #3 — The Colors of Silence

Free Saturday Workshops at Kunstinstituut Melly

Education & Participation Space

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 offer space for experimentation and connection. Participants explore storytelling, visual arts, color, drawing, writing, and movement, contributing to a collective story archive—a living artwork preserving each person’s presence and voice. Each session is also an opportunity to make a small personal keepsake: a symbolic “key” inviting reflection on your own experiences.

The Education & Participation Space serves as a hub for learning, exchange, and collective imagination, where participants meet, share ideas, and explore new forms of creation together.

Workshop Series — Nurdan Ariöz

In January 2026, the Saturday program features a special series led by Nurdan Ariöz. This workshop series builds on her project Key Stories, exploring the “in-between space” where meaning emerges in encounters.

Participants bring personal memories, a sound, a smell, a conversation, or a fleeting moment, which are expressed through collage, drawing, color, writing, and intuitive movement, and compiled in a collective story archive. The result is a growing artwork where individual voices come together into a living whole.

In addition to contributing to the collective archive, participants create a small personal object to take home—a tangible reminder of what has been shared and created.

The workshops are accessible to all ages and participants with limited language skills. Facilitators provide oral support, visual translation, and adapted prompts to ensure everyone can participate fully.

Workshop #3 — The Colors of Silence

What remains when words fall short? In this workshop, you explore emotions and experiences that are difficult to express verbally. Guided by music, you work with color and movement to express a feeling without language.

After this intuitive process, you write one sentence: “This is what I could not say.”
This combination of image, movement, and text is added to the story archive. As a tangible reminder, you take home a fragment of your work: a quiet key to what remained unspoken.

Next workshops in this series

Workshop #4 — A New Key Story
Combine stories from the archive to create a new narrative.

Workshop #5 — Letter to Yourself
Reflect and conclude the series with a personal card to yourself.