Free Saturday Workshop #4 — Multilingual Poetry (Poetic Diaspora)

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.

In January 2026, the Saturday workshops led by Nurdan Ariöz in Key Stories gave participants the space to explore personal memories, images, and sounds. These contributions came together in a collective story archive and small tangible objects, inviting reflection on their own experiences and meaning.

In February 2026, the Saturday workshops led by Sabrina Schoop in Poetic Diaspora will give participants the space to experiment with language, words, and personal memories.

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

Workshop Series — Sabrina Schoop

Kunstinstituut Melly will host in February 2026 a special workshop series led by Sabrina Schoop. In Poetic Diaspora, language is explored as something that moves between worlds. The series focuses on the ways words, memories, and experiences come together and generate new meanings.

Participants work with words from different languages as well as personal, imagined, or inherited memories. By writing, cutting, rearranging, and visualizing, poetic fragments emerge in which language, identity, and memory intertwine. Each session approaches language from a different perspective, allowing space for experimentation, interpretation, and personal expression.

The workshop series requires no prior knowledge and is accessible to anyone interested in language, identity, and multilingualism. Poetic Diaspora provides a safe space to explore what ‘home’ can mean, how memories can be read, and how poetry can serve as a bridge between places, times, and people.

Workshop #4 — Multilingual Poetry

The final session focuses on multilingual poetry. Words from different languages are placed side by side, translated, or intentionally left untranslated. Participants explore how multilingualism can act as a poetic force and open up new meanings.